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Latest comic: Electric vehicles gone wrong
I'm fine with the soft, whirring spaceship sounds that some EVs emit as a safety feature to alert people that they're moving. The new Dodge Charger EV comes with a deafening 126 dB roar, which is just plain obnoxious.
Some fascinating research out on hacking a Subaru via STARLINK connected vehicle service.
"On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service that gave us unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
Using the access provided by the vulnerability, an attacker who only knew the victim’s last name and ZIP code, email address, phone number, or license plate could have done the following:
Remotely start, stop, lock, unlock, and retrieve the current location of any vehicle.
Retrieve any vehicle’s complete location history from the past year, accurate to within 5 meters and updated each time the engine starts.
Query and retrieve the personally identifiable information (PII) of any customer, including emergency contacts, authorized users, physical address, billing information (e.g., last 4 digits of credit card, excluding full card number), and vehicle PIN.
Access miscellaneous user data including support call history, previous owners, odometer reading, sales history, and more.
After reporting the vulnerability, the affected system was patched within 24 hours and never exploited maliciously."
Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition
So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.
It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.
You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.
But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:
"The network is reliable".
A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻♀️
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving has been linked to hundreds of crashes and dozens of deaths, according to a federal investigation published today.
“In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023,” reports @theverge. “Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which ‘the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.’ These crashes, which were often the most severe, resulted in 14 deaths and 49 injuries.”
In Vox, I explained how federal policy encourages car bloat, making American vehicles more enormous, polluting, and dangerous than they'd otherwise be.
That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.
Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk
Here’s an idea for better cities: Make owners of big SUVs & pickups pay more to park.
That's what Montreal now does -- and it's the first North American city to try it.
In Bloomberg CityLab, I explored a groundbreaking way to fight back against car bloat.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60760563/porsche-911-hybrid-debut-announced/
New hybrid Porsche 911 is coming
Teslas are surveillance on wheels. Bay Area police increasingly check to see if there was a Tesla in the vicinity of a crime so they can get access to the footage from its cameras.
If you see a Tesla, it’s probably filming you — and more automakers are doing it too.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/tesla-sentry-mode-police-evidence-19731000.php
In The Verge, I explained why self-driving cars could be a disaster for climate change and road safety -- even if they work perfectly.
The answer lies in the Jevons paradox, a classic 19th century economic theory.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise
🚔🔎 Founder of Search Engine Optimization (#SEO) 1999 #SPILLS_THE_BEANS!
#PROGRAMMATIC is REAL.
AI in this USE CASE (FANTASY) is #FAKE 100% 💩 #BULLSHIT
There are ONLY 2 purposes for the #OPENAI #debauchery?
1. #IP_THEFT (Feeding the Beast) and
2. #Copyright_Infringement being used to ( #CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE) see below.
..by asking it questions you are disclosing ( #FEEDING IT) all your #trade_secrets, #your_ideas, your #inventions.. NOW sitting on some server SOMEWHERE BEING SIFTED, FILTERED FOR #IP_THEFT (IP THEFT) or COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT in order to OBSCURE YOUTUBE SEARCH RESULTS to manipulate and once again #CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE.
Artificial intelligence CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT A conscious.
THE HYPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN because of #PROGRAMMATIC NOT 💩 #BULLSHIT AI.
THEY #UGLY TRUTH! FOLKS!! YOU are #CONFUSING #ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE WITH PROGRAMMATIC
As many of you know I have been saying 🧠ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is a BIG FAT LIE since 1999.
Basically #THEY are calling #Software_Development incorrectly as ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ALSO KNOWN AS #PROGRAMMATIC.
Which has been here B4 1999. And these AMERICAN #TREASONISTS #TRAITORS would have you believe THEY JUST INVENTED IT YESTURDAY? rotflmao.
AND The Evolution of SPAMMING AND WHY #YOUTUBE IS OVER ROVER.
Remember we started with #TEXT_SPAMMING and now its MOVED into #VIDEO_SPAMMING (KEYWORDS) with obscured content.
The Great fall is coming for CENTRALIZED SYSTEMS and THEY cannot see it;) But we can! We have been here since 1999 24/7.
Do you remember #Trump and #Oprah Buying up most of the BIG ISLAND LAND with 🦨 skunk head at the ☸️ helm?
Then they corralled all #Hawaiians and #burned them #alive in their #cars to get the locals out of their homes in order for the #elite to #LAND_GRAB them BY #FORCE w/ #FIRE??🔥
The same is happening with CENTRALIZED SEARCH ENGINES, YOUTUBE IS SIMPLY A 🔎 CENTRALIZED SEARCH ENGINE NOTHING MORE!
CENTRALIZED SOCIAL AND NOW CENTRALIZED 📽️ VIDEO SHARING PLATFORM CALLED YOUTUBE.
You all have been corralled into CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS AND SOON YOUR CHANNELS WILL BE DE_MONETIZED.. CARS CORRALLED AND BURNED UP>> like Hawaii? 🔥
If you do not drink the koolaide funded by dirt bag elites.. THEN WHAT?
