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Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by wannacboatmovie on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:24PM (#41660287)
GM introduced this functionality 25 years ago with OnStar. It's been around so long the technology is considered legacy with support farmed out to Filipinos.

The fact that your car needs "somewhat frequent" updates doesn't concern you? Cars are effectively appliances, they should work right the first time, with minor updates here and there to fix serious issues which can be done in the safety of a shop at next scheduled service, and not risk pulling a Rivian and bricking the entire fleet at the push of a button.

Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by ninalanyon on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:48PM (#41661168)
The over the air updates to my 2015 Tesla S have added features as well as fixing bugs.
Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by prmoustache on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:12PM (#41661412)
features...or distractions?
Re:Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple W... by fragmede on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:17PM (#41664597)
there are things they managed to fix in software that you thought would need to be fixed in hardware