When the calendar showed January 30, it was produced between 2014 and 2017 in Seattle, a city in Washington. with Mazda vehicles There was a group of people who weren’t traveling with anything.

They were surprised when their car suddenly broke down. It seems like a mystical event How could this strange incident happen?

They just wanted to have a pleasant journey by listening to the radio.

Drivers traveling in Mazda vehicles on Sunday afternoons KUOW 94.9 They were listening to a called HD radio station. While they were making their journey more enjoyable with music, the car’s Bluetooth, navigation and radio systems suddenly crashed.

Of course, the drivers didn’t understand it at first. different from themselves Mazda drivers How could they know the same thing happened to him? It later turned out that the problem was caused by radio station KUOW 94.9.

A radio station error affected hundreds of Mazdas.

The digital signals contained image files that needed to be decoded by HD-compatible radios, but KUOW had made a mistake. folders; “.jpeg, .png, .gif” It was not formatted with extensions such as .

Most car radios were not affected by this bug, but Mazda radios were It is designed differently from other cars. We might even say it was poorly designed.

The software in Mazda vehicles from 2014 to 2017 could not recognize files without the extension.

So when any of the cars on the road that are set to 94.9 try to automatically download and open these files without an extension, The computer system was confused about what had happened.

He went crazy because he didn’t know what to do with the files. The system was restarted, searched for cached files and restarted. To do this; All systems such as navigation, Bluetooth, radio It continued until it collapsed.

And this wasn’t the only thing happening to Mazdas!

In 2019, 2016 Mazdas crashed again when they turned on the “99% Invisible” podcast. The reason is that the car’s operating system “99% invisible” It was because he tried to use the “%I” part of his name elsewhere!

99% Invisible, with the percentage clearly stated in the name of their podcast A new “Mazda-friendly” version started publishing.

These types of incidents also raise questions about cars equipped with advanced technologies.

Yes, cars that are equipped with new technologies and manage everything themselves, requiring the driver to do virtually no work, really provide a lot of comfort. But like Mazdas, these high-end technologies are sometimes present confused It can also cause such problems.

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