fix it again Tony... I thought those were meant to controlled by radio...
Prevent?
Or retrofit?
So they could control the accelerator, the brakes and the transmission.
That’s more than that old guy in the parking lot yesterday could control.
I honked at him and he couldn’t control his middle finger, either.
“an electronic opening in the radio”
So the schizos were right all along!
I wonder if the fix for this will involve tinfoil.
In my professional capacity in IT, I’d want to establish how the mother-F it came to be that a software development group implemented a means to control our vehicle’s speed and brakes and exposed it via cellular communication to the outside world.
After review, I’d separate from the company everyone up and down the enterprise who had a hand in this, from the original ISR creator, functional specification signers, and developers/integrators. Only those who would survive would be those who could show me that they objected to it by saying something along the lines of “This is a really bad and reckless idea”, even if they ultimately signed off on it.
They’d walk out of the company under legal threat but with a suitable severance package — on contingency, of course.
I think I’ll keep my old pickup truck with the manual transmission.
Somebody notify Michael Hastings..
The frustrating thing is that the fix has to be absolutely simple in order for them to announce a recall so quickly. Which means they gave it no consideration at all during planning and development of the vehicle. That has GOT to change.
fix it again Tony...