Taking a break from #Musk's Hate Train on the Hellsite to recall this series of Tweets from a few years ago.
While under-appreciated then and now, the Tweet thread by Musk posted below contains an extremely damning #SystemsSafety admission and it displays the considerable #PublicSafety blind spot associated with remotely updating #SafetyCritical systems without oversight.
Musk has no clue what he admitted to here, but systems safety experts do.
There is effectively no #automotive regulation in the US and, as such, there is no independent scrutiny on #OTA updates for cars.
OTA updates can yield public safety benefits in quickly and efficiently rectifying safety defects.
But the OTA update mechanism can also be used by automakers to water down upfront validation (in order to get to market faster and cheaper) and to hide safety defects without a #recall.
And, because there is no oversight on the latter, they should be disallowed.