A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven

Re:A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle... by stefan_ on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:27PM (#38766804)

You are talking about the company that wrote logs to the fully read-write filesystem of their infotainment system and killed the EMMC from raw flash cycles within as few as 2 years. Recalled 10 years later.

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Re:A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle... by rpmisms on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:31PM (#38766846)

Yes, this happened to me, although it took 10 years. Free replacement, and the car still worked fine.

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Re:A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle... by FirmwareBurner on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:50PM (#38767043)

It's still a major embedded engineering oversight on their part. We had fallback developed for such cases in $5 embedded devices.

Calling out Tesla as a model for excellent software is insulting to SW that's actually quality.

What Tesla SW has and others lack, is a great "wow" factor, which consumers who don't get to see how the sausage is made, mistakenly associate with 'quality' because it behaves like their iPad, but don't know all the skeletons in that closet.

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Re:A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle... by rpmisms on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:00PM (#38767549)

Yeah, it's also a mistake they made 10 years ago.

Tesla is very good at automotive software engineering.

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Re:A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle... by FirmwareBurner on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:11PM (#38767635)

>Yeah, it's also a mistake they made 10 years ago.

You're making it sound like that mistake was an "I spilled my coffee on you boo-boo" and not a terrible engineering decision that should not have passed anyone with actual experience in the embedded industry, let alone a team. If this is the kind of engineering oversights that ends up in Tesla SW, only God knows what else they have lurking in there that hasn't yet reared its ugly head.

>Tesla is very good at automotive software engineering.

Citation needed. Repeating something doesn't make it true.

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