Comment by MonaroVXR
4 months ago
The Honda issue where setting a certain radio station, would brick the infotainment? That good enough?
4 months ago
The Honda issue where setting a certain radio station, would brick the infotainment? That good enough?
> That good enough?
Not really. Does the car still drive? That sounds like a software bug; hardly indicative that the entire car is held together with duct tape, but a pretty bad bug non the less.
So i can't remember the specifics or find any references, but many years ago i remember reading about a car (prius maybe?) that would shut off and lock the doors when pulling away from a stop. (Ex: stopped at a red light, when it turns green the car would go far enough to cut off in the middle of an intersection then trap everyone inside.)
"This is Fine."
That's terrifying.
The browser still drives when Google throws up a safety warning.
It's just harder to drive to one house, and the homeowner is justifiably irritated about this.
More accurate: a mom-n-pop grocery store has its listing on Google Maps changed to PERMANENTLY CLOSED DUE TO TOXIC HEALTH HAZARDS because the mom-n-pop grocery store didn't submit Form 26B/Z to Google. There was never any health hazard, but now everyone thinks there is, and nobody can/will go there. The fact that Form 26B/Z exists at all is problematic, but what makes it terrible is the way it's used to punish businesses for not filling out a form they didn't know existed.
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The other commenter's analogy of a small-business is better I think, the issue with the browser problem is that it doesn't hinder one person getting to one house, it hinders all persons getting to one place the owner _wants_ people to get to easily.
The browser issue can destroy a small business, one thing I think we can universally agree we don't want. If all of the people who come looking for it find it's being marked as malicious or just can't get there at all, they lose customers.
Worse yet, is that Google holds the keys because everyone uses Chrome, and you have to play their game by their rules just to keep breathing.
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The road network is a much better analogy here.
Never heard of this. Link please?
Don't know about Honda, but there is this Mazda one [0] (Would not be surprised if it affected multiple vendors!)
[0] https://www.soundandvision.com/content/remembering-time-when...
Yikes. I missed that. Makes sense it wasn't just the station it was tuned to but the particular data they broadcasted; insane there was no way to power reset the system into a good state.