“Software updates to my Tesla are like Christmas,” said Ankur Pansari of San Francisco. In November 2013, Tesla issued a software update to electronically raise the ground clearance of the Model S after a vehicle’s battery pack caught fire when it ran over an object. “We absolutely believe in the promise of software updates,” said Don Butler, Ford’s executive director of connected vehicles. Hacking into the software, Mr. Hughes removed those safeguards. Remote software updates will become particularly crucial as vehicles become more capable of driving themselves.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2016 20:15 UTC