Moving to a new board based on the same hardware with dual SoCs might help a few bugs around the edges (though I have my doubts), but it doesn't address more fundamental causes. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid it's going to take another 2008-esque disaster for them to really "get" it.
Throwing a faster system at it is a band-aid. It's scary. My car is still on an old 2023 release of code and I'm keeping it there until it's sold. If the backup camera fails again, I'll use the glass window. At least that works.
My dealer invited me to see the EX90 "demo unit" a year and half ago. A demo unit that wasn't drivable and came with a Volvo employee admonishing us from touching any of the controls. Where do I wire my deposit?
I'll believe that when they ship a single car with a better UI than the pre-touchscreen vehicles I used to own. Until then, there's no way I'm getting any of these stupid software defined vehicles. We have one (Kia EV9), which is also a "dumpster fire in a train wreck", and are getting rid of it. We've had more issues than the people interviewed in the article about the Volvo. So have the other EV9 owners I've talked to.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/ai_safety_seoul_decla...
So... an NVIDIA(?)-powered ADAS keeps trying to murder me.
Who do I call to get them to pull their boards from the market + flip that remote termination switch they agreed to when they signed on to the Seoul Declaration?
edit: Actually, I'm not sure who built said ADAS hardware. The question still stands for the Volvos in the article, assuming replacing the onboard computer doesn't fix the busted software.
Maybe they'll take a page from Volvo's book (assuming the current EV9 is drivable, which I doubt).
tenacious_tuna•4mo ago
Guy made a CVE style disclosure page about all the issues he'd experienced with his EX90. This feels related.