The Toyota recall may be a harbinger of things to come in the auto industry, where vehicle electronics are getting more and more complex. This article on Discovery.com takes a look at the amount of code used on vehicles today and compares it to other tranportation like the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner. Crazy!

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The avionics system in the F-22 Raptor, the current U.S. Air Force frontline jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, scheduled to become operational in 2010, will require about 5.7 million lines of code to operate its onboard systems. And Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, scheduled to be delivered to customers in 2010, requires about 6.5 million lines of software code to operate its avionics and onboard support systems. These are impressive amounts of software, yet if you bought a premium-class automobile recently, ”it probably contains close to 100 million lines of software code,” says Manfred Broy, a professor of informatics at Technical University, Munich, and a leading expert on software in cars. All that software executes on 70 to 100 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs) networked throughout the body of your car.

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