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> It's not practical to produce a car that never needs updates Exactly that was done for decades.
by School-Cotton 1y ago
> It's not practical to produce a car that never needs updates
Exactly that was done for decades.
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- miohtama 1y agoBut those cars are no longer competitive. There is only a marginal buyer group who wants to drive these "bricks", which would also unlikely pass the requirements set for new cars.
- bronson 1y agoUntil 1994, the year of the first software-only recall, maybe. Things have changed. Heck, manufacturers were issuing service bulletins to fix the fuel maps in their cars in the 1980s.
- AlotOfReading 1y agoIt was not. Recalls have included software updates (sometimes via component replacement) since ECUs became common in the 1980s. Reverse engineering the binaries and flashing updated parameters is actually how ECU tuning used to be done.
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