Why was it bricked in first place? Cars don't brick themselves by entering tunnel or driving in wilderness.
I get it, he has to keep stirring up controversy to stay relevant, but Cory sometimes looses his marbles over irrelevant crap.
TFA doesn't say that all Fisker cars are bricked - It says that they become unusable do to minor maintenance issues that can't resolved without Fisker servers being online.
I wish I could buy an electric car with no radio transmitters and no ways to install software other than JTAG ports. I think that'll be possible in the relatively near future through EV conversions of legacy vehicles, though that route may have crash safety concerns.
If I ever get the funds I'm building this vehicle for sure, because it is pretty much guaranteed no one else will.
‘Cuz $DEITY knows that “bricked” has a very wide range of colloquial definitions.
Not all the links are behind paywalls. Fisker themselves are among the groups saying they don't know how to get the cars running again.
Eh ? Like any gambling game: Insert Coin
Allowing manufacturers to open/close your vehicles at whim sounds putting too many eggs at same basket. DMV is the one who knows who actually owns the car after all...