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by ryao 3708 days ago
Preemptive multitasking means that infinite loops in userland software do not lock the CPU. Everything that anyone would cal an app is run on a system that does preemptive multitasking, so it is not a problem. Presumably, the dashboard console computer is separate from the many other computers in the car for reliability purposes. If it is not, Telsa Motors would have really messed up.