Here is what happened. Back in the day before you all got #ADDICTED 💉 to centralized platforms; Marketers would build many (TEXT NOT VIDEO) websites to get them listed in the major search engines. However, what you don’t know is that back in 2007 all major search engines turned themselves into #dedicated pay per click ( #PPC) ENGINES exclusively for fortune 500 companies EXCLUDING ALL COMPETING MARKETERS. And why everyone migrated to #MONEY_LAUNDERING #Youtube. Money being laundered through GOOGLE #AD_SENSE TO PAY COMPLICIT THIEVES BY THE 🇮🇱 JEWS.
ALL CENTRALIZED #BIG_TECH IS 🇮🇱 JEWISH OWNED BTW!?
Now with the advent of #BULLSHIT_AI you are using Chat Alphabet Soup and asking it questions RIGHT?.
There are 2 purposes for the #debauchery? 1. #IP_THEFT (Feeding the Beast) and 2. #Copyright_Infringement being used to (CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE) see below.
..by asking it questions you are disclosing ( #FEEDING IT) all your #trade_secrets, #your_ideas, your #inventions.. NOW sitting on some server SOMEWHERE BEING SIFTED, FILTERED FOR #IP_THEFT (IP THEFT) or COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT in order to OBSCURE YOUTUBE SEARCH RESULTS to manipulate and once again #CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE.
At the same time CREATING #ARTIFICIAL_CONTENT NOT #ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE (#AI cannot exist WITHOUT a conscious) BUT Obscuring ALL YOUTUBE SEARCHES in the bogus name of Artificial Intelligence!
In other words search engine technology was intended to filter through billions of video to find the MOST RELEVANT video result. THE OPPOSITE IS NOW HAPPENING.
Do a search on any keyword or keyword phrase and you will #not see #relevancy to the #search_query. Something 'Related to' at best = OBSCURITY not #ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE but #ARTIFICIAL_CONTENT!
In other words back in the day search could find exactly what you are looking for however #now_obscured with #ARTIFICIAL_CONTENT NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OBSCURING ALL YOUTUBE SEARCHES.
For example recently I have listened to Billy Graham sermon to find even his voice and sermon content has been changed or manipulated in some way? = ARTIFICAIL CONTENT in order to #CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE.
Folks search engine tech at one time was RELEVANT. NOW SEARCH RESULTS ARE ALL IRRELEVANT information. Obscured..
Not only are you being dumbed down from these centralized systems but your also being 100% LIED TO with BOGUS INFORMATION.
IT GET WORSE .. Not only have they obscured search results with #ARTIFICIAL_CONTENT NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; they are also Manipulating (mixing) REAL CONTENT with ARTIFICIAL CONTENT to #CONTROL_THE_NARRATIVE.
But here is what will happen. I remember my 4 kids DUMPED MYSPACE for Facebook Overnight. Many soon will do the same with YOUTUBE, TIKTOK etc. Chat alphabet soup versions as well. All major centralized search engines OVER ROVER SINCE 2007.
If you are not preparing for the BIG CRASH of Centralized systems now you will lose all your hard VIDEO work. We know what it talke to make just one productive Video. Not easy.
I mean many of you have 1000's of videos that you are only receive PIE CRUMB Payouts for?? The ARTIFICIAL CONTENT now being creating programmatically OBSCURING SEARCH will also #BUMP your VIDEOS to he bottom of the query.
AKA THE #DEATH OF YOUR #CHANNEL IS IN THE #HANDS OF CENTRALIZED ELITE THIEVES.
If you are not driving traffic to your own sites now you will be left behind. Millions of creators have now #left_centralized_organizations for #DECENTRALIZED ORGANIZATIONs such as #FEDIVERSE which is a SILO DREAM;)
50k Unique VISITORS per day after 1 year;) 1 site;) @ >$.50 min per visitor. you do the math;)
📢 #MARKETERS! the FUTURE is #Decentralized Networks or TAKE A #KNEE_ON_NECK? ;)
Your Choice..
Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars after just 15 days — one of the shortest windows in the country.
The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.
In my blog
#Autocade World: the site of the book of the site
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/autocade-world-the-site-of-the-book-of-the-site/ #AutocadeWorld #cars #publishing
What was #UAW thinking backing this plan?
#Trump’s 25% #tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the #AutoIndustry, prompting companies to stop shipping #cars to the #US, shut down factories in #Canada & #Mexico & lay off workers in #Michigan & other states.
#Trump #economy #inflation #recession #layoffs #trumpcession
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-cars-auto-industry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=3CE332E7-38CB-491F-BBE5-4C54F080388D
Connecticut Towing Companies Use Belongings Left in Cars as Leverage to Collect Fees, Drivers Say
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The Connecticut DMV allows owners to get back into towed cars to retrieve items that are essential to their health and welfare. But people have lost work equipment, car seats, important documents and priceless mementos.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-dmv-lost-belongings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
In the rural suburbs of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup is trying to kick-start the nation’s electric vehicle market with the smallest, cheapest car it can possibly make. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/19/japan-mini-ev-hit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #kgmotors #cars #electricvehicles #hiroshima
Here’s a running list of all of Tesla’s robotaxi mishaps so far
a list of all the mistakes the company’s “unsupervised” vehicles have made in the first couple days.
these are the incidents that cropped up among a small fleet of 10-20 vehicles in just three days of semi-public availability.
#NHTSA #tesla #robotaxi #safety #autonomousvehicles #autonomous #selfdriving #automotive #auto #cars #austintx #austin #texas
https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-wrong-lane-phantom-braking
