[creshal]

A friend of mine works for VW's engine computer division. Yes, those engine computers. After all I've heard of their development methods (or lack thereof), I'm surprised the engines even start more often than one time out of ten.

[72deluxe]

My VW Golf has a bug where the driver's side door will be completely unresponsive after starting the ignition, with all the lights on the door being off too. After 5 to 10 seconds it will become responsive, which is a bit annoying if you're trying to open the windows to clear the damp mist on them, as you can't....

Also, if during normal routine you run through all four electric windows to close them (so passenger, driver, passenger rear, driver rear) in that order, you hear the solenoids click in a COMPLETELY different order. I am not sure if it is prioritising the messages in some way but the order that the windows "click" is not the order I press the buttons.

Also, I can get the CD player to crash.

Such minor noticeable issues make me think about the quality of the more important bits somewhat.

The breakdown on Toyota's safety code was interesting; and frightening really.

[qaq]

Care to elaborate? Kernel developers are not practising SCRUM or TDD yet are shipping a fairly stable product.

[creshal]

But they do know what a VCS is, and they don't re-invent lint because they want to ship broken code and need to only check for 2-3 minor issues while leaving the rest alone, as they need to rely on "magic" code exploiting undefined behaviour in certain hardware+compiler combinations.