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Yah, but automakers are very cost-sensitive, and flash memory/NVM is one of the easiest places to penny-pinch. I get crap about 2kB payloads.

Car companies, both electric and non-electric, frequently advertise rated horsepower of their vehicles, even non-performance vehicles. In the US, horsepower is one of the key metri…

As somebody currently working at an automaker on software systems, the amazing thing to me is that a mess up of this level doesn’t happen weekly. It’s rough out here.

Sure, but that’s a lot different from not being able to see them at all.

Do you have a source for this? There’s a gap between semi wheels, sure, but the deck height of a semi trailer in North America is about 48”. If automotive radars weren’t able to de…

What?? Yes, there absolutely were people who were run out of town for being gay. There was indeed rampant homophobia. What world were you living in?

I work in the space and I have not been impressed by the quality of Thatcham’s requirements once you get past the physical domain (door handle pull force, steering column locks, et…

Yep - and not just between automakers, the security model varies wildly between different electrical architectures from the same manufacturer. Like any industry, there are hard pro…

I work at Ford on vehicle access and security and I’m quite familiar with CAN security challenges and solutions. (Of course, I don’t speak for my employer here.) Without speaking s…

This comment touched on a lot of the wrestling that I’ve been doing for the past couple of years with my relationships to productivity, intentionality, and fulfillment. It’s a real…

That’s exactly what they’ve been adding, actually. You can also set a schedule for which mode is active or trigger them with automations.

They control the heat input, too. Software fixes: * limit max current (dumbest) * limit max current based on moving average of current over last N seconds * limit max current based…

Pretty difficult to get a “wallpaper” fix through the processes at an OEM like Ford. (I work there but I’m not involved in this issue.) Automakers have lots of experience making pa…

I live in a major US city and my power goes out at least once every couple of months, sometimes for hours at a time. I have installed several UPSes on important electrical things (…

I live in Detroit, a couple of miles north of downtown. I wouldn’t think twice about wandering around downtown, anywhere downtown, at any hour of the day or night. It’s just not da…

Dude, your argument is “yeah, but what if the Aboriginal Australians actually deserved to be ground into dust”?? The hell?

He… doesn’t have the ability to control whether he stands silently behind other people while they work?

Sure, maybe there’s less need for charge balancing in a smartphone battery, but the rest of the constraints still apply - fast charging is hard!

Yes, it’s true that you can implement a pretty simple generic lithium-ion cell charging algorithm that will get the job done for most cells. But that’s not a “modern battery pack”.…

Hasn’t somebody who is born free and then later purchased and sold as a slave been kidnapped at some point, even if not by the person who is selling them at the international borde…

Firstly, regardless of where a person ends up, if they get there by having several generations of their family kidnapped, enslaved, and systematically mistreated, I think it counts…

I work at a major American automotive OEM on entry and starting systems. Yes, many passive-entry/passive-start systems (like those that use door handle sensors to trigger an unlock…

Agree with this broadly, but also CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards in the US mean that it likely was not possible for Ford to eliminate sedans before CUV fuel econom…

I work in product development at a major global automaker. I have never heard somebody call a BEV program “simple”, and if somebody is trying to sabotage BEV projects, they’re doin…

Firstly, I think there’s a pretty clear difference between enslavement, which is a practice that intentionally deprives human beings of their rights, often violently and often en m…