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?
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?
ICE vehicles DO get computer updates which can cause them to not start, which may not specifically be the ECU, but it's
Here's a redditor saying his Range Rover won't start: https://reveddit.com/r/LandRover/comments/1iyuw0q/my_car_wont_start_after_system_update_starts/
BMW M3: https://www.justanswer.co.uk/bmw/p7xhx-car-won-t-start-software-update-hour-2023-g81-m3.html
Another Beemer: https://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1884437
2018 Pacifica Hybrid: https://www.pacificaforums.com/threads/car-wont-start-scan-came-back-with-p1d3e-code-re-install-and-update-to-latest-software-to-fix-the-issue.55970/
OK, it seems it happens more frequently than I thought. Probably related to the subscription-based services with the BMWs.
You clearly don't understand how an ECU works