If He can't afford 4 grand for a tail light, he shouldn't buy a truck that makes him look like he can afford a $4000 tail light.
The taillights in the Hummer EV have small microcontrollers installed within them.
Well, there's $0.38 of the total cost per unit.
But why? Why does a simple brake light need micro controllers? It's like how cars are eletronic throttle fly by wire BS when a fucking simple bike cable and a spring worked great for decades.
https://poal.co/s/Cars/591347/15ec8295-984d-408f-a8ad-fa37ce6cdf97#cmnts
Because it provides full control over your vehicle and denies ownership to you.
What everyone is moving toward is every part communicates over the CAN bus. This allows for part authentication. Meaning, if you didn't pay full fuck you price at the dealership, they will refuse to acknowledge your light bulb. Likewise, in the short term, before they can clamp everything down, this sets the stage to require "reprogramming" to allow your vehicle to acknowledge the new part.
This is already standard for ECUs, engines, transmissions, 4wd modules, cabin control modules, and so on.
Examples of this is, if you add factory fog lights to your vehicle, you MUST pay to have the serial number of the fog light's microcontroller programmed into the lighting control module. If you don't do this, your fog lights simply won't work without bypassing vehicle integration (different switch).
In modern vehicles, almost nothing is actually a phsyical power toggle switch. Everything simply says, "hey, I'm serial number 1234 and my state is now [1 or 0]." The control module then says, oh, serial number 1234 is the cabin light. I'll now turn that on. Likewise, if it doesn't know 1234 (wasn't programmed), it says, fuck you, I'll ignore that until you pay the money we are extorting from you.
Many modern vehicles already have identification as part of all lights (reverse, brake, head lights, running lights). Some high end vehicles already refuse to power up these lights if the address is not programmed into the corresponding controller. Or, they purposely cause a malfunction (example, tail lights constantly flash, indicating an error).
Yep I know. I have a dodge. If my engine ever blows can I swap in a new one? Nope! Because the ECU, Engine, Tranny, etc etc all have to match. That is unless your the dealer and you can program what ever you want.
My check engine light came on. Couldnt pass emissions. The reason? My AC blower fan stopped working... WTF?
I wish I knew. The article makes some vague statements about functions of the lights, but a simple pulse-width modulator works just fine for brake/park functions.
@Noisysilence did a good write up on it https://poal.co/s/Cars/591347/b55e38bd-31c2-4426-8e5c-91a22e40081a#cmnts
>But why? Why does a simple brake light need micro controllers?
Because it's not made to be used, it's made to be sold, silly...
So some lefty show off assclown is crying it costs $4k for a electric Hummer tail light? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
Fucking morons
PS - They also lied about the costs of the taillight: Car review website the Drive confirmed General Motor’s list price for one tail light is $3,045.
Yeah but what's the 'labor' lol
Pretty much guaranteed I can build a replacement micro controller for under $20 and the taillight assembly is less than 10$ to make.
Without economies of scale…
"Hey if you can't afford the repairs, you should LEARN TO CODE. Maybe then you'll make enough money, okay?"
Imagine the cost to insure one of these. Someone without insurance rear ends you and it's 30k repair or some shit like that. Yikes!
And then people will wonder why there seems to be a sudden increase of murders following rear-end collisions
Lol..
We need them alive so we can garnish their wages.
What an idiot... How the fuck can he not know to simply run a wire from the working tail light over to the broken one and solder on another bulb? Just tape the wire on the back of the truck with duct tape. Rattle-can some packing tape "red" and you got a brake light! How is this not obvious. My farm truck has had this for years. I think I need to replace the tape next year.
You duct tape's warranty may be running out. Call this number to insure your duct tape against expensive repairs before it's too late.
...this is the way.
Imagine how retarded someone has to be to want a microcontroller attached to your individual lights. But this is in place so everything on vehicles can communite with each other, ensuring only certified parts are used. Likewise, everyone continues to move to the mandatory programming model. If you replace a part, the ECU or other module requires reprogramming. Normally they charge 1-2 hours for this, at dealership rates. So expect an additional fee of $120 - $300 just to be allowed to replace a part on YOUR vehicle.
I see absolutely no consumer protection companies suing to ensure programmability remains free and available to owners.
"You will own nothing and be happy."
good, really good
if there is a chance that we survive the enslavement is trough cars and electronics blowing up and/or being too expensive
sheeple ..... no, they are too stupid
vaccine will "naturally select" them
Lighting fixtures? Who buys hummers with lighting fixtures? Hummers were intended for being over to drive up a stupidly steep hill with the ground clearance to get over hippies on bikes. Freakin cup holders are a luxury feature on hummers.
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