UK users are unable to access BMW’s ConnectedDrive, which connects mobile phones to their vehicle dashboard, due to a blip following a data migration, BMW executives have revealed.
The issue was uncovered when a customer was unable to register for ConnectedDrive this month. After contacting BMW’s helplines, The Register reported that the customer received an email about a “…major European outage of ConnectedDrive escalated to BMW UK and BMW AG Germany, and the board.”
The customer service representative added: “IT partners are working on the issue but they have informed us the problem requires complete re-programming at the server end, and starting again from scratch. No idea how long this will all take…”
After contacting a “more senior ConnectedDrive executive”, IT news website The Register added, the customer was advised that the problems were due to a system upgrade.
“BMW UK, which had been using the same ConnectedDrive system for the last seven years, is currently updating its systems. BMW in Germany is migrating all the data from the old system to the new one, which, unfortunately has had an effect on the application part of our website. BMW UK hasn’t yet been told when services are likely to be resolved.”
The outage affects drivers’ ability to connect their mobile phones to their dashboards to make calls, e-mails and to control their GPS.
The outage poses no risk to the safety of drivers, however it will embolden critics who believe the car manufacturing industry is not prepared for the switch from hardware manufacturing to software implementation.
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