• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I really REALLY hope someone at some point starts a gasoline to electric car conversion company at some point.

    I love my car because it has just the right amount of technology: Bluetooth connectivity for calls and music. That’s it. That’s all I need.

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      9 months ago

      To ensure that the update process finishes without interruption due to weak battery - if that happens it can brick your car. Tbf you can also just connect the battery to a power source and keep the engine off. Depending on update and car updates that take a few hours are not unheard of

      • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        This is such extremely poor engineering that it throws me into a rage. There is nothing to prevent them from installing the update in the background progressively while driving and then just switching to the new version in one swift atomic operation (like changing the name of a directory) when it’s ready

        • Aux@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          That’s additional work. Easier to tell people to run the engines.