You wouldn’t just out of the blue completely drop support for something existentially necessary for someone to live their life and get to their job day to day would you?
Wait, you would? What the fuck? Weren’t you the one lecturing me about the ethics of downloading a car?!??
Before Fisker’s 2024 bankruptcy, just 419 Fisker Oceans made it into British driveways. One unfortunate buyer, a marketing manager from Southampton, experienced the worst of the brand’s teething troubles. After taking delivery, her Ocean was plagued by persistent software glitches. Following a call to Fisker, engineers were dispatched to collect the vehicle for repairs, but when the car was due to be collected, it refused to start. Mere days later, Fisker declared insolvency, leaving the Ocean stranded as a 5,500 lb (2,500 kg) driveway ornament for the next ten months with no solution in sight.
Its entire model relied on centralized servers, subscriptions, and proprietary software to authenticate vehicles and manage battery exchanges.
I would otherwise be excited about the idea of getting an electric car but the way they are steeped in bullshit like this makes me end up planning to only drive old cars indefinitely.
Been like this forever… Version 1.0 always sucks. Even worse is when a company ships a 0.4.2.1 beta and still calls it 1.0.
Testing costs a lot and hey, why not let your early adopters pay the price in return for having something nobody else has yet.
This article feels a bit like ragebait.
Yes, this happened once with a company that went bankrupt 2 years after launching their product. They seem to have designed an exceptionally poor product. How does this mean that the enormous engineering failures of this small startup applies to all other car brands?
Most cars have a very clear separation between core driving software and the infotainment, and the vast majority will never have any software updates so what works, will continue to work (or the other way around). At worst you’ll loose stuff like remote commands, wheatear info, list of charging points/map updates… Things that are kind of dynamic and needs to be regularly updated.
existentially necessary for someone to live their life
A bit much don’t you think?
Not in the Land of the Free.
Never blame a company for innovation. Consumers should vote with their wallet but consumers are too fucking stupid coz most are trying to be first lol
installs a claymore in your rectum
“never blame a company for innovation”
So releasing an incomplete or untested product should be the privilege of the innovators, and their customers should be the ones shouldering all expense and risk? Should we apply the same principle to the pharmaceutical industry?
You answered you own question. There is no proper govt. Oversight so business shouldn’t be punished.
We live in capitalistic economy where money defines your worth so businesses will try to screw over idiots for profit. Its completely understandable
You live in a capitalistic economy where money defines your worth. I live in a country where consumer and labour rights matter. The reason people have protections here is because they wanted to live in a social democracy and weren’t okay with taking shit. They fought for it so that my generation would be better off. Time for you to do the same.
I think its time for US to invade your country. Just name it also goodluck defending it. 👍
You are an immensely silly person. 😆
