Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
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Re: Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
#2With cars essentially becoming computers that hold your life in there hands, its going to be interesting seeing how software development strategies evolve to build software rapidly but without the fall back of knowing you can simply send out a large firmware update to fix an issue. Cars can't afford to be stuck parked because someone made a small coding issue that got pushed before it was caught.
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#3I'd double check the emissions readings before and after this "bug fix".
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#4We had a similar issue about half a year ago while driving 2016 XC60 D4 (i.e. 4 cylinders) on a highway. I guess they'll have more cars to recall.
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#5I'm sure the dealers are excited as hell about this (and non-software-updatable-over-the-air cars in general)
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#6I'm sure the dealers are excited as hell about this (and non-software-updatable-over-the-air cars in general)
At least one of the configurations of the 2012 Ford Focus/Fiesta transmission had issues. The mechanic at the dealer agreed it was a problem. Ford never acknowledged their fault as far as I know. A firmware update about a year later seemingly fixed the issue. Why wouldn't they acknowledge the issue and tell people they're working on it? Liability issue?
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#7Critical firmware must be open source and public by law. Especially as it continues to take over more control of things like cars.
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#8>> The glitch had been reported by drivers of new Volvos who said the engine could cut out without warning, creating a brief absence of steering and braking.
Created by Volvo - who wants to be death proof by 2020...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3409102/Volvo...
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#9>> ">> The glitch had been reported by drivers of new Volvos who said the engine could cut out without warning, creating a brief absence of steering and braking."
Do they just mean the power steering cuts out and brakes lose hydraulics? Because there's a pretty huge difference between that and 'a brief absence of steering and braking'.
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#10Why don't any of the luxury car brands (other than Lexus) focus on reliability? It seems so strange that the market is willing to pay ~$40-$80k for a car totally indifferent to its engineering quality. If I were to own a luxury car, I'd want to know its engineering is rock-solid first and foremost. I'd want to be proud of it as a machine not just a symbol. Maybe that's just a techie thing, though.
Volvo has been notorious for extremely difficult-to-diagnose and expensive-to-repair electrical system problems for at least a decade.