Title: Subaru partnered with a service called STARLINK which shares your location in the event of collisions, among other things.<p>STARLINK intermittently tries to phone home by hitting 3G towers.<p>Now that 3G is shutting down, the digital communications module (DCM) gets stuck in an infinite loop of<p>1. Phone home, expending battery charge
2. Fail, because 3G doesn&#x27;t work anymore
3. Go back to step 1<p>This effectively remotely drains the battery of every Subaru Outback  built between 2015 and 2020.<p>Even if you drive your car every day, its battery will die and you won&#x27;t be able to start it.<p>Other models are probably affected, too.<p>There was a class action lawsuit. But this is a pretty egregious engineering oversight, given they were still producing defective cars in 2020, hardly two years before 3G flipped off.<p>Will a brand ever produce a reliable, mechanical car? Why should 3G towers have anything to do with my car being able to start?
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