It sucks that it’s against a companies best interest to make a car that you can repair and maintain by yourself indefinitely. I can get electric motors, more energy efficient and potentially more environmental. But stuffing a car full of electronics that mimic what used to be mechanical dials and knobs is just building in an early death to the vehicle that doesn’t need to be there. Not to mention the fact that vehicles are now being built with the ability to be unlocked with something like the flipper which is an active downgrade.
One piece that was included in a recent bill required new cars to come equipped with “safety” features that allow the engine to be shut off remotely. We have various other laws on the books like this, at least in the US, that prevent manufacturers from making basic vehicles any more and it fucking sucks.
The more and more I grow older, despite me being tech savvy and liking new innovations, I am getting tired of new features that end up being one more thing to break and leave me stranded somewhere or yet another security vulnerablity waiting to be exploited.
Thankfully we do have grandfather clauses that allow us to build our own vehicles without all that crap and can buy older vehicles and replace the combustion engine with an electric one. It’s just sad that it’s such a hassle to do and can’t buy a kit that allows this with little to no hassle.
It sucks that it’s against a companies best interest to make a car that you can repair and maintain by yourself indefinitely. I can get electric motors, more energy efficient and potentially more environmental. But stuffing a car full of electronics that mimic what used to be mechanical dials and knobs is just building in an early death to the vehicle that doesn’t need to be there. Not to mention the fact that vehicles are now being built with the ability to be unlocked with something like the flipper which is an active downgrade.
We can thank laws for that too.
One piece that was included in a recent bill required new cars to come equipped with “safety” features that allow the engine to be shut off remotely. We have various other laws on the books like this, at least in the US, that prevent manufacturers from making basic vehicles any more and it fucking sucks.
The more and more I grow older, despite me being tech savvy and liking new innovations, I am getting tired of new features that end up being one more thing to break and leave me stranded somewhere or yet another security vulnerablity waiting to be exploited.
Thankfully we do have grandfather clauses that allow us to build our own vehicles without all that crap and can buy older vehicles and replace the combustion engine with an electric one. It’s just sad that it’s such a hassle to do and can’t buy a kit that allows this with little to no hassle.