When car electronics started getting more and more complex back in early 2000s, people used to joke about car requiring a Windows update while driving. Now, this has become pretty much a reality in China.
Car manufactured by Nio, a Chinese car manufacturer dubbed as "China's Tesla", has confirmed that one of their cars had come to a halt in middle of a busy street in downtown Beijing. ... [ read the full article ]
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This does not happen with Tesla. The car alerts the driver to the availability of a software update which has previously been downloaded. The user is prompted to choose a time to perform the update or to exit the notice and go about their business. The episode in China sounds like a Windows 10 update experience.
Originally posted by bstringer: This does not happen with Tesla. The car alerts the driver to the availability of a software update which has previously been downloaded. The user is prompted to choose a time to perform the update or to exit the notice and go about their business. The episode in China sounds like a Windows 10 update experience.
What if you accidentally click "Yes" to perform the update now?
Originally posted by bstringer: This does not happen with Tesla. The car alerts the driver to the availability of a software update which has previously been downloaded. The user is prompted to choose a time to perform the update or to exit the notice and go about their business. The episode in China sounds like a Windows 10 update experience.
According to the article, this car also alerted the driver to an update. It said the driver "accidentally made a series of operations that activated the system update". That could just as easily happened with Telsa, just depends if the driver bothers to read the prompts correctly or not.
They are going to have link updating to whether the engine is running or requiring the vehicle to be in park for any update procedure to take place regardless of what the operator presses in the vehicle. Now they know and can fix it.
