If it's all software, that means that you can jailbreak it, just like a phone.
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
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The racing world will have this cracked overnight.
And this is why i'll never own a vehicle with a cellular modem unless a jailbreak is already developed and there's no regulatory/insurance issue with doing so.
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The intent is to provide ~~players~~ owners with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different ~~heroes~~ horsepower.
They came for the Gamers, but I did not speak out because I was not a Gamer.
Hey, we did speak out and most of us didn't shut up since. Fuck EA, VW, BMW, whoever tries to push microtransactions.
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Okay, it's high time for some serious regulatory intervention.
The future is a fucking farce.
Psych! You thought you were gonna get star trek style utopia, while we've been descending into fascist dystopia for several decades!?!
Our Startrek future is the Ferengi Empire.
Turns we’ve been in the mirror universe all along.
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They've had this before, but you've had to change chips. Was also hacked. Except that it was a one-off payment now upgraded to subscription.
Yeah, we've got more choice now.
I'm glad I used my freedom of choice to buy a different make.
At this point, companies will do literally fucking anything, just to pad the numbers for the shareholder reports. The Volkswagen group can screw itself. When we start decent seeing vehicles at a decent price again, maybe we can resume this conversation. Everyone’s tired of plastic garbage for top dollar
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This is so distopian it sounds like a joke
The manufacturers fee for speeding is higher than the fine the police gives you.
German car industry has one foot in the grave. The German car industry lobbyist have successfully weakened or delayed many EU climate and sustainability initiatives. I fucking hope the German car industry collapses sooner than later and weaken Germany’s political power in the EU.
German car industry has one foot in the grave.
I wonder if that is true though. Sure, they lobby that way when they want government subsidies.
They might be late to the e-car game (but the above article applies to e-cars only anyhow).
But all that largely applies to most car industries across the globe, yet they do adapt, if slowly. Except those under totalitarian control, they adapt faster.
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WTF ?
How does this even work? It’s like they don’t realise they don’t own the car once it’s been sold. What’s to stop someone just hacking it and unlocking it?
If you hack it warranty becomes void and you're maybe in big insurance trouble if there's an accident or your battery catches fire in an underground parking garage. Basically similar to how banking apps etc keep people from trying to use alternatives to Android on their phone. The boundary isn't technical, it's legal.
It's all proprietary code. But in theory you could unlock the full potential if not more. If you can recreate their software. Ideally then also open source it please.
What’s to stop someone just hacking it and unlocking it?
I assume that they try to make that fairly difficult.
I mean, modern cars are Internet-connected, have cell radios. If the vendor can maintain access to the car and can provide the initial trusted hardware, they can make it pretty unpleasant to modify the thing.
You also don't need a 100% solution to make it financially work. Just need to make the level of inconvenience high enough that the bulk of people won't do it.
modern cars are Internet-connected
This in itself is terrifying. It isn't like they are going to provide security updates for your car for decades. Unplug that modem, no reason for your car to be exposed to the internet.
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This is grotesque. "More choice" is utter bollocks, they're insulting our intelligence with this, or maybe they're mocking us.
How about just let us get as much power as we can out of the car by pushing our foot down harder on the pedal.
This is a perfect example of "remove something, then sell it back to the customer".
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And the choice given is if you want your car deliberately crippled, or you want to cough up money.