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The updates are pretty hilarious as well. Basically even after sending the tech the car is still bricked at the moment.

Update 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9ji...

Update 2: https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...

There was also a story a few years back that is kinda similar in issue. A rental car was taken into a rural area but they couldn't restart the car as there was no cellular signal for the app to re-enable the car. https://twitter.com/kari_paul/status/1229214223227478016

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Haha, a few years back? That tweet about the stranded car is from February. I blame you zero percent for perceiving it as such though...

I've had a similar problem with Zipcar rental (car/van rental by the hour using an app) in London multiple times. If you park somewhere without cell signal, you cannot use the RFID card to unlock the door, but if you use the key then the alarm goes off and won't stop. Every time it's happened to me they had to send someone out to reset the security system.

The tech shows up in another Ferrari. God damn, nice company car! Obviously a loaner because the tech flew in from another city, but damn!

Edit: Oops, that's probably the tech in the bricked Ferrari, not in his company car.

This car is not bricked. Please - get a grip on the language being used. The anti-theft device has triggered and the car is in lockdown.

Is there a user control on the device to restore it? If not then it is bricked to that user. Bricked is relative to the users ability to fix it. At some level of skill and money nothing is "bricked" since you could replace or reflash anything.

No, bricked is relative to _anybodies_ ability to fix it without replacing hardware.

Almost all usage for bricked from before it become a mainstream word was meaning that the bootloader on a device had become overwritten or corrupt meaning it is no longer possible to fix using the usual firmware flash method.

This is still fixable if you knew how to access the flash chip directly and had a backup of its content.

Never have I seen bricked strictly mean that hardware has blown up.

LMFAO this pedantic beyond belief. It's bricked, it's a paperweight. They lack the ability to fix it and move it. It's been bricked. Just because there's potential for it to be unbricked doesn't mean it's not been bricked.

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