How a radio station bricked cars’ entertainment systems

[dualstow]

for Mark Leavy:
Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/ra ... t-systems/

Some Mazda owners in the Seattle area are stuck with bricked infotainment systems after listening to a particular radio station.
According to the Seattle Times, the problem began on January 30 and afflicted Mazdas from model years 2014 to 2017 when the cars were tuned to the local NPR station, KUOW 94.9. At some point during the day's broadcast, a signal from KUOW caused the Mazdas' infotainment systems to crash—the screens died and the radios were stuck on 94.9 FM.
From there, the infotainment systems became trapped in a rebooting loop…

[Don]

I knew there was a reason that I never listen to NPR.

[dualstow]

one of many reasons.