Eventually vehicles will be more like the other tech in your life, sorry you want to but tires from a company that we don’t approve of, not going to happen because we approve the tires to work with our system and the tire pressure monitor is only compatible with Bridgestone tires. Plus they add 30% to the price of the tires for their testing and making sure that they work, nothing to do with profit.
Or like the cell phone industry, you go and fill up with gas, now there’s still gas remaining in the car near the end of the month, next thing you know the gas station employee is there to siphon out the gas you didn’t use. Well that might be a bit far fetched.
Throw a stupid chip into anything and then someone else has the control, which really is what the governments of the world want, they’ve had it with people getting ahead and questioning their decisions after all they know better than you and they will lead you.
Don’t laugh, but BMW in kinda like that with their BMW approved “star spec” tires. Transfer case blows up with non approved tires? Too bad. But the star spec version is different than the normal retail version, they are actually better.
Off the shelf parts and open source designs are the antidote. Something like the defunct Local Motors was just a bit early for helping solve a problem like this. Having a factory or workshop for those without the infrastructure themselves to build their own solution would have been a major boon to giving alternatives to the “you will own nothing and be glad for it” mentality all manufacturers seem to be taking nowadays.
The stupid chips can phone home to somewhere else other than a manufacturer. They can talk with something like my self hosted home assistant instance through a VPN instead. The chips are just a tool for doing a job. Best to make them do work for you instead of a data grabbing, rent seeking manufacturer.
Eventually vehicles will be more like the other tech in your life, sorry you want to but tires from a company that we don’t approve of, not going to happen because we approve the tires to work with our system and the tire pressure monitor is only compatible with Bridgestone tires. Plus they add 30% to the price of the tires for their testing and making sure that they work, nothing to do with profit.
Or like the cell phone industry, you go and fill up with gas, now there’s still gas remaining in the car near the end of the month, next thing you know the gas station employee is there to siphon out the gas you didn’t use. Well that might be a bit far fetched.
Throw a stupid chip into anything and then someone else has the control, which really is what the governments of the world want, they’ve had it with people getting ahead and questioning their decisions after all they know better than you and they will lead you.
Don’t laugh, but BMW in kinda like that with their BMW approved “star spec” tires. Transfer case blows up with non approved tires? Too bad. But the star spec version is different than the normal retail version, they are actually better.
https://youtu.be/cR47GRWuPb0
People who buy BMW deserve everything they get.
Trains are the solution.
Off the shelf parts and open source designs are the antidote. Something like the defunct Local Motors was just a bit early for helping solve a problem like this. Having a factory or workshop for those without the infrastructure themselves to build their own solution would have been a major boon to giving alternatives to the “you will own nothing and be glad for it” mentality all manufacturers seem to be taking nowadays.
The stupid chips can phone home to somewhere else other than a manufacturer. They can talk with something like my self hosted home assistant instance through a VPN instead. The chips are just a tool for doing a job. Best to make them do work for you instead of a data grabbing, rent seeking manufacturer.
Don’t worry you can watch a minority get brutalized by the government as a consolation prize for your freedom