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Comment by PKop

7 months ago

This update was for the infotainment system. To your point, that system should somehow be air-gapped from affecting the engine and power. There's way too much coupling of all this software and electrical components.

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cosmicgadget  7 months ago

Uh how would you change vehicle performance settings?

  • noisem4ker  7 months ago

    For the sake of answering you: through dedicated physical switches (such as Ferrari's famous manettino).

    What I really think: my car shouldn't have any bullshit "modes" to select from. Tune it once at the factory to some reasonable compromise, and perhaps make certain settings writable through the OBD port, and that will be it.

    • cosmicgadget  7 months ago

      I suppose you could have independent, air-gapped cockpit drive control systems and infotainment systems. It's probably less ecomomical and automatic e911 would be harder to do.

      At a bare minimum any EV driver is going to want two power delivery modes. Jeep people surely don't want to plug in an OBD dongle when they go off road.