Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoThe kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive. Software has gotten a lot more complex over the past couple decades. And just because it came on physical media and could not easily be patched doesn’t mean that it didn’t have bugs. Far from it.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That might be a valid argument when talking about accounting software with backups in case of fuck ups. We’re talking about cars, on roads, with people sprinkled all around.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I would suggest against self driving cars for this very reason. The kind of thing in the article is not a hazard while driving.
bluGill@fedia.io 1 week ago
It is less valid for accounting software than cars on the road. If you mess up accounting software CEOs go to prison for tax fraud. If you mess up car software it is someone else who dies, but no prison time for the CEO.