OTA “recall.” Sucks that there was a bug like this, but the headlines try to make these out to be bigger than they are.

Physical or otherwise “bring to the dealer” recalls are bigger news because direct owner action needs to be done, often meaning their car is unavailable for some period of time. OTA just means people will drive their car like normal and it’ll be passively fixed, which is hardly news-worthy.

I understand that airliners have separation between the computer systems used for entertainment and life-critical systems. That permits a less costly, lower reliability/testing standard to be used on the entertainment systems.

Unfortunately, current automobiles don't seem to have that separation:

In a statement released today, the Sweden-based car manufacturer says EX30 vehicles can accidentally throw up a "test screen" on the center monitor, obscuring the normal driving statistics shown there including the speedometer and infotainment features. The exact cause of the bug has yet to be disclosed.

Your honor, a software bug prevented me from realizing i was speeding.

How is this news? I have recall work done on my Honda almost every time I get an oil change. This is a Volvo software update.

EX30 is a rebadged Zeekr X which has a normal separate speedometer cluster in front of the driver, Volvo deleted that and put everything on the center screen like a Tesla.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a statement released today, the Sweden-based car manufacturer says EX30 vehicles can accidentally throw up a "test screen" on the center monitor, obscuring the normal driving statistics shown there including the speedometer and infotainment features.

"Due to a software error, the infotainment unit screen may enter a test mode during startup of the vehicle.

"Failure to display key information may potentially increase the risk of injury or death to vehicle occupants and other road users."

When that test screen error occurs, drivers are left in the dark about exactly how fast they're going, and that could lead to driving that's too reckless or too cautious, neither of which are great.

The higher-end EX90 actually got delayed by half a year purely to focus on software development, according to Volvo's public declarations.

That update was a direct response to an incident where a Cruise robo-taxi drove over a pedestrian who was already on the road after having been hit by a different vehicle, instead of just stopping after the collision happened.

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