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> Companies not respecting consumer rights isn't an inherent property of having an electric drivetrain. But it is so much easier. How car will tell that mechan
by MrHamburger 2y ago
> Companies not respecting consumer rights isn't an inherent property of having an electric drivetrain.
But it is so much easier. How car will tell that mechanical part has been changed? It can't.
- kristopolous 2y agoOk name an EV part you can be a DRM asshole with and tell me the mechanism by which you're enforcing the DRM and I'll bet it's equally enforceable with a similar mechanism on the gas vehicle.
- MrHamburger 2y agoBattery pack being DRM locked, while gas tank can't be.
- ssl-3 2y agoGas tank can be behind DRM, just as a battery can be. They're both naturally rather simple affairs: In their most primitive forms, a fuel tank is just a container that holds fuel, and a battery is just a collection of cells. But nothing at all prevents either thing from being rather more complex than that with the inclusion of necessary electronics that are DRM-locked.
- oliwarner 2y agoSorry but no, it can. ICE vehicles have hundreds of CAN bus or SPE -networked devices that feed into an MCU that can refuse to work if they're not first-party devices. This isn't something novel to EV, at all.
- MrHamburger 2y agoChanging a head gasket will be detected by what exactly? Rebuilding your failed transmission (the wheels inside) will be detected by which sensor?
- oliwarner 2y agoI didn't say there weren't also parts that aren't on a communication network, in both types of car. This is a silly line of argument. It's no easier, or harder: There are components in both systems that rely on network communication which could easily be vendor-locked by a central computer.