chrysler

Given the recent Chrysler hacks it's quite possible that the closed ecosystem approach is what the market wants.

Fiat Chrysler has said vehicle owners are often unwilling to get repairs despite many outreaches from the company.

To me, Fiat Chrysler is doing classic PR damage control that the automotive industry knows far too well.

The fines against Fiat Chrysler top the $70 million the government assessed against Honda Motor Co.

Fiat Chrysler will have an opportunity to recoup some of the financial penalty if it meets certain conditions, the people said.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Fiat Chrysler has threat analysis reports regarding this and other vulnerabilities within their organization.

What Chrysler are doing here is, though, effectively that, and why they have to do that for a computer security issue is interesting.

Fiat Chrysler is expected to sign a consent order agreeing to the penalties, which could be unveiled as soon as Monday, the people said.

Other scrutinized recalls include Fiat Chrysler vehicles with Takata air bags and others with ignition switches that can slip out of the run position.

> The recall doesn’t actually require Chrysler owners to bring their cars, trucks and SUVs to a dealer.

I really can not blame Chrysler when they get defensive about it since that was how vehicles were being built in that time period.

The government penalties target lapses spanning nearly two dozen recalls affecting more than 11 million Fiat Chrysler vehicles, including older Jeeps with rear gasoline tanks linked to numerous fatal fires.

I wonder if the Chrysler CEO is trolling us: "Don't buy the 500e, you get a $45k car for $32k!"

The good that comes out if this is that somewhere in the management chain people will feel justified to increase security investment by saying, "remember the Fiat Chrysler recall?"

From behind the paywall: "The government penalties come days after regulators separately started probing Fiat Chrysler’s handling of recalled vehicles with possible cybersecurity flaws, after hackers commandeered controls of a moving Jeep.

> Chrysler says it’s also taken steps to block the digital attack Miller and Valasek demonstrated with “network-level security measures”—presumably security tools that detect and block the attack on Sprint’s network, the cellular carrier that connect Chrysler’s vehicles to the Internet.

Fiat-Chrysler would like nothing better than pictures of these guys in handcuffs to distract from their fuckup.

Given Toyota's recent $1.2B settlement over the unintended acceleration defect, leaving this door open to hackers could be very costly for Chrysler.

When they cover a recall it's Fiat Chrysler.