OTA “recall.” Sucks that there was a bug like this, but the headlines try to make these out to be bigger than they are.
Physical or otherwise “bring to the dealer” recalls are bigger news because direct owner action needs to be done, often meaning their car is unavailable for some period of time. OTA just means people will drive their car like normal and it’ll be passively fixed, which is hardly news-worthy.
A bug that causes something (that is legally required to be in a car and function properly) not to function properly or be available is not news?
The fact that they can F- it up remotely and possibly introduced a big that could cause cars to fail inspection seems newsworthy by itself.
The fact they can un-fuck it remotely seems to be the least interesting aspect of this story.
I suggest people stop letting large corporations of the hook if their lack of QA and in this case lack of separation of essential driving systems and the infotainment causes issues.
I agree, and what I said is not trying to exonerate the car companies but is pointing out the rage-bait of the news media.
“Volvo recalls ALL…” (emphasis mine), is meant to incite worry and or rage, while something like this would be truer to the details and relevance to consumers: “Volvo software bug may obscure speedometer. X number of model affected/reported. OTA fix released.”
Yeah.
I work on automotive software, and honestly have no issue with issues like this being portrayed as a big deal. I’m sick of how often I’m seeing management push shit software deliveries with the line “We’ll OTA it later, it’s fine for now.”
Screens have been in cars for a very long time at this point, there’s absolutely no reason we should be seeing issues like this aside from half-assed software being shoved out the door because we’ll hopefully fix it later via OTA.
How is this news? I have recall work done on my Honda almost every time I get an oil change. This is a Volvo software update.
