Maybe part of the monopoly ruling will have chrome taken away from them.

Oh shit i thought that was a software gone wrong they couldn’t easily update.

That’s crazy.

Edit: but they are doing software to fix it, which wasn’t always working at least initially. which still isn’t stopping all thefts. Thefts are still elevated with the update, but less than without.

Edit: this might be why

The institute’s report said theft claims may still be elevated for car models with the new software because the software-based immobilizer activates only if the key fob is used to lock the vehicle; if the driver uses the switch on the door handle, the anti-theft software is ineffective.

I’m using plex but still hosting it on my desktop which is a little inconvenient at times. I really should set up an always available NAS

Ugh, you’re right. Enshittify to the max!

People do like Hyundai’s EVs and I would definitely check them out when you’re looking, but don’t kid yourself that Hyundai also doesn’t have it’s own issues.

For example people have been stealing Hyundai/Kia for years now due to faulty security software that makes it trivial. It was even a TikTok challenge.

Maybe over an extended period of time, but that’s not something people get fired for right away. Also bugs are a fact of life in software, and while some developers may ship more bugs than others, work still needs to get done, and it’s often better to try and train and improve an existing employee than fire them too soon.

What’s a good EV?

They all have recalls. Very few vehicles have few recalls. Especially early year models.

The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

So regular TV is designed around the ads.

Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.

That partially went away with the no ad streaming.

Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven’t watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.

This is the same problem all the legacy OEM’s are having. The car isn’t a cohesive system, so it’s very hard to update the car the way Tesla does.

They are getting better at it, and are able to do more things OTA, but I’m not sure anyone is actually at the level Tesla is yet. If I had to guess, I’d think RIvian might be, but I don’t actually know. VW is going to Rivian for software help.

always the managers even with software

You know, I want this to be 100% true, but it’s not.

I’ve been in software development for over a decade and while the managers are definitely high up there on the list of causing problems, I’ve also worked with enough shitty developers that don’t care enough. Then not everyone provides the same level of code review, some people are pretty bad at it and just rubber stamp things, and then a problem gets through.

Well, the ID4 has had 18 since 2021.

Tesla started doing Cybertrucks in late 2023 though, so in that same time frame it’s 4 for ID4, and 8 for all of 2023/2024 (Edit: and the initial start of ID4 in 2021 had 4, and then 6 in 2022)

https://www.cars.com/research/volkswagen-id.4/recalls/?page=1

The EV9 has had 4, all in 2024.

https://www.cars.com/research/kia-ev9/recalls/

The site doesn’t have BYD, and while the site has jeep, I can’t seem to find the specific PHEV variant as nothing shows in 2024,but the Cherokee has 4 in 2023

As a second note to my main post - I was tracking these since the VW recall because I read awhile ago that recalls happen in clusters, and someone did a paper on it once (and i actually found the paper back then to confirm). When a company is working through a recall and knows there might be an issue, they’ll often hold onto it for awhile if they can (there’s probably some statutory limit) and wait for someone else to announce a recall. The person who announces the first recall in a cluster will often get more headlines/news and a greater impact on their stock.

I thought that was interesting when I read it last time and started keeping track on my VW post on the electric vehicles community when I saw the VW one which was the first I’d seen for EVs in awhile and wanted to see how many we’d get clustered together. It’s still going with this new CyberTruck one, but I’m not 100% sure that VW was the first.

Okay… so I knew this would be posted here when I saw it, and I knew there’d be a circlejerk of people dumping on Tesla/Elon because oh no a recall! One that can even be fixed with software.

How many of these other recalls did you see in the past few weeks though since Sept 18th? How many of these landed on the technology sub at that? These are all also EVs (with 1 PHEV)

VW (100k) - https://electrek.co/2024/09/18/volkswagen-halt-us-id-4-production-100k-vehicle-recall/

-Door handles leaking causing electrical problem, stop production until 2025

KIA (12.4k)- https://electrek.co/2024/09/24/kia-recall-12400-ev9-suvs-faulty-remote-parking-assist/

-Remote parking systems might not stop the car.

Jeep [PHEV] (194k) - https://apnews.com/article/jeep-recall-park-outdoors-fire-risk-d201d4a90b271da96724f77ec034e459

-Battery Fire Risk - STOP CHARGE AND PARK OUTSIDE.

BYD (96.7k) - https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/29/byd-recalls-evs-fire-risk/

-Fire Risk - Bad capacitor on PCB (not a battery specific issue)

Sounds like a good movie story line where aliens invade and we need older ordinances to fight them off and we have to go to this bomber to get them and win the fight

That 10% number is wildly wrong.

That’s the low end of the estimated range which is actually 10% to 20% and the estimated ranges are all about known miscarriages. The rate also increases with age, it’s not some static number a person should expect.

Countless other pregnancies end in miscarriage before women even know they’re pregnant.

And in the dystopian future were headed for, they’ll be monitoring even for those unknown ones and jail em for murder.

ICrease

There’s usually defined periods for sales as well. Gives employees and other stock holders a way to cash out and get new investors in.

Oh wow I didn’t actually know he was bipolar (checked to confirm it is the case). I knew he was on the autism spectrum.

I can’t imagine those 2 play nice together.

Do you actually blow up test bridges or do you just practice placing the explosives?