IMHO, the changes you’re describing might happen in the short term but the siren song of saving $$$ will be too strong to ignore long term. 5 years down the road: “Can’t we save 3% getting this from China?”  “Yes, but we’re paying a little extra to reduce risk of a supply chain disruption.” “The pandemic was FIVE…

Just a quick reminder: Taiwan, not China, is the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer

And one of the massive production problems was a drought made it difficult to clean their manufacturing facilities

100%.

This goes way beyond shipping costs. This whole thing has opened up the eyes of companies to the consequences of adopting lean without mitigating against the bullwhip effect. This is what I’m always on about utilization rates. High utilization = high efficiency, but also extremely low disruption tolerance. Your…

I always thought that we could get screwed like this, but I thought it would be some sort of war that caused it.

Motorola made that plant before they were sold to China. As soon as Google sold Motorola, that plants days were numbered. Like when Whirlpool sold Hoover to China, you knew that the days of Hoover being made in America was over. They closed that plant as fast as possible, and moved production to China.

The main problem is the low level parts. The parts that are used to make the parts they get from China. The US fucked themselves by allowing everything to go offshore in the name of the almighty dollar. China could literally strangle us to death if they wanted. Thankfully as their largest consumer that will most…

I get the not being searched... although they should. But towing companies do not go picking up cars at will . Police or parking enforcement needs to fill paperwork first. No license plate... use the VIN to enter info. Then pick up the car.

This is the biggest question I had. How was his vehicle impounded without being searched? An entire body was in the trunk. A huge ball was dropped here.

So, why wasn’t his car properly examined by the authorities? I mean, bodies in trunk are Crime Scene 101. And if his vehicle was unknowingly impounded, why did it take so long to connect back to the victim?  Either details are missing here, or we have another case of shoddy investigative work.  

I have an email somewhere in my archives from Ford engineering stating that remote keyless entry (RKE) cannot be enabled on a vehicle that was not optioned with RKE.

this was meant as a reply somewhere else, thanks kinja!

Not too surprising. Everything is CAN-based these days, and everything has a standardized PGN (at least that’s what it’s called in the marine industry, with which I’m more familiar). It’s just reading CAN messages off the bus and updating the display accordingly. 

I love it when companies do this.

On newer vehicles they’re typically on the BCM I belive

Whataboutism is the tool of the (Russian) foreign troll.

Does this mean that the actual odometer readings are stored somewhere else on another CPU?

False equivalency. The Nazis are ALLOWED to be a part of the group. The violent idiots at a BLM rally acted on their own accord.

You have successfully whatabouted this into oblivion.

Equating nazis with BLM protestors. We got a genius here folks!