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We had a model s, the software crashed constantly. Or just locked up.

Nothing like having your dashboard go black at 70 mph to instill confidence in your car.

My 8 year old Volvo does that rarely (two times in 8 years). At least it has a watchdog that reboots the dash and keeps running.

Guessing an eight year old Volvo still has a working speedometer during a restart, though.

It's a V40 with the LCD based speedometer. It's still a computer screen but driven by a separate CPU running the QNX OS which won't crash ;)

Weird, I’ve had my Model S for 8 years, and it never locked up once.

Is yours a MCU1 model with problematic eMMC that has worn out?

My 2016 Model S has had this happen a few times. I have even upgraded to the new computer (so the touch screen no longer feels like a Motorola Xoom), and I occasionally get this issue - but it's much rarer today than it was pre-upgrade.

Major complaint here: when it does happen, it takes minutes to reset, and you can't see your speed and get no audible cues for what is going on with the car. It is an extremely dangerous failure state.

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