Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them
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A local dnsmasq[1] is the simplest solution for tech people, and decent odds you already have a local resolver anyway.
0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
1. https://gist.github.com/ardislu/b2f2b4b439c5da2f7ccb6bb42e7a...
If I buy a game on steam, I should be allowed to sell it. Just like I’d be allowed to sell a physical game.
If I buy a game, no DRM claim should be able to claw back that game from me.
It's the exact same product - the perceived difference is a mirage. Digital media is the only product that works this way, and it's stupid.
Platforms and stores would have to, I don't know, actually compete then. Who offers the better experience? The better price? The better device? Not "You bought your shit here, so you're stuck. Sorry"
Platform holders should take a cut of anything sold on their platform, but it's because a user chose to buy it from them because they offer a better service, not because it's the only way they can use it.
My reservations about DRM aside, you can still achieve this without dropping DRM. It would have copy protection still.
The seller isn't selling it to you. They're "licensing" it to you. You could "sell" the license. That's just paperwork (that they in no way are obligated to make easy or support facilitating your ability to do, mind.)
This is the new world that the business schools have wrought for you. Don't you like it?
"If I buy a car, I should be able to drive thru train tunnels."
His fuel pump management module died. That was weird enough to me. Why does a fuel pump need a module? Just give it 12v and call it a day, like cars have done for 50 years.
Gets even better. He bought a used one off eBay. Wouldnt work. The module needs to be programmed to his Vin#. Why??? Security? What security, when the programmers are available online, craigslist people will do it for you, mechanics have the tools, and even if you went to a dealer I somehow doubt they check against some theft database or anything. It's all insane.
The transponder in the key bow or your keyfob is checked by the car and it needs to see the right key for those parts to function.
This is part of the anti-theft to stop simple hot wiring. Although I will be honest seems more like away for dealerships to charge an insane amount for new keys.
If I am being generous the security would be trying to stop the car running in the event those are tampered with but I don’t entirely believe it.
To be more fuel-efficient? Or to block the fuel line for anti-theft purposes?
The software part of their houses is total mess, but they won't just arbitrarily add pieces of hardware that don't make any sense to someone (you, them, dealership, or some government) - that'd be a waste of money.
No, what I need is a manufacturer that is willing to sell at reasonable price the parts, diagnostic/repair tools and documentation to any car owner or repair shop without any delays or restrictions.
Even better, I would like a car that doesn't save and/or transmit to the manufacturer any information about my car usage and location. Or a manufacturer that supports my right to modify the car any way that I wish. But those two are completely different topics. Related, but not the same as right-to-repair.
There's a startup that is making a pledge to support your right to repair, but they are not manufacturing their cars yet. And honestly, their cars aren't for everybody: https://aptera.us/right-to-repair-commitment-feat-rich-rebui...
Couldn't imagine being stuck in an overpriced spyware cage.
For the price of a modern, cellular tracking device with wheels you can buy a classic retro "sleeper" car that's an EV with hundreds of miles of charging capacity.
Bespoke EVs, for the win!
For the people who can do it it's great, but most just can't. I can barely change my tires, how would I swap an entire drivetrain and rewire the whole thing?
Just buy and drive a used car. Making more waste is a bigger net environmental harm than running the ice engine.
I would
Resell value greatly increased when a professional warranty is applied to your conversion.
From the third one:
Price Range: Turn key conversion - contact for a quote, DIY kits $19,185 to $22,500
Can you link to a kit you'd recommend?
Further, it omly delays the inevitable. One day there's not going to be enough vehicles left to convert that one can readily find parts for.
Actually owning the vehicle, paying less for it, having a less complex more reliable vehicle, having a vehicle I can maintain myself, having a vehicle that obeys my commands rather than deciding on its own to refuse to run or to slam on the brakes, a vehicle that doesn't phone home data about me and my driving, is so much more important to me than a lottery ticket odds difference in whether I might die.
In 1985, before airbags etc: 2.5 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.
In 2000, after airbags: 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.
After 2010, with extra safety systems: Around 1.1 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.
it will popup with a message like: your honda civic just tried to send a video payload over cellular to analytics.honda.com, allow or deny?
driving a car without it will feel like running a macbook with littlesnitch. disgusting.
How did this comment die so fast? It's a valid point of view. I also much prefer older cars. Late 80s ones are getting hard to find in decent condition though but I would certainly consider one if available.
The problem with old cars as the solution is that first and foremost, that's obviously not a long term solution or one that will work for car buyers as a whole. Not everyone is going to be OK with buying a 34 year old car, and even fewer are going to be OK buying a 44 year old car 10 years from now. Even if they were, cars don't last forever and eventually we'll all be in a bidding war over the last analog car.
That approach also throws the baby out with the bathwater. Infotainment aside, new cars are vastly better than old cars in a number of areas. Safety, comfort, efficiency, reliability, performance, etc. Missing all this because modern infotainment features are bad does not seem like a good tradeoff, particularly since new cars will continue to progress in all those areas while old cars obviously won't. The smartphone comparison is actually pretty appropriate here, because a modern smartphone is a huge improvement for the vast majority of people over an old dumb phone, even if the improvement comes with some tradeoffs.
Instead I think it would be more useful and realistic to push for more consumer friendly car technology, either by voting with our wallets or pushing for appropriate legislation. Pretending cars peaked the year Taylor Swift was born does not feel like the right alternative, even if some people do genuinely like older cars.
I think that's the big problem, it's not a major consideration for most people. I would imagine that there would be some motivation in terms of a more easily repairable car also being cheaper to have someone else repair even if you don't want to do it yourself, but I'm not sure if that makes a difference in reality. Like I have zero interest in fixing my own car beyond simple stuff, but if a more open car saved me a lot of money at the mechanic, I could see the benefit.
Tell that to Cubans.
We were a bit bruised but everyone walked away. I consider us lucky the pickup driver hadn't modified their truck and it had the OEM ride height and bumpers. Lots of people like deleting their bumpers and lifting the truck. that would have been so bad.
Standardization still works between companies (e.g., interfaces between parts for computers, that are put together by computer-manufacturers), but not where there is no advantage for any company.
A bit of plastic for an over-priced OEM infotainment module is more useful than being able to switch suppliers for radios easily.
So you can't no longer buy such cars. And in case you go for the used market, regulations will keep you away from cities due to polution issues, even for tiny cities.
Just because a law has a side effect you don’t like doesn’t mean the Illuminati are out to get you.
What is safest. Regulating new cars to expensive safety standards, and make them unaffordable for the masses or being more conservative about such standards and allow affordable cars to exist?
European govermentes have chosen the first option. In the meantime, the car average age keep increasing. Much safer, indeed.
The end goal is to have much less cars on the road, not conspiracy, but an actual statement. And of course, the cars to get rid of are not those of the wealthy.
No. They are not required to "be" online but just capable to connect if/when an accident occurs.
That these modules that can connect are abused to always be connected is an invention of the manufacturers.
Does that mean online as in internet connection or just GSM?
The poster is shadowbanned and seemingly has been for a while, so their posts are autodead. Enough people vouching for it should un-dead the post.
Which model(s)?