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What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? (arstechnica.com)

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You wouldn't just out of the blue completely drop support for something existentially necessary for someone to live their life and get to their job day to day would you?

Wait, you would? What the fuck? Weren't you the one lecturing me about the ethics of downloading a car?!??

Before Fisker’s 2024 bankruptcy, just 419 Fisker Oceans made it into British driveways. One unfortunate buyer, a marketing manager from Southampton, experienced the worst of the brand’s teething troubles. After taking delivery, her Ocean was plagued by persistent software glitches. Following a call to Fisker, engineers were dispatched to collect the vehicle for repairs, but when the car was due to be collected, it refused to start. Mere days later, Fisker declared insolvency, leaving the Ocean stranded as a 5,500 lb (2,500 kg) driveway ornament for the next ten months with no solution in sight.

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[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 4 points 1 day ago

This article feels a bit like ragebait.

Yes, this happened once with a company that went bankrupt 2 years after launching their product. They seem to have designed an exceptionally poor product. How does this mean that the enormous engineering failures of this small startup applies to all other car brands?

Most cars have a very clear separation between core driving software and the infotainment, and the vast majority will never have any software updates so what works, will continue to work (or the other way around). At worst you'll loose stuff like remote commands, wheatear info, list of charging points/map updates.. Things that are kind of dynamic and needs to be regularly updated.