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Apple Reportedly Teams With Kia to Produce Apple Car:
Apple is investing about $3.6 billion in a car partnership with Kia Motors, according to a report out of South Korea.
[...] Apple will set up production with Kia and build Apple cars at the company's facility in Georgia, Korean newspaper DongA Ilbo reported, though the report did not cite sources for the information, Bloomberg reported.
The newspaper also said that the two companies could sign a deal on Feb. 17 and are planning to introduce Apple cars in 2024, with an initial target to produce 100,000 vehicles a year.
Last month, South Korean automaker Hyundai, an affiliate of Kia's, announced it was in preliminary talks with Apple on developing a self-driving car, before quickly backing away from the statement and saying it has received requests from a number of technology suitors to develop autonomous electric vehicles.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday February 04 2021, @10:58PM (3 children)
How about employing a wire cutter?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Friday February 05 2021, @09:53AM (2 children)
And now your car refuses to start, and even if it does won't pass its next test.
It's literally a mandated function, part of the ECU (that's controlling your engine timing) and connected to the airbag via a safety-critical path. You're either cutting something that will be logged in the ECU and make it go mad with alerts, or you're cutting the ECU itself because its integrated and there is no "wire".
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday February 05 2021, @02:18PM (1 child)
Yes, the situation is getting worse, but in some parts of this planet a service would not only cut whatever needs to be cut, but also flush firmware.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday February 08 2021, @08:16AM
Good luck with that on any vaguely modern car. The firmware has nothing to do with it, because the logging is WORM, so can't be "deleted", only "acknowledged" to make it stop showing the light. And the date of both activation and acknowledgement are logged and can't be cleared.
Hell, many modern cars, even the most expensive garages can do no more than the basics on them and you have to take them back to the manufacturer to clear certain warnings. A friend of mine has phoned 20 garages to ask about his ABS system light and they all say they can do the work in theory but it won't clear the light until you take it back to Toyota. The equipment to do so for even a single brand costs as much as a new car, and a local garage might be dealing with 20-30 brands that all require expensive kit, agreement to their terms (i.e. if we find out you've been clearing logs you lose your licence to use the device/software), etc.
Basically, those days are gone and have been for a long time. Keep driving very old cars (which will one day be mandated out of existence, even if only through stricter testing) but one day that's no longer going to work out for you.