Business Insider’s reporter and his disastrous experience with GM’s Blazer including the infotainment system:::When the Chevrolet Blazer EV stranded Kevin Williams, a 7-hour drive turned into a 14-hour ordeal.
Business Insider’s reporter and his disastrous experience with GM’s Blazer including the infotainment system:::When the Chevrolet Blazer EV stranded Kevin Williams, a 7-hour drive turned into a 14-hour ordeal.
These software-defined vehicles need way more work and polish put into them IMO, but to be honest I’d rather these companies just give us something basic, simple, and electric that works reliably.
Toyota did it with the Prius vehicles, particularly the older models, can’t be that hard?
Also infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality, particularly if they can’t be turned off in the case of this article - only option left to the user is a “deep sleep” that might fix the problem if the vehicle is locked for 5 minutes 🤦♂️
The worst part about this increase of software use is that it’ll make a mechanically perfectly serviceable car dated and reliant on outside services. Car manufacturers aren’t planning on supporting this software for 10+ years, so one day you’ll find that navigation stops working or something like that.
Particularly and especially when the infotainment system has an always-on cellular connection. Wired ran a story way back in 2015 that hackers had managed to gain control of (I wanna say) a Dodge (it was a Stellantis group car, can’t recall which one specifically) and were able to control not only convenience features of the car like lights, wipers, and stereo, but to disable the transmission completely. All it takes is one flaw or zero-day.
Its looking like Toyota’s efforts to make the Prius so reliable was to sell more ICE engines. They have no desire to abandon ICE and go whole hog into EVs. Sadly it looks like Honda is the same.