A Weird Radio Glitch Has Mazda Owners Stuck Listening To NPR

/jalopnik ^ | Mercedes Streeter

[Dr. Sivana]

This could be a trick by an NPR employee who is paid by either Honda (College lefties) or Subaru (Lesbo lefties) to sabotage Mazdas, so the driver buys a Civic or Subari next time likes he is supposed to.

[PTBAA]

It was in the infrastructure bill. And if you try to change the channel, they activate the engine kill switch.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Remember, this is just a “glitch,” not a test.

[lowbridge]

That’s nothing.

A weird TV glitch has patients in doctors waiting rooms stuck watching CNN.

[refreshed]

I’ll just keep fixing my old cars, thank you very much. I’m allergic to remote kill switches, mandatory radio stations, gps tracking capability in the car’s software itself, and forced dealer service and repair. And car payments.

One day, they will keep a registry of people fixing old cars and it will be deemed “unpatriotic.” Then used car parts will be regulated.

[refreshed]

By the way, is it just a coincidence we had the “cash for clunkers” program? Cash for untrackable conveyance is what it was.

[COBOL2Java]

They’re just trying to get us used to only having one channel to listen to, like people in N. Korea.

Listening to our very own Pyongyang Patty...

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[moovova]

“...the signal the station sent... “fried” a major component.”

For the vaxxed sheeple folk...this is how they take you out. One minute your alive...the next, you’re fried. Zzzt.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

That’s caused by a software glitch in how the 2004 - 2012 Honda satnav system oprocesses GPS data. It can’t be fixed. Nothing you can do about it.

[SERKIT]

The crack pipe will make it all ok.

[GOPJ]

So basically, ANY outside actor with only nominal expertise can break a component of those cars.

Or they're lying about the cause...

[hoagy62]

See, that’s just it. If the radio tuned ITSELF to KUOW, and it costs $1500+ to fix, I’d have taken the car out and burned it rather than listen to that garbage.

But, since the radio had to have been tuned to the station in the first place when the glitch happened, they get what they deserve...including all the other stuff that’s now not working.

[BikerJoe]

Somehow the signal the station sent to the modern HD Radio that’s part of the Mazda infotainment center had, as Welding puts it, “fried” a major component.

Brings back memories from the Electronic Combat Office...

[MayflowerMadam]

;)

[Campion]

Did it “fry” a major component or did it put the software into a hosed-up state.

[Revel]

So this only happened if you were listening to NPR in the first place. So one could say that it only happened to liberals.

[RideForever]

where people bunch-up their repairs and overload the dealers

Because auto shops now demand $100+ 'diagnostic' fee for repairs. Of course you're going to combine several repairs per diagnostic fee.

[Campion]

Now that is impressive software coding when something as simple as an image file without an extension wipes out most of your electronics.

I had an acquaintance who was a software architect for a major (Japanese) auto company. Their entire SW development process consisted of writing specs which were shipped to "code farms" (I believe he said in the Phillipines) where low-paid contract coders implemented them. (Not a line of code was written in the US.) In that kind of environment, at best you get exactly what the spec asks for. If it doesn't say anything about robustly handling image files without extensions, you won't get that.

[freefdny]

https://babylonbee.com/news/while-watching-the-view-in-hell-hitler-surprised-to-learn-holocaust-wasnt-about-race
Babylon Bee says The View is on every channel in hell. Funny.