It’s not entirely clear if it was purely a driver error or if it was an inherent design flaw of the car’s computer software. The Verge was told by a Nio spokesperson that it should’ve been pretty obvious what was about to happen: users receive a “clear notice explaining that users need to park their cars during the upgrading and the car’s relevant functionalities will be shut down.”
Driver error or not, this gives us a preview of issues to do with automated vehicles OTHER than the obvious ones of running folk down,crashing, or doing a Doctor Who "ATMOS" scenario of driving the passengers into a river!
#Technomania
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-competitor-nio-test-drive
Imagine being parked in the Australian Summer sun and not even being able to wind down the windows. The Coroner would have words to say.
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