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There would be measures in place to prevent this, of course. They'd have to be more robust than Redbox scanning for fake DVD returns, but you could sign the bat

There would be measures in place to prevent this, of course. They'd have to be more robust than Redbox scanning for fake DVD returns, but you could sign the battery firmware, do challenge/response, etc. before allowing the swap to happen. All automatic of course. And if your battery turns out to be an elaborate fake - well, we know whose car it came from, considering they drove it to the station with a license plate attached.

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chii 7y ago
> you could sign the battery firmware, do challenge/response, etc. before allowing the swap to happen so either you're only allowed to swap batteries at these authorized stations (akin to today having a car that can only use petrol purchased from a particular brand of station), or it's trivially easy to swap it yourself (or with some easy to obtain equipment, like today's car oil change). If it's the first case, then these cars are DRM'ed to hell and back. Not a good world for the consumer. If it's the latter, then battery swapping will happen. It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law applied to batteries.
- bamboozled 7y ago
  You could very easily have standards in place to ensure compatibility between garages ?