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> The feature is standard equipment on nearly all vehicles from the same period made by other manufacturers. Even worse, that feature has been pretty common on
by rootusrootus 4y ago
> The feature is standard equipment on nearly all vehicles from the same period made by other manufacturers.
Even worse, that feature has been pretty common on mainstream vehicles since the 90s.
- kube-system 4y agoWhich makes it an excellent opportunity to undercut competitors by a hundred bucks.
- owenmarshall 4y agoI wonder how systemic these kinds of shortcuts are in the wider market, not just automotive. How many problems that were solved in expensive ways decades ago are lurking beneath the surface, waiting to be discovered again because the problem - and solution! - are effectively invisible to most consumers?
- kube-system 4y agoPretty much everything. The practice of engineering is as much an exercise in knowing what problems to solve as it is a practice in knowing which problems you can get away with not solving.
- rodgerd 4y agoIt's interesting to me that there's a similar problem in New Zealand with NZ-new and second-hand imports of the same model cars: the Toyota Prius C and Toyota Aqua are the same vehicle, but Aquas that were imported second-hand from Japan don't typically have immobilisers, and are heavily targeted for theft. Given that ex-Japan models of cars are typically higher-spec than NZ-new equivalents, it's seems an odd difference; I have to wonder if there are differences in car theft rates in Japan or South Korea that play into the difference in what is a pretty basic piece of equipment in Western markets.
- ggreer 4y agoSouth Korea has 5.3 car thefts per 100k people per year. Japan has 28.1. The US has 268.2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_theft#Motor_vehicle_thefts,_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_theft#Motor_vehi...