[uconnectlol]

If it has software in it, it's bad.

As a hacker like any other who realized that all supposedly ultra safe American quality (TM) software in mission critical applications is in fact less secure on average than random amateur projects, I have been worried about software in vehicles for 20 years. I correctly predicted that it will lead to remote control vulnerabilities such as the uConnect vulnerability disclosed a decade later. There are obviously more of such vulnerabilities out there, just nobody is researching this. I also suggest people start looking at HVAC.

In 2015, some security researchers found a vulnerability in the Chrysler Uconnect software which allowed them to connect to the car's IP address (yes, each car had an IP address, which you can't get rid of), and control the vehicle (as in actually control it). There were 1.5 million vehicles IIRC that were vulnerable to this. So if a bad guy found it first he could have controlled all those vehicles at once from the comfort of his home, probably causing 10% of them to crash and kill people (given that 1/10 of your average modern driver would probably panic (or not panic but still fuck up) from the slightest surprise on the road).

I also am of the opinion that people regularly die from software faults in vehicles, but we just haven't figured this out yet.

What is NASA/JPL rules? Some more misra C crap where it's just making the code more "readable"? Most "software engineers" have extremely wide gaps in their understandings of basic things from programming, to math, to physics. The problem has much more to do with this than cute little best practices recommendations.