Posted on 11/20/2021 6:47:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Exactly this. Anyone who drives an electric vehicle is a subject.
This is why “cryptocurrency” is a scam. Power outage or system SNAFU, your money is unavailable when you could probably REALLY USE IT.
Remember Trumpy saying after an air disaster that jetliners have “too much electronic and AI control” to the point that it was unsafe?
This junk is a gimmick and yes - it’s to control people and make everyone less able to do things for him/herself. If the power grid or the Tesla servers go down in the middle of a riot and you’re trying to get home from work....
Teaching the kid to drive in 2025: “Now, Junior, remember you turn on ‘tracking’ on your phone and it’s THIS button, not this one! And no falling asleep! Haha, the world is a beautiful place! Besides, if you sleep while you’re driving your clothes get wrinkled!”
Junior: Wow, Dad, thanks! *jumps in car* *pushes buttons* *car starts, backs out of driveway, disappears into the distance*
*Dad stands smiling proudly*
*several minutes pass*
*police sirens*
*Dad gets a worried look on his face, takes cigarettes out of shirt pocket, starts to light one*
*”Family communication drone” appears overhead*
Drone: PUT DOWN THE TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND BUTANE LIGHTER. YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO COMPLY.
They should be happy they weren’t locked inside the car.
Correct!
Computerized ABS - required
Computerized emissions control system - required
Computerized ignition system - required
Computerized TPMS - required
Computerized ______ - required
etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum
How can this be? There is a back up to starting cars that looks like a credit card.
Reminds me of the scene from the original movie Westworld where the scientists got trapped in their lab when the electronic doors wouldn’t open.
48 hours for Apple products.
Second service pack for Microsoft products.
Indeed some wonder why they still make wind up clocks.
It’s a feature...
I had a Peugeot 404 (it came with a hand crank!)
I understand why the french burn their cars in any riot.
> They should be happy they weren’t locked inside the car.
Or stuck on a broken escalator.
At least for some models, if the fob battery dies, you can still start the engine by putting it the against the start button. I’m not sure how it works, but my guess is RFID.
Using a smartphone app seems to make it more convenient to start one’s car. But it creates an additional dependency: if your smartphone doesn’t work or the app doesn’t work, you’re stuck.
Just like the “smart” house locks that don’t work if your network goes down. (”stupid” fits better than “smart.”)
Look 10 years in the future. “Self-driving” cars are now all over, and rapidly replacing normal cars. The government, (don’t be surprised!) has control of the Master Control Computer that controls each individual “self-driving” car and the entire set of them. Your vaccine “passport” is flashing red because you didn’t get the one hundred and twenty-fifth booster shot. You walk.
“The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”
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A co-worker of mine once said:
If we try hard enough, we can fix it and make it worse.
Something analogous applies here.
Like mine-—the kind that costs me about $3.50 to get duplicates???
That have worked for me for 41 years & 36 years respectively???
That worked for the prior owners of those same vehicles???
MY phone lives on the living room table...Period.
Bingo
” but people get use to the convenience”
Grammar Police Alert!
I had to look it up because I wasn’t sure either. The correct use is, “get used to.”
(Sorry, my mom was an English teacher)
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