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'A Dumpster Fire Inside A Train Wreck:' Volvo Is Replacing Every EX90's Central Computer
When the EX90 launched, Volvo promised imminent software fixes for its many bugs. But a year later, the company is making bigger changes.
It's a tacit admission that the company can't solve the EX90's issues while simultaneously launching its next-generation software-defined vehicles, and that it's easier to replace the original computer than to build bug-free software for it. Future improvements were a key selling point of the EX90, which has been marketed as the first European software-defined vehicle (SDV) on sale in the U.S. SDVs offer plenty of advantages over traditionally designed cars, including better software feature integration, lower production costs and theoretically endless upgradeability. Yet all of these benefits come alongside one major risk: If you can't build world-class hardware and software to power the system, your customers are going to have a bad time.
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