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"Internet was a bad idea from the beginning" is certainly an interesting argument.
I can definitely agree that canary-less fast global rollouts were a bad idea from the very beginning though.
How long do you wager it'll be before a major car company [thinking of Tesla here but I'm pretty sure they all do this now] bricks a significant number of its electric cars by pushing a bad update (rendering the car unable to start)?
That seems best case. What if it bricks while driving?
Probably highly unlikely. I have worked on mission critical software. While it wasn't automotive it was in a similar field. The code I wrote took six months to reach production. At that company we wrote maybe 5% as many lines of code per work week compared to a normal company. There was also extensive testing.
There may be individual events that happen. Mass brickings are unlikely.
Considering the overall quality of automotive software is 100% garbage I'm not as certain a massive screw-up would be as unlikely.
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More like, for all of its benefits the internet has always been, and will always be, a point of vulnerability.
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