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发帖数: 20761 | 1 Lexus software update gives new meaning to 'car crash'
Now that cars are as buggy as computers, we're in trouble.
Violet Blue , @violetblue
19h ago in Transportation
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Illustration by D. Thomas Magee
Last year, headlines made everyone fearful of hackers taking over cars on
the freeway. Turns out the real menace to owners of connected cars are the
loopy manufacturers themselves.
Toyota had to suck it up this week and admit to Lexus owners, who were going
nuts on Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday, about why the climate control,
radio, GPS, USB, Bluetooth, and other features suddenly stopped working for
a range of 2014-2016 Lexus models. Or, their dashboard console would reset
itself repeatedly.
The Lexus brand posted an oblique apology on Facebook and Twitter late
Tuesday. But, like many big companies that can't get their cyber-act
together, it provided few details to furious customers.
7 Jun
Lexus ✔ @Lexus
Many of our owner's vehicle head units stopped working. We are working
around the clock to find a solution. Stay tuned for more information
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Duke of Cucamonga @CucamongaDuke
@Lexus Also having intermittent problem with the center console USB outlet.
Phone charges, stops, charges, stops.
11:20 AM - 8 Jun 2016
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The scant information, of course, had some people convinced it was the work
of the government, jamming communications and sabotaging luxury car owners
in dark deeds for the NSA. It didn't help that Toyota spokesperson Cindy
Knight told Bloomberg that satellite communications to Lexus GPS systems "
had been disrupted." One outlet even suggested it was a cyberattack on Lexus
itself. (CrowdStrike: It was Russia!)
Others were sure it was hackers in balaclavas getting ready for their cameos
on CNN at that conference in Las Vegas. Or, some sort of hideous tentacle
porn malware, which would surely take over their cars and strangle and
violate them with their seat belts like a terrible cyberpunk Cthulu come to
life.
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Albert Koval @kilauea88
#Lexus #RX450h bad navigation system update, radio & nav system useless.
Nice match for defective fuel tank sensor!
11:31 PM - 7 Jun 2016
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No one knew what to do. On Twitter, some Lexus owners said that
disconnecting the battery for a minute forced a system reboot, and that
seemed to work.
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Joshua Burda @JoshuaBurda
@Lexus when can I expect a fix for the nav reset loop issue?! It's a driving
hazard with the screen constantly resetting in my line of sight
3:19 AM - 8 Jun 2016
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Lexus said little more than it was "fully engaged and investigating this
issue as a top priority." Hey, at least they didn't say it was a "
sophisticated" attack.
According to reports, drivers affected spanned from California to
Massachusetts. Among other things, these customers "complained of being
stuck hundreds of miles from home without the benefit of GPS, or of being
stuck in Southern California freeway traffic without air conditioning."
The afternoon statement by Lexus on Twitter was light on details. But Lexus
Communications Specialist Laura Conrad told Security Ledger that customers
need to bring their cars to a Toyota or Lexus dealership so the service
department could do a "forced reset and clearing of the errant data from the
system." Basically, the equivalent of turning it off and on again.
This doesn't bode well for what could happen with driverless cars. Who do
you call when it's jamming an intersection, endlessly rebooting? Or things
like Tesla's Autopilot, which drives the car for you. At least if that
particular luxury car drove itself into a fire hydrant because an update
gave your car the automotive equivalent of Heartbleed, you could give Elon
Musk a hard time about it on Twitter.
The good news? This week's borked Lexus update wasn't critical to immediate
vehicle safety because it was for the specific systems related to climate,
GPS, and entertainment. But Tesla is one automaker who has moved to software
updates that control the whole vehicle, which introduces a whole host of
concerns.
Lexus emailed a statement to Security Ledger which reported:
"Errant data" sent by a third party that provides traffic and weather data
service was "not handled as expected" by the Enform software that runs the
center display on 2014-2016 model year Lexus and 2016 model year Toyota Land
Cruiser vehicles, the company said in an emailed statement.
So thanks to something sketchy with a third party in Enform's app suite,
which includes everything from Yelp to Facebook and I Heart Radio, one
update crashed the entire center console for all drivers who paid for the
privilege of Enform.
In addition to the constant resets, drivers also lost roadside assistance,
emergency assistance, stolen vehicle location and Enform's vehicle and
service alerts "delivered on demand." Its mobile app lets you lock and
unlock doors, and start the car, so we can suppose those "features" may have
been "down" too.
Great, so now we have to worry about buggy, unvetted third party updates in
our cars. Next they're going to tell us to carry a paperclip in case our car
stalls. That is, until someone realizes that cars are now going to have to
come equipped with CTRL-ALT-DELETE buttons.
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: Lexus software update gives new meaning to 'car crash'
: Now that cars are as buggy as computers, we're in trouble.
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: Illustration by D. Thomas Magee
: Last year, headlines made everyone fearful of hackers taking over cars on
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