Once upon a time, firmware updates on a car were a fraught process, involving expensive proprietary programming tools or literally ripping out and replacing chips. These days, by virtue of wireless connectivity, it’s possible to remotely update cars over the air. It’s convenient for customers and automakers, right up until it goes wrong, as Rivian […]
A 90 minute turn around isn’t terrible. I’m actually surprised 3% managed to get it in that window. Not only do you need to accept the update, you also need to be in a position to be able to accept it.
I wonder if users had to report it, or if they get pings about failed updates (the car didn’t properly check in post update)
If they detected it themselves via the car and not users, I’d be really curious to know how many failures it took to trigger an alert before someone looked into it and halted it.