Comment by stevenhubertron
7 months ago
I’m sorry, but you’re incorrect the vehicle completely shutting down while driving and not working again until you put it into park and then it’s shutting down five minutes later is effectively bricked and extremely dangerous. Myself and my family almost died just trying to get home from dinner. It was a complete loss of propulsion and power steering.
There are many things that are dangerous that aren't "brick"-ings. If it can be later restored to function, then it is not bricked.
Thank you. I really hate how watered down the term "bricked" has become.
I prefer the term borked in these situations
being unable to drive my vehicle due to a software update is bricking. It's also a pun, us Jeep owners call our Jeep's flying bricks.
Being temporarily unusable is not how I've seen "bricked" used, bricked means unrecoverable and the item is completely unusable except for as a brick/paperweight/door stop.
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If you can do something, anything, to the vehicle to repair it, then it's not bricked.
Then it would better be described as a life-threatening event rather than a bricking - especially as, in the hierarchy of concerns, the former is more serious than the latter.
And then it was fixed with another OTA, so it was not bricked. Why bring up this pedantic point you may ask? Because the grandparent raises a scenario that doesn't apply here. A/B updates or not were not at all the issue here.