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 ...
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If this glitch affects only those idiots who were tuned to NPR what’s the problem?
“Hitler was sure to hear about Whoopi’s views on the Holocaust since no matter what channel or streaming service one flips to in Hell, the only program that comes through on every channel is ‘The View’”
Wow, writing specs to define what the code shouldn’t do would be far bigger than defining what the code should do.
Bingo!
“fixing old cars”
Yup—any day now Homeland Security will publish a bulletin on “how to recognize the right wing extremist in your neighborhood”.
That is definitely going to be on the list.
Owning big dogs will be another one.
Finger pointing! They need to find out why HD Radio could be fried by any radio signal that didn't fry any other system.
Then again, those NPC Mazda Owners tuned to the NPR station to start with.
This story is beyond insane.
Progressives who own one of the affected vehicles think they’ve died and gone to heaven.
Real people who own one of the affected vehicles have their Diocesan Exorcist on speed-dial.
What’s a Thom Hartmann?
HD Radio
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