Where vehicle software meets a technician. Coverage follows diagnostic protocols and tooling, remote and predictive diagnostics, service procedure as it is written into national standards, and the recurring question of who is allowed to read a vehicle and repair it.
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NHTSA will hold a workshop on December 10 and keep a docket open until April 2027 on how changes to ride height, bumper geometry, body panels and wheel offset affect the calibration of driver assistance systems.
Stellantis Japan told the transport ministry it would reflash the body control module on 1,798 Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat vans after a control-program fault left the instrument cluster dead at engine start.
UD Trucks told Japan's transport ministry that compatibility between a driver's-seat switch panel and the cab input/output module had not been verified sufficiently, and that it would reflash the module on every affected vehicle.
Sonatus said Nissan Technical Centre Europe is expanding its Fastlane platform across pre-production validation after a year of development, and reported investigation times falling from two weeks to two days.
Volvo Trucks launched the VNX, completing a three-truck North American lineup on one platform, with a factory-fitted telematics gateway and remote software and parameter updating on every unit.
The industrial brand of Chinese module maker Quectel released a white paper at the Shanghai industry fair setting out a three-stage route to automated production test of smart-cockpit and ADAS domain controllers.
Volvo Car Japan told the transport ministry that the telematics module's control program cannot reach the mobile network, so the automatic emergency call system fails the national standard, and filed remote distribution as an alternative to a dealer visit.
One recall replaces rear-view cameras whose software corrupts its own data at startup; the other rewrites a signal and actuation module's program and cuts out a wiring harness that an earlier recall had added.
The filing says the control program was inadequately studied, and that if the motor's initial learning at start-up does not complete, output control fails, the system may stop and the vehicle may become undriveable.
BMW Japan told the transport ministry that a head-unit program fault can leave the front and side camera images off the center display, and said the reflash would go out either over the air or through a dealer's diagnostic tester.
General Motors said it had recently launched OnStar Fleet Intelligence, a platform combining diagnostics, geofencing and connected-service renewals with a natural-language assistant over fleet reporting.
A delegated regulation published in the Official Journal enters on-board diagnostics, cybersecurity and on-board monitoring into the table of UN Regulations recognized as equivalent for EU type approval, and lists no UN Regulation against any of them.
BRP's instrument-cluster campaign, which NHTSA records as failing two federal motor vehicle safety standards at once, became searchable by vehicle identification number on September 22, with the fix delivered over the air or by a dealer.
Two software recalls filed on the same day cover 441,107 vehicles, and the 2026 Ram 1500 appears in the vehicle list of both the new camera campaign and an August one.
Updates that complete after the driver locks the truck and walks away are now available across the United States and Canada on the company's newest tractors.
The supplier connected its bus fleet platform to its workshop diagnostic software so technicians can run a full diagnostic session on a vehicle before it arrives, and said the connection is open to rival tools.
The diagnostics arm of FORVIA HELLA launched macsNova, an assistant it said draws on the company's own repair history and no external data, as the intelligence layer of a new tester.
The regulator's notice said an operational deviation or an abnormal download during two 2024 campaigns left the vehicles short of the target software version.
The brake supplier said its update-management system is certified to ISO 24089 and already in series production, and that it is adding an open, manufacturer-independent update hub built with Cojali.
The supplier named secure software update management, vehicle diagnostics and a high-speed truck-trailer connection among the building blocks on its path to the software-defined commercial vehicle.
The supplier's IAA Transportation portfolio put cockpit and vehicle integration platforms, over-the-air-capable computers and an ETAS diagnostic stack built on ASAM SOVD at the center of its commercial-vehicle software case.
Chinese outlets reported that the defunct carmaker's remaining entity told owners that paying third parties to crack and reflash their cars' infotainment systems counts as unauthorized modification, with consequences for warranty cover and possible criminal liability.
NHTSA upgraded a two-year-old Cadillac Lyriq investigation into an engineering analysis covering an estimated 1.16 million General Motors vehicles built with the eBoost brake system, plus two Honda-badged models GM builds under joint venture.
Geely filed two recalls covering 92,915 cars whose lidar power chip may be damaged, and told the regulator it would find the affected vehicles by reading early diagnostic signals from its cloud platform.
The Wuhan software house reported automotive-electronics revenue down 12.60 percent and testing revenue down 56.65 percent, and argued that carmakers are passing price competition upstream.
Hyundai Motor Group's Android Automotive-based cockpit platform reached a production flagship, alongside a cloud-side battery management system that flags anomalies to the driver.
A six-week Department for Transport consultation would write the UN regulation on driver control assistance, the widened automated lane keeping rules and the EU's new secure-diagnostics conditions into the British approval scheme.
A draft amendment would require manufacturers to supply the national inspection body with the encryption source needed to build diagnostic testers, free of charge, ten days before a new model goes on sale.
A display that can fail at startup takes the hazard lights, turn signals and seat-belt warning with it, and the filed remedy is a dealer-applied software update rather than one sent to the car.
The assistant reads a vehicle's real-time telemetry and its owner's manual through the owner app, and Ford said the in-vehicle version would follow by 2027.
The conference program scheduled a Car Hacking Village talk for August 8 whose abstract described reaching a production vehicle's internal network through a rogue DHCP server on its OBD Ethernet port.
An advisory published August 4 said KARR anti-theft systems used one Bluetooth authentication key across devices, letting anyone within radio range open the doors and stop the engine.
Owners running Tesla's older Autopilot computer reported overheating and dropped driver-assistance functions after an over-the-air update, in accounts collected by Electrek that Tesla has not addressed.
GB/T 47439-2026 sets out how workshops should handle high-voltage and hydrogen systems on new-energy vehicles, from risk identification to tool checks.