Chrysler filed a second rearview-camera radio recall covering trucks in the first
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.
Diagnostics & Service
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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Volvo Trucks finished its North American rollout of unattended software updates
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.
ZF linked bus telematics to workshop diagnostics over a CAN tunnel
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.
Hella Gutmann built a workshop diagnostics AI on its own repair records only
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.
BMW recalled 218 cars in China because an earlier recall's software update never installed
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.
Knorr-Bremse put an ISO 24089-certified software update system into series production
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.
ZF sets out its software-defined truck roadmap around updates, diagnostics and a data link
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.
Bosch details central vehicle computers and SOVD diagnostics for software-defined trucks
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.
JiYue told owners that cracking a head unit may break China's cybersecurity law
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 widened its GM brake probe to every vehicle sharing the eBoost system
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 recalled 92,915 cars for a lidar fault it will trace by cloud diagnostics
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.
Kotei's automotive revenue fell and its software-testing line more than halved
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.
Genesis put Hyundai's Pleos Connect and cloud battery diagnostics into the GV90
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.
UK consults on mandating UN R171 driver assistance in GB type approval
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.
Korea would make carmakers hand inspectors the security keys to EV diagnostics
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.
Toyota recalled 508,354 Camry Hybrids over an instrument cluster software fault
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.
Ford opened its AI assistant to 8 million owners and added Gemini in the cockpit
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.
DEF CON talk described a DHCP attack on a car's Ethernet diagnostics interface
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.
CISA flags a shared Bluetooth key in dealer-fitted car alarms that can immobilize engines
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.
Tesla owners report Hardware 3 computer failures after the FSD v14 Lite update
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.
China's first national standard for EV service safety takes effect
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.