• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    This is rage inducing.

    Imagine if your car dealer was allowed to confiscate your car on a dubious claim such as “it doesn’t meet the latest emissions standards,” but not even telling you that.

    Google needs to be fined twice the value of the apps that it stole from it’s paying customers.

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        10 months ago

        This is so stupid. Why would a company put this much effort to lock down the seat controls, as if they didn’t already exist without limits on every other car? Not even with a toggle? These companies are really trying to destroy the “cars = freedom” association.

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            10 months ago

            If the motors need to cool down, they need to rethink their motors.

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              10 months ago

              Motors get hot and it’s quite reasonable to not include tons of cooling just so that you can adjust your seat for hours on end.

              That said the implementation is still stupid as time isn’t the right measure to judge motor temperature, motor temperature is. Thermocouples cost fractions of a cent, the motors probably already include one or two as they already have smarts (being hooked up to the CAN bus and not straight voltage). Which would also take care of differing environmental temperatures as obviously the motors are worse at shedding heat when it’s scorching hot in the car.

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                10 months ago

                You don’t add cooling, you size the motors to have enough thermal mass and mount them to metal chassis.

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                  10 months ago

                  Potatoe Potatoh. Point is you size the overall system for quick adjustments, not continuous use. If you can get by with less weight and cost then you do as continuous use does not even begin to appear in the requirements sheet.

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              10 months ago

              Rethink a motor designed to be used for 5 mins initially then occasionally in future? It’s fine for the design purpose. It’s even fine for the mode where it operates every time you get in the car (where it waits in fully back position, and moves forward when you operate a control)

              Why should they think it to let it be used as a fidget toy?

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      10 months ago

      One of the most important parts of purchasing a car is the title being signed over and that transfer being registered with the state. You never own the title to an app.

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        10 months ago

        You don’t transfer title and register a hammer when you buy it. Are you saying you fan’t own one?