ADAPT May 2020 / by Melissa Steinken / Read original article
Predictions indicate that vehicles are on their way to becoming much more adaptable than ever before. With today’s vehicle technology that sets up a car similar to a smartphone, cars like Teslas are able to receive over-the-air software updates.
Tesla, however, is no longer the only automaker to be offering over-the-air updates.
Tesla has sent over-the-air updates to cars since around 2012 but recently other automakers like Ford and General Motors also implemented the updates.These automakers announced they planned to roll out this capability around 2020. Ford vehicles are rolling out of assembly lines as of this year with built-in cellular data modems. These updates can help fix maintenance issues, engine malfunctions, changes to the vehicle’s physical parts, electronic signal processing system and more.
General Motors informs its car owners that these updates can be performed by a servicing dealer or an independent service center.
During a software-over-the-air update, a file is downloaded the car after having been sent from a cloud-based server across a WiFi or mobile network. The update is sent either directly to the vehicle or to the owner’s device and then uploaded, for example, through a Bluetooth connection.
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