[SystemSafety] Looking for information about safety-critical software faults in road vehicles

[Steve Tockey]

Here is one that affect my car:

³the current software could result in high temperatures on certain
transistors and possibly damage them. When it fails, the error forces the
car into failsafe mode. Toyota says that in rare circumstances, it could
even shut the hybrid system down while the car is being driven²

See 
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/12/toyota-recalling-1-9m-prius-models-globa
lly/

You will have to patch back together the URL as Outlook (in it¹s
infinitesimally small wisdom) split across lines. . .


Note also that there is discussion of a software failure in the braking
system of earlier Prius models in that same article.



‹ steve



-----Original Message-----
From: systemsafety <systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
on behalf of Martyn Thomas <martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk>
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 2:10 AM
To: "systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de"
<systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: [SystemSafety] Looking for information about safety-critical
software faults in road vehicles

Other than the "uncommanded acceleration" reports and the remote control
of vehicles by researchers, can anyone give me details of
safety-critical software faults discovered in road vehicle software?

I well understand that manufacturers may have corrected such faults (or
not) without a recall or publicity and that details may be very
sensitive. I will give strong assurances of confidentiality - I'm just
trying to understand the scale of known issues.

Martyn