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Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by lettruthout to c/technology
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The buyer, a New York-area leasing company called American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to each SUV to a new server not owned by the bankrupt EV startup. Since American Lease needs that information to operate the vehicles after Fisker is dissolved, the leasing company has filed an emergency objection to the startup’s liquidation plan.

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[–] AdamEatsAss 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With old cars if the radio stopped working you'd go to the dealership/auto store and have it replaced. I think a lot of people would be fine having to go to a similar place for software fixes. Remote updates scare me. Rivian had an update earlier this year that blue screened the infotainment console on every car it went out to. It's not hard to believe a similar mixup could happen with a more important system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I've had cars where if there's a programming update required, they issue it as a service action, you take the car to the dealer, and they do the software update locally with an SD card or USB stick.

You can still have easily updated software without it requiring OTA updates.

[–] Badeendje 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a matter of time till we see cars bricked. Didn't I also read something about a driver being stuck while the car was updating?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's already happened, it was either Fisker or another new EV manufacturer.