To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A recently filed lawsuit illustrates the new litigation challenges that automakers will face as cars incorporate telematics and other connected car technologies. In a class action complaint filed in Bowen v. Porsche Cars N.A., Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on January 29, 2021, the owner of a 2011 Porsche vehicle claimed that a signal transmitted by Sirius XM Radio and “facilitated” by Porsche during a 2020 Memorial Day weekend promotional campaign caused a major malfunction in the “infotainment” system of his and “many” other Porsche vehicles. According to the complaint, after receiving this signal, the installed Porsche Communications Management (PCM) unit “would continuously reboot,” which “prevented Porsche owners from using the PCM . . . drained their car batteries, destroyed their PCM hard drives, and caused countless other inconveniences.”