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Business Insider's reporter and his disastrous experience with GM's Blazer including the infotainment system:
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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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 ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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.