Reply to post: Re: Well, I can name one that cost a fortune to fix

Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: Well, I can name one that cost a fortune to fix

A guy I know worked for a major car company and they had a similar issue, some absolute idiot at an outsourced agency had got a mix of units (km & miles) in use (probably did not even drive) and it was not discovered until cars were in the showroom and being sold. Result was a very expensive recall for firmware to be fixed given the legal implications of telling a driver the were only doing 50 (mph) in an 80 (km/h) zone so they had a another 30 to go if they wanted.

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