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Comment by devy | Hacker News Reader

Someone correct me if I am wrong, we've haven't heard that Tesla OTA updates bricking people's cars.

They implemented a dual redundant system similar like the dual BIOS for motherboard since 1999.

They also do a fuckton of HIL testing for onboard software and in general approach testing like a software company instead of a bean counter company

I never heard of this and follow Tesla groups/communities/forums/etc. for over 10 years. At most you'll hear one or another person complaining about having initiated the update process and suddenly getting annoyed because they find out they need to go somewhere (it might take an hour).

Literally the first umpteen hits on Google says this happens with Tesla:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-software-updat...

That's one person claiming an update bricked their car, but it's unclear if that was due to a bad software update or a hardware failure that coincided with the update. Tesla usually explains what they fixed, so it's odd that the poster never replied with more details.

Even if every software update was perfect, you would see individual stories like the one you linked to. There are millions of Teslas in the world, and they all get updates frequently, so a hardware failure will sometimes coincide with a software update. If a bad update were shipped to customers, it would be a story similar to this Jeep issue: thousands of cars affected at once, lots of furious customers, and news articles about the failure.

I can't find any news stories about Tesla's OTAs bricking cars? Especially nothing mid-drive like we're seeing with Jeep. That'd be a pretty major story considering how every Tesla story makes headlines.

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