To save you a click: this is not about being able to drive the car.
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#12Thank god we have normal cars as I have never understood the appeal of a smart car since everything a smart car can do can be done with a halfway decent smartphone. * by smart car, I am not talking about self driving cars, I am talking about the gimmick of running some Android and iOS apps on one's car
I use Android auto all the time. Having Google maps on cars dashboard is very useful.
Re: Show HN: Control your Hyundai car with Python
#13Thank god we have normal cars as I have never understood the appeal of a smart car since everything a smart car can do can be done with a halfway decent smartphone. * by smart car, I am not talking about self driving cars, I am talking about the gimmick of running some Android and iOS apps on one's car
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#14Thank god we have normal cars as I have never understood the appeal of a smart car since everything a smart car can do can be done with a halfway decent smartphone. * by smart car, I am not talking about self driving cars, I am talking about the gimmick of running some Android and iOS apps on one's car
Built in navigation in cars is garbage. So is the built in music app. Letting me play what’s on my iPhone is leaps and bounds better than what a car manufacturer can give me.
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#15Thank god we have normal cars as I have never understood the appeal of a smart car since everything a smart car can do can be done with a halfway decent smartphone. * by smart car, I am not talking about self driving cars, I am talking about the gimmick of running some Android and iOS apps on one's car
> Thank god we have normal cars
A disconnected car is a requirement by any parameter of sanity given considerations of security including privacy, within a basic right of rejection of absurdity: but for how long will the "privilege" of avoiding lunacy will be granted?
In Europe already one has to have law-mandated (in terms of shipment) hardware modules removed (the "e-call"). For how long non-connected cars will be available on the market? It is even possible that some rogue legislating body will decide that some connected feature should be mandated...
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#16It reminds me of the slightly funny incident when my brother's boss got stuck midway on the road to his destination, because his Fiskar Karma was having a firmware update
He should have sued.
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#17This is cool (and terrifying)! :-)
Absolutely haha!
I remember being excited when I could remotely control the lights on my table from school (fun little arduino/rpie + led project).
Now we remotely control cars with REST... Indeed cool and terrifying!
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#18Can someone ELI5 how this works? I understand it's sending requests to some API on some server, but what I don't get is how the car receives these commands. What does the entire end-to-end network look like?
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#19I worked for a modern car rental company where you just need to download an app to drive a car.
The tech was super interesting, there are vendors that sell a box with both gsm and ble interfaces and the cars are fitted with these.
You can send messages through ble or their cloud api / gsm. The app needed to first acquire a token to successfully establish a ble connection.
I'm not saying you can't buffer overflow through ble messages but at least the authentication was solid.
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#20Can someone ELI5 how this works? I understand it's sending requests to some API on some server, but what I don't get is how the car receives these commands. What does the entire end-to-end network look like?
A lot of new cars are sold with a gsm module that you don't control