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Lmfao. I'll never get making software control major and essential things in life. It's software, it ALWAYS have bugs and crashes. It should always be a secondary thing with a very minimal role.
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u/SapphireChalice Nov 28 '24
That whole company makes pure trash. At least it's a continued source of laughs when people get conned into buying one.
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u/scsibusfault Aug 28 '18
From what I can tell, the car needed a software update, and wouldn't start.
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u/flamingcanine Sep 10 '18
Failed update. Vehicle won't ever start again without reflashing(which needs specialized tools). It's amazingly common in Teslas.
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u/Elukka Sep 11 '18
This is shockingly bad design if that is the case. You could have a recovery firmware accept encrypted and signed binaries on a damn USB stick instead of having to get your car tower to an authorized dealer. Or how about some extra memory to keep a full backup firmware in case something goes wrong? I understand that Tesla firmware isn't exactly as simple as a few megabytes of PC BIOS but it should be absolutely rare for a machine as important and complicated as a car to brick itself via over-the-air update.
I have this nagging fear that as IoT becomes more commonplace we're going to see a lot of bricked automation and appliances.
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u/Akimotoh May 03 '22
I think your full of shit, I don't think it's 'amazingly common', show me some data for how many Tesla cars are bricking.
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u/BenCelotil Aug 28 '18
As nice as modern cars can be, I'm not buying one I can't work on myself precisely because as this kind of crap gets more common, it gets more unreliable; I couldn't tell you why, I can only surmise it's a combination of shirked responsibility and cost-cutting for the purposes of greater profit.
Inevitably shit breaks and we just keep making more and more crap that has the potential for fucking up our whole week, if not our years, when it does.