Industry wise recalls are very much a thing, and nearly bankrupt companies in the regular. On car engines. Those are the ‘programming’ (aka design) bugs from the manufacturer.
The difference here is rather different than you’re presenting - individual cars/trucks are so expensive that one off fixes (replacing the equivalent of RAM, or a CPU, or rigging some weird combination of drives/accessories) even on really old individual machines is economic. That’s what those repair shops are doing.
also changing anything physical on a car (or even having a human of known level of knowledge verifiably look at it) is expensive and difficult to scale. And unlike computers, cars/trucks are 90% or more physical.
And while a single truck or car breaking down is localized, so is a typical PC, tablet or phone.
Computers are typically so cheap and the technology is progressing so rapidly, it’s rarely economically worthwhile to do that kind of thing. Occasionally, yes. But Certainly not at the scale cars/trucks are.
Having someone do custom work to fix the design (aka ‘fix the programming’) is relatively rare, and more of a hobbyist thing. But does happen (project cars, open source hobby projects). Though exceptions abound for simple fixes. (Which can also typically be done for individual computers through normal configuration/customization settings, or some software).
Cars and trucks are very complicated, just in ways that a techie may not recognize. Bolt patterns. Offsets. Metric vs SAE. Vacuum line levels. Metallurgy. Heat treatments. Tolerances. Hell even DC voltage levels can come into play sometimes (12v vs 24v). Vehicle communication bus type (CAN vs something else).
And working in physical parts is extremely expensive, error prone, and slow.
Industry wise recalls are very much a thing, and nearly bankrupt companies in the regular. On car engines. Those are the ‘programming’ (aka design) bugs from the manufacturer.
The difference here is rather different than you’re presenting - individual cars/trucks are so expensive that one off fixes (replacing the equivalent of RAM, or a CPU, or rigging some weird combination of drives/accessories) even on really old individual machines is economic. That’s what those repair shops are doing.
also changing anything physical on a car (or even having a human of known level of knowledge verifiably look at it) is expensive and difficult to scale. And unlike computers, cars/trucks are 90% or more physical.
And while a single truck or car breaking down is localized, so is a typical PC, tablet or phone.
Computers are typically so cheap and the technology is progressing so rapidly, it’s rarely economically worthwhile to do that kind of thing. Occasionally, yes. But Certainly not at the scale cars/trucks are.
Having someone do custom work to fix the design (aka ‘fix the programming’) is relatively rare, and more of a hobbyist thing. But does happen (project cars, open source hobby projects). Though exceptions abound for simple fixes. (Which can also typically be done for individual computers through normal configuration/customization settings, or some software).
Cars and trucks are very complicated, just in ways that a techie may not recognize. Bolt patterns. Offsets. Metric vs SAE. Vacuum line levels. Metallurgy. Heat treatments. Tolerances. Hell even DC voltage levels can come into play sometimes (12v vs 24v). Vehicle communication bus type (CAN vs something else).
And working in physical parts is extremely expensive, error prone, and slow.