Posted on 02/10/2022 5:38:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
Some Mazda owners out in Western Washington... are faced with having to listen to nothing but National Public Radio after an errant signal broke their radios.
Over the last couple of weeks, a number of owners of 2014 to 2017 Mazdas all tuned their HD Radios to 94.9 KUOW, one of the Puget Sound’s public radio stations.
Seattle Times interviewed owners, including Dave Welding, the driver of a 2016 Mazda hatch:
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.
The component dealers say is involved is the Connectivity Master Unit. It’s a $1,500 part that controls video and audio signals for the infotainment system.
[T]his issue...also breaks functions like navigation, Bluetooth, the clock, reverse camera and the car’s information menu.
Perhaps even more annoying than being stuck on a single station is the fact that some radios are stuck in a distracting boot loop. One owner described what it’s like:
“The lower right field of my vision was seeing like a TV screen going on and off,” he says. Over and over, the screen showed the Mazda logo, then there would be a flash, then the logo split into five new logos.
Mazda confirmed...that something in the radio signal impacted the software of 2014-2017 Mazda models.
“Between 1/24-1/31, a radio station in the Seattle area sent image files with no extension, which caused an issue on some 2014-2017 Mazda vehicles with older software,” the Mazda statement said. “Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) has distributed service alerts advising dealers of the issue.”
KUOW is working with Xperi Holding Corporation, the parent company of HD Radio, to figure out what the station did wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
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.
It was in the infrastructure bill. And if you try to change the channel, they activate the engine kill switch.
Remember, this is just a “glitch,” not a test.
That’s nothing.
A weird TV glitch has patients in doctors waiting rooms stuck watching CNN.
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.
By the way, is it just a coincidence we had the “cash for clunkers” program? Cash for untrackable conveyance is what it was.
Listening to our very own Pyongyang Patty...
Bkmk
“...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.
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.
The crack pipe will make it all ok.
Or they're lying about the cause...
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.
;)
Did it “fry” a major component or did it put the software into a hosed-up state.
So this only happened if you were listening to NPR in the first place. So one could say that it only happened to liberals.
Because auto shops now demand $100+ 'diagnostic' fee for repairs. Of course you're going to combine several repairs per diagnostic fee.
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.
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.
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