The Perils Of Autonomous Driving And 'Software On Wheels'

You likely try to keep your car in tip-top shape. You change your oil, make sure your tires are roadworthy, give your engine regular tune-ups, etc. But what most drivers don't realize is that with today's advanced motor vehicles, that's only half the job. The most crucial elements of today's cars can't be kicked, tightened or oiled. While a quick peek under the hood may have once sufficed to ensure that everything is humming along nicely, virtually all the critical functions in today's cars that were once exclusively mechanical are now controlled by hundreds of onboard computers running tens of millions of lines of code.