Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked
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Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked
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#2Related:
Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server
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#3That's pretty cruel of Cory Doctorow.
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#4This is a perfect example of why the market doesn't always produce the kind of product that consumers would prefer. Despite this sort of server integration being a terrible design for customers, investors absolutely love a platform like this for lock-in and rent extraction.
A company needs funding before it can even start making a hardware project on the scale of a car, and it is vastly easier to obtain funding for a project like this than for one that would not screw over customers. Free markets are usually great, but they can have terribly misaligned incentives at times.
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#5This is a perfect example of why the market doesn't always produce the kind of product that consumers would prefer. Despite this sort of server integration being a terrible design for customers, investors absolutely love a platform like this for lock-in and rent extraction. A company needs funding before it can even start making a hardware project on the scale of a car, and it is vastly easier to obtain funding for a…
the company went bankrupt- i think the market worked in this instance.
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#6Parts pairing is rampant in the automotive industry. Why isn't that banned in Oregon?
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#7> A "software-based car" gets to mobilize the state to enforce its "IP," which allows it to force its customers to use authorized mechanics...
Doctorow has a good point here.
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#8This is a perfect example of why the market doesn't always produce the kind of product that consumers would prefer. Despite this sort of server integration being a terrible design for customers, investors absolutely love a platform like this for lock-in and rent extraction. A company needs funding before it can even start making a hardware project on the scale of a car, and it is vastly easier to obtain funding for a…
the company went bankrupt- i think the market worked in this instance.
By a narrow definition of 'worked'. There are a lot of bricked cars out there, unless someone cracks them or the new buyer can revive the systems needed.
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#9What does being EV have anything to do with bricking it?
Why was it bricked in first place? Cars don't brick themselves by entering tunnel or driving in wilderness.
I get it, he has to keep stirring up controversy to stay relevant, but Cory sometimes looses his marbles over irrelevant crap.
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#10What does being EV have anything to do with bricking it? Why was it bricked in first place? Cars don't brick themselves by entering tunnel or driving in wilderness. I get it, he has to keep stirring up controversy to stay relevant, but Cory sometimes looses his marbles over irrelevant crap.
I’m not even convinced that the cars won’t work without working servers. All of the links in TFA are behind a paywall I’m not going to bother working around, but is there any evidence that Fiskers need a home to phone in order to keep working? Or is it that one can’t remotely start the vehicle (as one example) without working servers?
‘Cuz $DEITY knows that “bricked” has a very wide range of colloquial definitions.