One of the reasons I don’t see network updates as a silver bullet. Ideally, you’d have some way to also update via USB, even on a bricked system, but well - few things are designed that way since it’s extra effort. I should know, I’ve worked on a few myself though outside the automotive world. An auto update rollback process would solve problems like this too, for what that’s worth.
I think this will become more common as automakers stumble through becoming tech companies or whatever. I’m actually surprised Tesla hasn’t botched an update yet, regressions aside.
I don’t think I want my car to have OTA updates
We had the Acura bug, it was some programmer didn’t include a table of values. The work around to set clock was wait until exactly 1 pm, disconnect and reconnect battery, clock would default to 1 pm.
Now let’s say this were an update for autonomous driving instead of infotainment…
This is why I hate the idea of those cars that are always connected. With it comes the burden of the never ending cycle of pushing security updates along with the potential to brick/break your car. Imaging that shit when you are out of warranty, I’d be livid!
If only literally anyone could have seen this coming with this always connected bullshit. My car doesn’t need OTA updates because my car doesn’t need to be that loaded with software that it requires them.
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It doesn’t matter how good your process is. There is always some risk of this kind of thing. But that’s why you do staged releases first to consumer-test devices, then widening, as a final check.
I’d lose it if that happened and you couldn’t access HVAC or audio. Holy…
Nerds
does no one else think rivians are ugly as fvck?
I work beside a Rivian showroom. Will be interesting to see how many of them get bricked.
American quality.
This is the problem with OTA on things like cars. They “whoops” and now your (in this case very expensive) car is dead. “Sorry boss, I can’t come to work my car won’t go… yeah I know it’s brand new… yeah it totally pulled a Windows move with an update making it worse.”
Their trucks are ugly and overpriced.
There’s a reason why I dislike tech companies making cars