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A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Not gonna happen for multiple obvious reasons, but here's one that would make you not want to buy one - it'd be a budget car for a price of a BMW.

And you're not gonna want to buy it second-hand, because of the risk of unimaginable extent of software garbage the previous owners would leave you with.

Tinker cars are for tinkering, good luck untinkering it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

    Hardware would be a different story. But I’m not sure how that’s different than today. My friend has a RAV4 that he’s added several hardware hacks to. For example, there is a module you can add that will give you actual numbers for each tire’s pressure instead of the usual warning light that a tire is low with no indication of which one. It even shows up as an extra screen on the normal interface between the gauges.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

    Exactly, right!

    As a FOSS person you don't buy a used PC from someone, find it still has an OS installed and just start using it.

    No, you wipe that sucker clean and install your OS fresh.

    An open-source car would be exactly the same.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Absolutely correct, however the thing about cars and electronics in general is that if you tinker too much, your software issues may become hardware issues - and usually much sooner than you may have anticipated.

    It's not fun when you burn your GPU, it's super not when you brick your car's AC and have to disassemble your entire dashboard

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