Strange Incident Where Hundreds of Mazda Cars Broke Down at the Same Time

When the calendar showed January 30, it was produced in Seattle, a city of Washington, between 2014 and 2017. with Mazda vehicles There was a group of people traveling unaware of everything.

They were surprised when their car suddenly broke down. Seems like a mystical event How could this strange incident have happened?

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

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

Of course, the drivers did not understand anything at first. other than themselves Mazda drivers How could they know that the same thing was happening 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 carried image files to be decoded by HD-compatible radios, but KUOW had made a mistake. Folders; “.jpeg, .png, .gif” It was not formatted with extensions like .

Most car radios were not affected by this bug, but Mazdas’ radios were It was designed differently than other cars. We could even say that it was poorly designed.

The software in Mazda vehicles from 2014 to 2017 could not recognize any 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 extension, The computer system was confused as to what had happened.

He went crazy not knowing what to do with the files. It rebooted the system, searched for files in its cache, and rebooted again. To do this; All systems such as navigation, bluetooth, radio It continued until it collapsed.

And this wasn’t the only thing that happened to Mazdas!

In 2019, 2016 model Mazdas were crashing again when they turned on the podcast “99% Invisible”. 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, where the percentage number is clearly stated in the name of their podcast A new “Mazda-friendly” version started publishing.

Incidents like this also raise questions about cars equipped with advanced technologies.

Yes, cars that feature new technologies and take care of everything themselves, leaving the driver with virtually no work, truly provide great comfort. But as with Mazdas, these high technologies sometimes confused It can also cause such problems.

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