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Seem like time to start prioritizing projects like restoring an old car, maybe even pre-ECU/fuel injected, or doing an electric conversion, just so we an have a
by toss1 3y ago
Seem like time to start prioritizing projects like restoring an old car, maybe even pre-ECU/fuel injected, or doing an electric conversion, just so we an have a car that is a car and not a spyware platform.
I can certainly appreciate how a car company would find all the data fantastic for legit purposes of understanding how their products are used and improving the products. But the externalized costs on the customer of the inevitable data breaches... at least make the data connection and collection opt-in.
- ornornor 3y agoWas looking into this a few motnsh ago, but a conversion kit for an ICE car was around 10–20k + labor (or tools if you’re DIYing it)… that’s pretty steep.
- toss1 3y agoSeems steep, but since good used cars are well into 5 figures, but one with a blown motor can be had for a few $k, add $10-20k and we're still in range of a good used car or bottom-of-the-barrel new car, and below most electrics... and batteries are getting cheaper, e.g., by 10% in August alone [0] — this could be good! [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/ev-energy-storage-battery-prices-set-fall-more-report-2023-09-07/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/ev-energy-storage-battery...