The hardware still looks so great, but responsiveness has gone to the shitter in recent years.

Mr hackerman couldn’t get to the car because it crashed first due to a software bug the customer did not have time to take his car to the shop to fix.

The real world is quite different than the idealistic one.

And how often were they actually followed vs discarded because the customer just didn’t care?

You do realize your entire first point is invalidated by the comment you’re replying to? I just said the customer has to press a button on their phone to initiate the update. On that same phone they can view release notes that clearly outline the recall. Additional on first use, the car will display those same release notes on the screen.

Sure, safety vs convenience is a huge factor in software development. The biggest factor to safety is unpatched software. You know, the kind that requires significant effort to update, such as needing to bring your car into the shop to apply.

Overall your doom and gloom argument against OTA safety updates is pretty weak.

Right, because the recall for the icons on the screen needing to be a tad bigger is as serious as uncontrolled acceleration of a giant hunk of metal.

They need a new name for software update recalls and physical recalls. They both need to be serious, but a distinction is needed.

Recalls still require the customer to take action. They’re much less likely to go into the shop to have it fixed than press a button on their phone and have the car fix itself overnight.

Your suggestion for not allowing safety software fixes OTA is dangerous.

To be fair, it’s the corporation that lets them do it. They still have their jobs and salaries after all.

Which is just DNS with extra steps

Honestly, that makes sense. Outage reporting service is nice to have. A way to pay your bills is a requirement. They clearly have different SLAs.

That would disproportionately impact further north not south.

Rules are written in blood. Once you figure out all the standard cases, you can only try and predict as many edge cases that you can think of. You can’t make something fool proof because there will always be a greater fool that will come by.

Full releases have plenty of bugs.

Content has always been available, but the number of people pirating decreased. It’s now having a resurgence.

not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.

Because that’s twice the maintenance cost? The better question is why did they take so long after the merge to shut one of them down.

Batteries are over 90% recyclable. They’re actually pretty environmentally friendly after the first round.