I think this is great news. I think it’s a valid point that it’s hard to compete with Waymo (and probably Cruise from GM). I’d also worry what would happen if Silicon Valley cornered the market.
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[0] About 100%
[1] 54 hours spanning Monday through Wednesday.
[2] ^H absolutely most certainly did
[3] Turns out part of the car's A/C UI dynamically fetches JavaScript on startup and our outage stopped serving JS, so A/C module failed to load. The worker thread that spawns the rest of the car's functionality freezes if the A/C module fails to respond. I guess we never tested that, I mean our internal network is pretty reliable, you know?
[4] We moved the JavaScript to a CDN so that means 100% availability. Presumably eventually we'll rewrite the entire client stack anyway thus implicitly killing this horrible dependency.
When you contact customer support our reps will explain that it must be something in their system but they can’t see your account and will transfer you to a manager at which point the call will disconnect.
Not 100% sure if any startups are planning this far ahead in the future.
I am not at all trying to be funny.
> I think remote updates will continue to be installed only when cars are in park.
What you think doesn't really matter, and you are wrong about the 'continue' bit.
But it would be good if we had some laws around this stuff stipulating that software updates of moving vehicles are strictly forbidden, it seems like common sense, unfortunately not everybody has it.