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Zeljka Zorz - September 14, 2016

 

                                            



 

Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) software.

 

Apparently, a software bug tied to the diagnostic “oscillation test” routine in the SDM software makes it so that frontal airbags and seat belt pretensioners will not deploy “in certain rare circumstances when a crash is preceded by a specific event impacting vehicle dynamics.”

They did not explain what these “rare circumstances” are, but noted that the failure to deploy of this security feature could result in increased risk of injury to the driver and front passenger.

 

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Remember the Good Old Days, the only software a car had was its tires. That was the only thing soft, the rest of the car was built like a tank. LOL
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Remember the Good Old Days, the only software a car had was its tires. That was the only thing soft, the rest of the car was built like a tank. LOL

I remember going to the Drive-in and laying on sleeping bags on the roof of my Mom's car (74 Malibu) with a couple of friends to watch the movies. If you tried that on a car these days you'd probably collapse the roof! 😃
Well, they won't be the last to do so and I am afraid that as rs become more and more 'computerised' we are only likely to see more of this...but what worries me is when updates are handled automatically and one gets a bad one...how will that affect the car whilst it is being driven...:S

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