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[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Things can suddenly or progressively break after a while if a system gets too far behind regarding updates.

A few plausible examples:

  • The navigation system can send you to non-existing road if it doesn't know about recent major roadworks. Or give you old/bad speed limit and cause you to get a ticket.
  • The GPS receiver may fail to obtain a location if satellite orbit or other parameters shifted too much since the last update (happened to me once after several years).
  • A bug may manifest itself only after a while or a given date (similar to y2k) and break some features.
  • A vulnerability may be discovered, which make cars that aren't updated easy to steal as knowledge of the vulnerability spread
  • ...
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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