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This is a different discussion. There doesn't seem to have been any abuse of a loved one before the perps drove off in the cars. The cars weren't sold as "unste
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
This is a different discussion. There doesn't seem to have been any abuse of a loved one before the perps drove off in the cars. The cars weren't sold as "unstealable".
The whole point is that what was sold (some kind of key security) was half-assedly implemented.
- sidewndr46 3y agoYou can extrapolate this argument to almost anything about a vehicle in North America. I've been working on them for decades. The way manufacturers make money is by half-assing things. Where a chain should be used, a belt is used. Where a 10 cent switch should be used, a touchscreen replaces it. Where a shifter should be, some knob is used to replace which actually kills a guy because he didn't realize his SUV was in gear. I had to replace part of the engine on my personal truck recently because it was made of plastic and obviously failed. The replacement parts were metal because all I did was order the previous generations part number which works perfectly fine but costs more. What you call "half assed" is what everyone in the industry calls a profit margin.
- riskable 3y agoYou are so wrong it's unreal! Quality switches suitable for use in a vehicle don't cost $0.10, they cost $0.01! -at the volumes they'd be purchased for auto manufacturing.
- HPsquared 3y agoYou don't need just the switch. It needs a housing, a cap, lighting, wiring, and connectors at the other end of the wire too. And all this needs to be designed in a "waterfall" style, with long lead times. Overall, a virtual button is going to be cheaper to engineer and manufacture than a hardware button. It's not big, overall, but these small savings accumulate over the whole vehicle.