It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
ICE vehicles don't get remote updates to the drivetrain software of the ECU. Why? Because the ECU is completely tailored to the mechanical components in the car. You'd have to change the components to make an update make sense.
I'm not saying it's completely impossible for this to happen to an ICE vehicle, but it's a much more pernicious problem in EV design.
Show me a single example of an ICE vehicle getting bricked by a remote update?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
Teslas don't. They have individual motors for each wheel that takes orders from the computer
Okay? Only on the most poorly designed of cars would that not be the way things work...
Tesla door handles are not mechanical. If the battery erupts, you better know the emergency exit procedure in the seconds it takes for the fire to engulf the cockpit.
Are you sure about that?...
I've done it. Not while the accelerator was stuck, just to mess around and coast down a hill. The power steering goes out so I have to muscle the steering, but it works. My care is also not a push start, it has a physical key.
yeah, avoid EVs like the plague
Avoid autonomous cars like the plague. The autonomy is the problem, not the drivetrain.
True, but sadly it seems you have to stick to older cars to avoid that garbage, which largely rules out EVs.
It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
ICE vehicles don't get remote updates to the drivetrain software of the ECU. Why? Because the ECU is completely tailored to the mechanical components in the car. You'd have to change the components to make an update make sense.
I'm not saying it's completely impossible for this to happen to an ICE vehicle, but it's a much more pernicious problem in EV design.
Show me a single example of an ICE vehicle getting bricked by a remote update?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
Teslas don't. They have individual motors for each wheel that takes orders from the computer
Tesla door handles are not mechanical. If the battery erupts, you better know the emergency exit procedure in the seconds it takes for the fire to engulf the cockpit.
I've done it. Not while the accelerator was stuck, just to mess around and coast down a hill. The power steering goes out so I have to muscle the steering, but it works. My care is also not a push start, it has a physical key.