Chinese electric car blocked the passengers in the cabin, while there was a system update
News Technologies / / December 19, 2019
It would seem, it has begun! But no, the man screwed himself.
The other day one of the cars EV NIO startup when trying to install a new version of firmware is stuck on the track in Beijing. And everything would be fine, but the whole process of replacing the firmware to the latest version of the car decided to lock the doors and windows, not letting passengers.
Locked inside were representative of NIO and the driver tester electric car. Their captivity lasted more than one hour. During this time, the car was repeatedly approached the police, but to clarify the situation the passengers they could not, since even the side windows drop was not.
Representatives of the company NIO later commented on the incident, saying that they will optimize the process of confirming the wireless network updates.
However, particularly in this situation it is not so clear. After the update has started the driver himself, while being in a traffic jam on the highway. To do this, of course, it was impossible. Before downloading the firmware notifies the system that need to
park the carBecause during the installation of some of the functions of the machine will be disabled.