The writer of this article starts right off by making a fool of himself, then continues to add on to it.
With over 100 years of car building under their belt, car manufacturers still cannot make a car that doesn't kill thousands of people every year when used as intended.
Now imagine the death toll if all of the hackers out there had instead decided to try to overcome the safety systems of cars!
I'm not saying that there isn't too much buggy software being released. I'm just saying that the writer of this article has made an analogy that is in direct contradiction of what he was intending.