Computer Code an Increasingly Precious E.V. Commodity

Post by thwarted » Sun, Jan 23, 2011, 5:30 AM UTC

getpost wrote: post #2

"While the French carmaker, which has a partnership with Nissan, maker of the Leaf, has said no crucial technology leaked, the stakes in automotive intellectual property are high, experts say. And the valuables are not blueprints or styling sketches, but the huge volume of computer instructions required by these cars: the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid uses about 10 million lines of computer code to shunt power seamle…

Any idea how many lines of code it takes to get to the moon, or LEO? Can we agree that at least, at a conceptual level, a moon shot is more complex than whatever the Boeing 787 or the Chevy Volt is doing?

Cheap shot: are they including test cases from code Oracle currently owns that are not actually distributed/run in each car?

Post by dominictarr » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 3:35 AM UTC

thwarted wrote: post #11

getpost wrote: post #2

"While the French carmaker, which has a partnership with Nissan, maker of the Leaf, has said no crucial technology leaked, the stakes in automotive intellectual property are high, experts say. And the valuables are not blueprints or styling sketches, but the huge volume of computer instructions required by these cars: the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid uses about 10 million lines of computer code to shunt power seamle…

Any idea how many lines of code it takes to get to the moon, or LEO? Can we agree that at least, at a conceptual level, a moon shot is more complex than whatever the Boeing 787 or the Chevy Volt is doing? Cheap shot: are they including test cases from code Oracle currently owns that are not actually distributed/run in each car?

a code for a moon shot is probably actually simpler than flying a jet or driving a car (at least in 1969)

your out of the atmosphere in a few ten seconds (if you havn't exploded yet) and then there is very little to interfere with you (vaccum, earth gravity, moon gravity)

however, cars and airplanes are constantly interacting with their complex, messy environment.

clearly, the 10,000,000 lines of code figure includes the operating system.

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