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These are not well educated programmers. They are probably run of the mill undereducated software engineers from an outsourcing company. They do not recognize the technical issue here, albeit report an ethical issue.

Companies like Toyota generally outsource software development to other companies like Bosch. Bosch employs a bunch of programmers in Bangalore who are just out of college, and pay them peanuts to develop a safety critical system.