• Hirom@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Things can suddenly or progressively break after a while if a system gets too far behind regarding updates.

    A few plausible examples:

    • The navigation system can send you to non-existing road if it doesn’t know about recent major roadworks. Or give you old/bad speed limit and cause you to get a ticket.
    • The GPS receiver may fail to obtain a location if satellite orbit or other reference data shifted too much since the last update (happened to me once).
    • A bug may manifest itself only after a while or a given date (similar to y2k) and break some features.
    • A vulnerability may be discovered, which make cars that aren’t updated easy to steal as knowledge of the vulnerability spread