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All this is possible without integrating the software into the vehicle itself, making it brickable. Reliability and repairability going down is not "evolution"
by whstl 3y ago
All this is possible without integrating the software into the vehicle itself, making it brickable.
Reliability and repairability going down is not "evolution" in any sense.
And the market hasn't really said anything when those things have been pushed into consumers without much choice. Saying "the market has spoken" in this case is like saying the market has spoken when someone claims that slapping a fruit logo is enough to sell computers. Turns out the choice of which car to buy is non-binary, it's not "internet connected" vs "non internet connected".
- hgomersall 3y agoI feel it's not completely impossible to design a system that is properly partitioned, such that an update failure to the seat heating software doesn't brick the car. Updates to core systems should be rare in the extreme.
- benj111 3y agoI would say part of the problem is that they want the option of updating seat heating software, rather than actually properly testing the up and down buttons and the thermostat.
- whstl 3y agoThat's an extreme example, but: definitely. Having an interface to turn seat heating on/off if simple stuff. Having the upgradeability, DRM, the subscription thing, and circumvention protection is significantly more complicated.
- ajross 3y ago> All this is possible without integrating the software into the vehicle itself, making it brickable. Sure. And Ford messed up. But the request upthread wasn't for a vehicle with robust software update semantics, it was for a vehicle without connectivity. That's not going to sell well.
- iknowstuff 3y agoTesla does it well with their real time gateway mechanism isolating entertainment software from crucial vehicle driving software.