Mazda Bricked by 99% Invisible Bug

In 2014, Mazda owners reported that their car's infotainment systems would crash and become unusable whenever they tried to play the design podcast "99% Invisible." The problem came from a programming bug that misread the characters "% I" in the podcast's title as a command rather than a text string. The error corrupted the system's firmware, leaving radios bricked until dealerships could replace the hardware.

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