Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick
Uniquitous@beehaw.org 6 days ago
I’ve seen EV’s characterized as phones on wheels, and as an owner that seems apt. I envision a hobbyist community for old EV’s developing much in the same way there are groups that tinker with TRS-80s and Apple 2’s. Once support for a platform ends, someone will find a way to root it and then install such mods as seem cool or fun.
fixmycode@feddit.cl 6 days ago
I wonder if in the future, installing your own software in the car will become illegal: given that car software can even control transmission, a car manufacturer could argue that it could compromise safety of the vehicle and pedestrians, an unsafe car framework could mean that someone can potentially program the car to accelerate when frontal sensors detect someone, to be a bit extreme, but don’t tell me its impossible.
Uniquitous@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I think it would be more like the car maker couldn’t be held liable for what the car did if the car was hacked. And good luck getting insurance to cover you if you wrecked your car after hacking it. It would be a strictly at-your-own-risk proposition. And if you hurt anyone else driving a hacked car, woo buddy.