• azan@lemmy.world
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      To ensure that the update process finishes without interruption due to weak battery - if that happens it can brick your car. Tbf you can also just connect the battery to a power source and keep the engine off. Depending on update and car updates that take a few hours are not unheard of

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        This is such extremely poor engineering that it throws me into a rage. There is nothing to prevent them from installing the update in the background progressively while driving and then just switching to the new version in one swift atomic operation (like changing the name of a directory) when it's ready

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          There's two major things limiting them actually. Bad software developers and using the barest possible minimum on processors and RAM to run the systems.

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          We both know that this will never happen. For the same reason why you can get a 300k$ car, and have an infotainment system that runs at 3fps. They don't have any incentive to make it run better

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          That's additional work. Easier to tell people to run the engines.

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      Because oil companies pay them to keep it running sarcasm