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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by myrmidon on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @04:49AM (#42244118)
As an embedded software developer: 100% yes. Having a cheap OTA option will always lead to more sloppiness in development; the problem is that this makes it possible and easy to delay "features" in general when software projects are behind schedule (instead of delaying everything), these delayed features/releaes alone are then additional surface for bugs/regressions to slip through testing.

For the manufacturer this is still mainly a win I'd say... possibly even for the customer (because he gets features and fixes faster, at least), even though it sounds bad.

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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by sulam on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:33PM (#42248476)
I would argue that often the car or other hardware being delayed is not an option and so you get rushed software anyway, that has to be dealer serviced. We’ve seen that a lot in cars now that they’ve started having non-trivial amounts of software that is expected to multi-task. I don’t even know how many networks your typical EV has, it’s usually at least 4 or 5.
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