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Unbelievable! Ford Mustang Mach-E's Software Glitch Could Leave You Stranded (www.youtube.com)
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If a firmware update fails on your Mach-E, you're stranded... There's no backup or emergency boot ROM to at least allow you to drive home.

This is pretty disappointing for a "premium" EV IMO, considering other devices like PCs and smartphones will automatically revert to the last working update if they fail to boot.

Most modern PC motherboards even have this feature implemented at a hardware level for the BIOS, where the previous firmware is restored from an independent "flashback" ROM if a startup failure is detected following an update.

In this video Louis is pretty frustrated about these poor engineering decisions being blamed on EV technology, rather than pointing the blame at the manufacturer's poor engineering decisions - as it allows the manufacturers to continually get away with making things worse, and not being held accountable.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I hate that companies are trying to turn cars into consumer electronics.

The switch to EVs should have been an opportunity to make cars simpler, with fewer points of failure, and yet that's being overshadowed by this nonsense.