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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by jjav on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:34AM (#46242428)
> Auto insurers don't face a "catastrophic liability" bankrupting scenario like home insurers might in the case of a natural disaster or fire.

This changes with self-driving. Push a buggy update and potentially all the same model cars could crash on the same day.

This is not a threat model regular car insurers need to deal with since it'll never happen that all of their customers decide to drive drunk the same day, but that's effectively what a buggy software update would be like.

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by bentcorner on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:50AM (#46244673)
Far be it from me to tell automakers how to roll out software but I would expect them to have relatively slow and gradual rollouts, segmented by region and environment (e.g., Phoenix might be first while downtown London might be last).
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by HPsquared on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:37AM (#46245110)
That process itself could still break. (Unlikely though it may be)
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by bdamm on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:25AM (#46244988)
Tesla certainly does it this way today. This is also the norm for IoT that I'm aware of. Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway.
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by jjav on Saturday December 13, 2025 @04:25AM (#46253267)
> Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway.

Crowdstike raises their hand..

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by anticensor on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:46AM (#46254168)
aionescu, CTIO of CrowdStrike, is here.
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