Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs

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Post by astaire » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 9:38 PM UTC

Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs
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Post by sliverstorm » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:20 PM UTC

I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often.

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Post by kyle_t » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:25 PM UTC

Its only a matter of time before over the air car hijacking becomes a real problem. I think I prefer my car not be wirelessly susceptible.

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Post by TrainedMonkey » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:32 PM UTC

Hats off to Tesla, right now they are doing for cars what Apple did for smartphones in 2007. Under closer examination concept is simple - work closer with customers. In Tesla's case this means monitor working parameters of all the cars they sold. This allows them to identify, diagnose, and solve quite a few problems extremely quickly.

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Post by koenigdavidmj » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #2

I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often .

Or the alternate phrasing, "move fast and break things".

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Post by th0br0 » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 10:52 PM UTC

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #5

sliverstorm wrote: post #2

I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often .

Or the alternate phrasing, "move fast and break things".

Shouldn't that be "move fast and crash things"?

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Post by greenyoda » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:06 PM UTC

kyle_t wrote: post #3

Its only a matter of time before over the air car hijacking becomes a real problem. I think I prefer my car not be wirelessly susceptible.

Yeah, if you can program a car to not catch fire, it should also be possible to program a car to catch fire.

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Post by pyrocat » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:12 PM UTC

th0br0 wrote: post #6

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the alternate phrasing, "move fast and break things".

Shouldn't that be "move fast and crash things"?

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Post by sahaskatta » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:19 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #2

I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often .

Tesla has been doing staged rollouts already. They've already had a situation in which they pulled an update after it was delivered to only small subset of users and issued a newer version when bugs were resolved.

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Post by will_hughes » Mon, Jan 20, 2014, 11:22 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #2

I shiver a little bit, picturing a future in which automotive software is released early, released often .

"Your Tesla needs to update. Please close all doors and windows, then turn the car off and on again."