There are a couple of other issues with smaller process chips that could make them unsuitable for automotive environments.

I’m not going to pretend that I know all that much about high voltage batteries; but in cases where a fault could lead to a fire, then you probably need earlier detection on that fault.

This is really less a story about being able to get a bricked EV into neutral; and more a story about EVs, or any car for that matter, having a limp-home mode.

5th gear is misleading. A very quick search turned up CVE-2021-22156, which details that the vulnerability exists in QNX SDP 6.5.0SP1 and earlier, QNX OS for Safety version 1.0.1 and earlier, and QNX OS for Medical version 1.1 and earlier.

From the article: “Dealers are not expected to have to floorplan the vehicles before they’re finished, one person said.” To floorplan the vehicle at a dealership means the dealership carries it as inventory.

There already exists a set of standards for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. The SAE J2945 standard set defines the protocol and implementation standards around DSRC, Dedicated Short Range Communication. It’s built on top of IEEE 802.11p as the carrier, using a dedicated slice of…

It’s about to set sail, it could seat 20. It has to be the 24' Chrysler Marine Cruiseliner III:

You’d be surprised, I think. Sure, ‘Plaid’ is a cute reference to a middling-funny 34 year old movie; but you want customers to make a $130,000 purchase, they’re going to start to wonder about the care and attention that was put into the details when the trim name is this goofy, stale joke.

These are cutesy references, but I wonder how many purchasers they alienate with these outdated references to marginally funny movies that are pretty much played out as touchpoints. I’ve thought the same thing with their naming strategy. The Model 3 was originally going to be the Model E before Ford asserted a…

Read the introductory paragraph, insta-no dice; like every other car whose value is tied up in extremely low mileage.

(Source: https://erdavis.com/2020/01/04/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio/)

None of them.

I was specifically pointing out that the claim of no, or little, US chip fabrication because it’s too expensive is a bit off. There’s lots of manufacturing capacity in the US, and manufacturers aren’t really leaving the country.

But that’s not exactly true. NXP, Samsung, and Infineon all have high volume fabs in Texas; and have yet to show signs of moving their production. Which, of course, is one of the problems in the semiconductor supply chain - all those plants are just now recovering from the Texas blackout.

Kinja munched the links. Let’s try again:

The semiconductor shortage is so poorly reported here.

Yes. Tesla should be looking at reasonably foreseeable misuse; and building in functional safety safeguards into their level 2 driver assist feature.

The driver was flung into the back seat by the force of the collision?

A thing about Tesla, that the company’s proponents don’t acknowledge - there are a lot of fundamental design flaws in their vehicles. Fundamental defects that exist out of carelessness, or hubris, or simply not knowing. The “Move fast and break things” mantra of Silicon Valley did move the market for full EVs; at the…