As the outrage grows when people’s cars shut off randomly it will either be removed or a market will develop to disable it.
My last car had an ignition recall and until you could get in you were only supposed to use the key with nothing else attached.
That thing shut off so many times before the recall it scared me but they could never find the problem(sure), they just weren’t forced to release the dangerous problem yet.
Luckily it only happened when I was close to a driveway or parking lot, a few times it was right before a turn on a flashing yellow and could’ve killed me but I pulled into a shop and restarted.
There is a very good reason why farmers are getting into the hacking scene. All that bullshit with John Deere and right to repair.
Edit: I'll just say that I've hooked a laptop up to a car and some dude named Ivan in Ukraine made it work over the internet.
It’s crazy cars can be fixed remotely.
I wish someone would put a car out without all the extra shit, still be nice but without all the fancy shit and easy to fix without having to take it in for every tiny thing and repair it yourself.
You and me both man. As a mechanic I basically repair robots now. That's what they are.
Edit: I've sat on the phone with tuners for hours while I did all the physical stuff and they did the "tuning" to get it to run right.
Edit 2: the worst was a second gen RX7 with an aftermarket PCM. Took a ridiculous amount of time to figure out that the factory crank sensor air gap was not generating enough voltage for the programming in the PCM to recognize the signal. I adjusted it as close as possible to the rotor without it hitting and bam, started right up. Me and the dude on the phone who was a tuner for that company had been pulling our hair out. It was all within the supposed parameters but the software was fucked and it wasn't responding to triggers appropriately.
(post is archived)