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I work on vehicle ECUs and we tend to generate updates for a really, really long time. There aren't really any technical issues preventing, say a dealer, from having the capability to update vehicle firmware easily. It's mostly a question of manufacturers making a commitment to do this.

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Yeah. Nothing stopping dealers from charging out the ass for a few gb of data transfer. A scam as old as time, I remember my mom almost paying $500 in the early 2000s for a new maps DVD for her lexus. I found the iso on usenet and did it myself.

I was recently charged for a few updates to the head unit to fix issues that had a TSB, and that was annoying and I think that kind of thing should be free.

However maps data is licensed so the cost makes more sense for that.

Software for a TSB absolutely should be free. That, sir, is a bug fix.

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