Modchips are an incredibly niche product, millions and millions of people will seek out how to break the law to get free heated seats if subscription services become widespread
They will encrypt the heaters’ connection to the car. Breaking encryption is a dcma violation. Aftermarket can replace the entire seat but that’s very expensive.
trafficnab@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Modchips went under the radar for years. It wasn’t until they became popular (modchips company making millions in profit) that the developers were sued.
Like car mods right now, as long as it’s a few, it isn’t worth the hassle because there is no money to take from them. If it becomes big and Cartoys starts selling lots of mod chips that break encryption, they will be sued and possibly jailed.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Heated seats use a heating element which just needs power and ground. They can’t encrypt that.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which would be really easy. Who cares about the UI?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If it was easy and cheap, everyone would be doing it for all their controls instead of complaining about Tesla’s touch screen.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And I bet I could wire the heated seats to work without even needing to take a Tesla to car toys. Heated seat circuits aren’t that complicated. It’s a heating element mat, maybe a motor and fan if you have cooled seats as well. You don’t need software. You need a toggle switch and a thermistor.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You could bypass and put your own hardwired switch in. But it wouldn’t be integrated into the car’s gui.
“to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.”
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201#
Modchips makers were sued and jailed. Interoperability didn’t apply because they violated the “no commercial use” part of the title.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I never claimed it would be. Car toys will absolutely do what they have always done to get around car makers and provide customers with the modifications they want. That is not even a question.