Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by h4kunamata on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:26PM (#49960052)

The Enshittification era keeps on giving.

Moved from one of the most fun auto sports to an EV mess. The fact that they were able to vibe code ( You can't truly deliver a code without testing gates in place, let alone release to production, the cars themselves), tells:

1: The teams no longer own the car

2: F1 has become Formula E 2.0

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by superb_dev on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:32PM (#49960092)

F1 teams have never fully owned the car, you’ll notice they all look pretty similar. The FIA has a lot of rules around the construction of the cars

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by lostlogin on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:43PM (#49960149)

FIA, the FIFA of motorsport.

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by MBCook on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:46PM (#49960467)

I’ve really enjoyed this year.

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by LoganDark on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:31PM (#49960077)

Gotta love how people assume software patches have never been prepared in an emergency before LLMs. Ever heard of Apollo 14?

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by fishgoesblub on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:13PM (#49960304)

Apollo 14? Is that a new model?

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by LoganDark on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:25PM (#49960359)

Apollo 14 was one of the original moon landing missions back in 1971. They had to make an emergency adjustment to the computer's memory to work around an electrical issue where the abort button would intermittently (and erroneously) register as pressed. Turns out they couldn't modify the actual machine code so it wasn't a "software patch" in the exact same sense, but there were certainly no large language models back then.

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by hardbass on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:00AM (#49962814)

There was a newer model called the Hubble, its patch was far more expensive and needed on site engineers.

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Re:Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software gl... by Spooky23 on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:31AM (#49961342)

What do you think mechanics do with old school cars?

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