Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months agoYou speak as if there’s never been any recalls of cars in the past, before they had electronic and computer systems in them.
My Ford Explorer trunk door almost fell on my head and killed me. It’s tires shredded while driving on the freeway at high speeds, almost killing me and my family, twice. Neither of those had electronics or computer parts.
I don’t think you’ll have any car manufactured anymore that’s not complex, it’s just part of what happens over time, new technology is taken advantage of in the manufacturing of products.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m not sure I follow your point here. Even necessary parts of a car failed for you, and almost caused injury. Now people are advocating adding unnecessary parts to cars that may also fail and cause injuries or death.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would have thought this was straightforward enough…
Your whole comment that I replied to was about faults in advanced/electronic systems as the only reasons that make cars unsafe to drive.
“Unnecessary” is in the eye of the beholder.
They were very few parts needed to actually make an automobile go into motion and be steerable, but there’s many additional bells and whistles that people considered necessary for them when they purchase a vehicle.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The reason I didn’t understand your comment is that your examples just proved my point - safety critical items WERE NOT VETTED correctly. What makes you think the auto manufacturers are being careful with software? They aren’t, or are doing the bare minimum. I listed multiple software issues with various manufacturer that never should have happened.
Look, I’m not a luddite. I like having nav and satellite radio and all of that. But adding a game to the already questionable software development in a car is insane. Cars are a safety critical item and everything added to them should be carefully considered and thoroughly vetted.
Someone compared it to a cell phone, but cell phones aren’t 3,000 lbs of heavy machinery barreling down a highway at 70 mph. A phone needing to reset or whatever is a minor inconvenience compared to what could go wrong with a serious software bug in a car. I’m not sure why people would argue against this, it seems self-evident. I provided examples.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Insane? That’s the word you’re going to use, really? Seems overly extreme.
I wouldn’t disagree with that paragraph in general, but, it doesn’t mean not used.
It’s just a computer. Asking for cars never to use computers going forward in the future is a non-starter, that’s not how Humanity works.
Would your concerns go away if somebody was doing the exact same things I’ve mentioned with a laptop, instead of using the computer built into the vehicle?
(And in case it has to be explicitly said, I’m speaking towards while the car is not being driven.)
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What, you’re expecting the car to explode if somebody plays a Netflix movie or video game while waiting for someone to come out of the store?
And again, if I wanted to, I can make the same argument you just did (carefulness) about the hydraulics that hold the rear hatch door up, or the tires that were on my SUV.