While over-the-air updates are becoming a thing, it’s not going to be financially attractive for auto makers to continue providing security updates for 15 year old cars.
I don’t know what the solution it, but it’s going to be challenging.
89,000 miles
Looking at your link, the 89,000 number comes from assuming that you fuel your EV using 100% coal-fired generation. Who does that?
Using the “U.S. average energy mix,” the number is 14,800 miles. Or at least it was back in 2021 when this article was written. Given that the grid keeps getting cleaner every year, I assume that number has continued to improve.
And of course, that’s just the average. There does seem to be some correlation between states that generate clean energy, and states that have lots of EVs.
While most people might look at this and say “Of course the DOJ will want her to recuse herself given her past bias in favor of the accused.”
But Trump might want her recused as well. Given how thoroughly she was castigated last time (both by the press, and the circuit court), she could plausibly end up leaning the other way this time, “just to be safe.”
Judges need to be able to take any case that comes their way and conduct an impartial trial. That’s the job. But in the interests of “appearance of impartiality,” she needs to recuse herself from this one.
Sounds good in theory. But the switchover to electric is almost certainly going to have casualties. Not every company will survive, which means a lot of cars will have no support structure.
Maybe have car companies put the source code in escrow and have it released to public domain if the company goes belly up?
Having the software in my car maintained as OS isn’t a great feeling. But it beats not having it maintained at all.