Finally some good news. Less cars is a global good thing.
People will just keep driving their older cars which pollute even more.
Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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You don't need to ever rekey an SSH private-public key pair. Still, a single hands-free token can be taken by force or stolen.
So can car key... I don't really have a car and probably never will were I truly worried that it was essentially single factor authentication.
But the car key + separate wireless immobilizer token is 2FA and it makes me somewhat confident.
WRT keyless entry, I actually have figured it out. Central wireless lock is cool. It's keyless start that I'm opposed to.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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Scalpers are not the problem as they seem, they are like market makers for stock exchanges. They buy low and sell high, always. The factory could tell you that they're currently out of stock for the next few months, but a scalper will never be out of stock, because their prices rises so high that only very few desperate companies would buy. The point is, it's better to have the option to buy something at a high price…
Negative. Like scalping everywhere, they're middlemen who contribute nothing to society, and make it more difficult for people who do.
So, you may be right about scalpers providing nothing to society. But you are absolutely wrong about middle men in general. At a super high level, they have to provide value else they would be short circuited. Very often this value is in knowledge, both product knowledge, customer knowledge, and market fit. A good middle man can tell you that the thing you think you want won't fit your needs as well as some other product (bonus points if the product isn't something they personally sell). You will also find a high correlation between the health of an economy, and the number of middlemen present. It's actually something that has concerned me in the US for several years, that too many companies have been squeezing out the middle. I think it's exacerbated the current supply chain issues.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
#204Tesla has done a decent job of mitigating some of the chip shortages since they are so vertically integrated. Though obviously Tesla produces way less cars than Toyota/Honda/VW. But other manufacturers simply can't do this even if they wanted to since they outsource most of this stuff. > “We were able to substitute alternative chips, and then write the firmware in a matter of weeks,” Musk said. “It’s not just a matte…
They also just completely dropped a feature - radar - because they couldn't get parts for it. I'm not sure other manufacturers would be able to do that either due to internal processes or being able to risk their reputation.
Volvo dropped a security package too because of the chip shortage: "Volvo is contacting customers who have specified the Driver Awareness package to ask if they want to continue with their orders without the equipment, or wait until the kit becomes available once more."
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news-manufacturi...
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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In the United States backup cameras, tire pressure monitors, and electronic stability control are required by law. So out of your list that leaves.. GPS (already optional on most cars) Ass warmers (already optional on most cars) Telemetry (this could be removed from models that have it, not all cars sold today have telemetry) USB chargers (really don't think USB chargers are causing a production shortage at this mome…
I tried to buy a car without AC, but as it turns out that’s almost impossible. They had never imported that model without AC and the waiting time was pretty long, because they where not really built in large numbers. The models without AC mostly exist so they can produce ads saying “available from less than X“
What's the point of buying a car without A/C? You might save $1000 now, but you'll lose several thousand at trade-in time because no one else will want your car.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also just completely dropped a feature - radar - because they couldn't get parts for it. I'm not sure other manufacturers would be able to do that either due to internal processes or being able to risk their reputation.
Tesla dropped radar because they are moving to vision only systems like how the Comma AI/OpenPilot works. Vision models are superior to radar since radar can't detect stopped obstacles.
From their comments about it being a setback, it doesn't sound like it was planned to happen so quickly.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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The "religious reasons" he's talking about are "zero inventory" or "JIT inventory" pioneered by Japanese auto makers in the 80s and 90s. By optimizing inventory management and understanding demand for your product, you can ensure you don't have excess inventory on-site (meaning you don't have money invested in product parts you can't sell and have to pay taxes on). It's the system that virtually every manufacturer (a…
My understanding is that JIT, as performed by Toyota, takes into account the differences in difficulty of sourcing different inventories. If this is true, one would expect that Toyota faced shortages later than other manufacturers. Does anyone have a source proving or disproving this?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/how-toyot...
It wasn't enough it seems.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
So can car key... I don't really have a car and probably never will were I truly worried that it was essentially single factor authentication.
But the car key + separate wireless immobilizer token is 2FA and it makes me somewhat confident. WRT keyless entry, I actually have figured it out. Central wireless lock is cool. It's keyless start that I'm opposed to.
And how often you keep those separate and operate the car? Can you even safely store one in safe place and still use the car? Or is there more factors. Which then increases the potential failure cases. And I prefer really not to involve anything like pin codes, fingerprints, facial recognition needed for me to drive my own car.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
#209They used to be big back in the day when hot hatches ruled and we had Golf vs Astra (Vauxhall for the UK) but then we got crossovers and mini-SUV and GM had their own problems to invest in the brand. Nowadays they make rebadged Peugeot/Citroen cars.
I’m no fan but it’s reductive to call them rebadged Peugeots. Like just about any car you buy, including a Rolls Royce, they are built using a shared platform. In this case, it’s one of the Stellantis platforms.
Rolls Royce has actually been moving _away_ from shared platforms; only the Wraith and Dawn (both in their final year of production) are on a shared platform.
Certainly there's still shared components with BMW, but they've gone back to being more bespoke.
Re: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
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Indeed. We have an aging Audi that has adaptive cruise control. Recently the radar unit failed. To get it replaced at a dealer will cost about half of what the car is worth.
what, on an aging audi, _doesn't_ cost half the value of the vehicle to fix? i've heard the same complaint about basically every part of an audi except the tires.
Audi seems to be the brand for people who want a VW, but want to pay extra for it. It’s like the mirror image of Skoda or SEAT (VAG’s more ‘budget’ brands).