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With many (most?) car companies, a software update is a call-back. My Ford, with a cell connection, receives OTA updates for stuff like the entertainment syste
by RandallBrown 2y ago
With many (most?) car companies, a software update is a call-back.
My Ford, with a cell connection, receives OTA updates for stuff like the entertainment system, but I've had to bring it in a couple of times for updates to safety systems.
- SteveNuts 2y ago>but I've had to bring it in a couple of times for updates to safety systems. Personally I'm completely fine with that, anything with the ECU/lower level safety control-by-wire systems should not be accessible to the OTA system. It's only a matter of time until hackers remotely shut down cars and cause chaos though.
- reverendsteveii 2y agohttps://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig... It is, in fact, a matter of ten years ago that hackers were able to remotely shut down a moving vehicle