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Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by bondarchuk »

mschuster91 wrote: post #20
hef19898 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, some aircraft I know ran on Windows, including blue screens of death during flight. A switch Win 3.11 solved that.

There are trains still running on the German rail with their displays running Windows 95/98. The embedded world in general is nuts. Unless absolutely necessary, nothing gets upgraded once a system works.

That sounds like the opposite of nuts. What would be nuts is to do a whole bunch of work to upgrade something that's already working for literally no reason at all.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by gwbas1c »

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car?

I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by avar »

_moof wrote: post #12
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll continue driving my loud gas guzzling 19mpg car for as long as I can keep it going because these ultra connected new cars are abominations

A friend works in environmental science and his advice when it comes to cars and climate is to keep your car for as long as possible, regardless of gas vs. electric. Obviously YMMV but generally speaking the emissions "cost" of manufacturing and delivering the car in the first place is huge, and the way the numbers work out, it's better to amortize that over as long a time as you can than it is to frequently buy a re…

Your friend may understand environmental science, but clearly not economics.

If you don't keep your car you'll sell it. You won't be moving the needle on how long it'll take to amortize that initial manufacturing cost, it'll just happen with someone else driving it.

Likewise if you don't buy a new car someone else will, you're not going to move the needle on the overall supply.

I don't recommend buying new cars, but if you consider the above it's pretty much pollution-neutral.

All you're really doing is paying a premium in order to be the first in a long line of owners to drive that vehicle.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by callalex »

The page struggled to load but I eventually succeeded. Here is a summary:

This poster owns a recent model Hyundai car that popped up a notice about changes to their terms and conditions in the privacy policy. The car presents this pop up while the car is in drive and moving at speed, not when it is stopped/parked.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by guntherhermann »

gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Yeah, this'll be the UK.

We use a mix of imperial and metric, so you'll see "300m to next service station" and also "30 mph" speed limits :).

People typically weigh themselves in stone and lbs, yet the food we buy is weighed in grams

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by jcdavis »

gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Definitely not.

Having your fuel economy measured in MPG but having your fuel tank size & fillups measured in L is always a fun game.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by tomxor »

RajT88 wrote: post #18

Just FYI - you can replace your head unit even on newer cars. There's a bustling aftermarket industry for this kind of stuff: https://www.belsee.com/android-car-radio/hyundai-radio.html This way - your data gets abused by the Chinese government instead of Hyundai! (I kid, sort of, but these head units let you exert more control over your car, as they often ship rooted, or can be rooted) If you DIY install the head un…

I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. I'm really not looking forward to when I'm forced to buy a new car - few things make me more mad than smartphone tech with universally slow and terrible UX, duck-taped onto machines, let alone dangerous machines.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by jwells89 »

datalus wrote: post #4

This is why I refuse to buy anything after a certain date when it comes to cars. Luckily I have the ability and resources to maintain and fix my own vehicle.

The unfortunate thing is that sticking to older cars forfeits a lot of safety improvements that've been implemented in the past decade or so, which is more of an issue every day with giant SUVs and trucks having come to dominate the roads.

It's something I've been grappling with lately, with a potential car purchase coming up. I really don't need much more than a mid-late 00s sub-compact Toyota or Honda of some kind but not going with something made in the past ~5 years feels a bit like a gamble.

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