Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.
Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.
I can’t wait to not own my car anymore and have all features preinstalled but not working because I didn’t pay enough.
Audi and BMW are doing this for a decade. A friend has an Audi and he cracked the infotainment to have all the smart drive things and sensors for parking
Yo ho ho a new sea to sail under the jolly roger yaharr
I never thought people would be rogering their cars. XD
Brings new meaning to the old “You wouldn’t steal a car” bs
XD Man, times have changed.
An optimist I see
Wonder what they would do if found out. Would they brick the car remotely? Then would it be covered under insurance since the car is totaled if the CPU is bricked. That sure would be an interesting lawsuit to find out about the true ownership of a car.
I assume if you put custom firmware on the car, you’d either tamper with the antenna so this was not possible, or futz with signing keys so the car wouldn’t accept an OTA update from the manufacturer?
It’s an old model, doesn’t have an antenna.
This is trend is happening regardless of whether or not the wheels spin because of batteries or little explosions.
We need to push for consumer protection for all vehicles.
Yup, but it’s easier to lock down an EV because they don’t need to include an OBDII port (no emissions), so there’s really no standards they need to adhere to. So they just remove pretty much all choice at the start so people don’t get mad later when they remove features in future models.
ICE cars need to do it more slowly to properly boil the frog.
Also my car updating overnight and the update broke my brakes and I am dead the next day.