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Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Heated seats use a heating element which just needs power and ground. They can't encrypt that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yes you can run your own wire and glue a switch to the console. But it won't work in the car's ui. And I bet everything over 5v for USB is off a computer controlled relay. So you'd have to patch into the high voltage battery and do your own dc to dc conversion.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Which would be really easy. Who cares about the UI?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it was easy and cheap, everyone would be doing it for all their controls instead of complaining about Tesla's touch screen.

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