What happens to a vehicle's software after the sale. Coverage follows update pipelines and their failure modes, rollback and recovery, software identification and version provability, and the regulation — UNECE R156 above all — that decides which updates a manufacturer may ship at all.
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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.
Northern.tech released component orchestration in Mender, which holds one desired software state across every processor, microcontroller, operating system, application and AI model in a connected product, with all-or-nothing rollback and a searchable software bill of materials it ties to EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance.
Virtual Vehicle launched Virtual Vehicle OS on factory-installed in-dash displays across three Class 8 truck brands, said it is in pre-series release with North American fleets, and dated commercial availability to early 2027.
The supplier said the SUV, which went on sale on October 23, is the first Dongfeng own-brand model to carry its R7 world model, active when the car is handed over and upgraded afterwards over the air.
Three days after announcing the system in the abstract, Mercedes-Benz said MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO will be orderable in Germany from the first half of 2027, reachable by over-the-air update for existing cars, and portable across the EU on the strength of a UNECE regulation for driver control assistance systems.
At its GM Forward event in New York, General Motors described a propulsion-agnostic electrical architecture that consolidates perception, propulsion, active safety and chassis control onto one central compute unit, debuting on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ before moving into its highest-volume trucks and SUVs.
Daimler Buses said a new electronic architecture reaching Mercedes-Benz and Setra coaches from 2027 will carry remote software updates on selected control units, with the fleet operator deciding when and on which vehicles each update installs.
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.
Four ministries opened comment on a joint notice that would put innovative-design and test-validation evidence inside China's vehicle product filings, and bar makers from accepting a supplier's own validation report for safety-critical software.
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.
Zoox's third operational authorization under its federal exemption opened an operating area in Hayward, California, and re-based its defined terms on the September 2026 revision of SAE J3016.
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.
A secretariat note tabled at the World Forum's general safety working party lists software update identification as a priority subject, with April 2027 and November 2027 attached to the row as adoption dates.
Lucid began delivering a rebuilt Air interface over the air on September 29, and told owners of model year 2022, 2023 and some 2024 cars that reaching it requires a paid infotainment processor swap.
A Shanghai-listed Chinese vehicle company is taking over 265 pieces of test equipment and three unfinished calibration and update-test facilities from Zeekr's research arm, in a related-party deal.
A single paper before the World Forum's general safety working party would write software identification and software-update provisions into regulations covering anti-theft, seats, controls, tell-tales, buses and event recorders at once.
The agency called the industry to a November meeting on why safety recalls go uncompleted, and its notice puts over-the-air software updates, connected-vehicle technology and automated vehicles at the center of the question.
The industry ministry opened a one-week publicity period on the approval draft of a recommended national standard for road vehicle software update engineering, the last consultation step before a standard is issued.
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.
HARMAN joined SDVerse, the business-to-business automotive software marketplace founded by GM, Magna and Wipro, putting named software products and engineering services in front of carmakers as catalog items.
MOLIT, KATRI, KISA, the National Police Agency and Hyundai Motor ran a joint incident-response exercise built around malware distributed to vehicles from a compromised parts supplier's server.
General Motors introduced an all-new user interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, built on what it called a single scalable foundation spanning electric, gas and diesel vehicles.
The company described release 2026.31 as the largest software change in the R1's history, and said it reaches every R1 on the road.
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 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 transport ministry moved the September 1 application date to November 1 for vehicles already in production, citing earthquake damage to suppliers that left ordered cars unbuilt.
A joint notice from MIIT and three sister ministries launched a one-year national inspection campaign that makes driver-assistance validation, cybersecurity and update logging conditions of market access.
The carmaker's interim results paired a 53 percent fall in total profit with rising research spending, the rollout of Coffee Pilot 4 and a cockpit operating system it plans to push to more models by over-the-air update.
A draft mandatory national standard would require Chinese-market vehicles to use approved cryptography to verify software update packages, boot firmware in stages, and authenticate whoever writes calibration parameters through the diagnostic port.
Kaspersky published research on a campaign against Android head units in which the unit's own legitimate update component installed the payload.
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
The remedy for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles is an over-the-air radio software update delivered across all four brands.
The combustion sedan and estate run MB.OS as their central software platform, extending the operating system across the whole model family after the electric C-Class launched on it in April.
The supplier said its EVO platform consolidates processing that commercial vehicles have spread across many individual control units, using Renesas silicon and a Green Hills software architecture that keeps safety-critical functions separated.
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
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.
A staged update released in China on July 31 installs ByteDance's Doubao as an in-car voice assistant, Tesla's first use of a domestic Chinese language model, according to CnEVPost and Sina Finance.
FAW-Volkswagen began taking blind pre-orders for the ID. AURA T6, a battery-electric SUV on the electronic architecture developed with XPeng, according to CarNewsChina.
The cybersecurity and over-the-air updates task force will take up extending RXSWIN to UN R156 and pushing R155 duties down onto components and separate technical units.
Regulator filings cover 39,552 electric sedans with gear-shift and thermal-management software defects — the fix is a free OTA push beginning August 1.
After a 9X owner lost vehicle functions for about 30 hours while traveling abroad, Zeekr promised an OTA-delivered switch for its cross-border restriction, off by default.
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
The Coconut+ 3.1.0 update optimizes navigation and parking assist on 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims, whose NX9031-and-NWM stack outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
Active FSD (Supervised) subscriptions reached 1.48 million, up 56 percent year over year against deliveries up 25 percent, with a record attach rate in North America.
A global OTA update adds native Apple Music integration to Volvo models back to model year 2020, with Spatial Audio on the newest cars.