Comment by jackdoe

an interesting article gibbitz linked in a dup post

https://www.edn.com/toyotas-killer-firmware-bad-design-and-i...

> Embedded software used to be low-level code we’d bang together using C or assembler. These days, even a relatively straightforward, albeit critical, task like throttle control is likely to use a sophisticated RTOS and tens of thousands of lines of code.