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Over-the-air vehicle updates can help dealership service departments

Tesla regularly provides over-the-air updates of the software in its electric vehicles to add features, fix glitches and expand performance options.
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Richard Truett
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Fixed Ops Journal
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December 16, 2019 01:00 AM

We've known for a long time that over-the-air updates (OTAs) — software reflashes transmitted directly to connected vehicles — will migrate from luxury to mainstream brands. We just didn't know which mass-market automakers would press the button first.

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