[light_hue_1]

It's not that bad, unless you don't have a backup way of getting into your car handy. You create a new account and associate your car with it.

Many people have been bitten by this, it's a common thread on related forums. https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/ford-suspending-acco...

I don't understand Ford, VW, etc. They make these nice cars that are just unusable junk because of their software.

[MBCook]

They are absolutely not unusable junk. I love mine.

But they built up a huge amount of momentum with how they’ve always done things. They didn’t care about software, we know about that from the terrible infotainment systems out there.

Learning that needs changing and the old method can’t be bent to work has been a very hard lesson.

[standyro]

I briefly worked with folks in this industry. They’re generally underpaid and under resourced.

[kjkjadksj]

It costs more time and money to set up these walls vs not bothering. And there was a time when they didn’t bother and hacking was easy. Not just in cars but any consumer facing product running software.

Blame management structure. They hire out security devs because its expected they have a security team like other companies or shareholders pillory them. These security devs trot off doing the expected work they are all trained to do from school or their work at other companies. You end up with the inevitable locked down shitware everyone was hired to make and will make. No one asked for this. They only asked for something one level deeper into the abstraction (shareholders want company to look like other companies to price it appropriately, managers want security team to appease shareholders, security team head wants to see certain things they saw at their last job, security dev wants to deliver and get a raise) but what they got was the chain reaction leading to the user hostile app.