The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences

Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by o-__-o on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:18PM (#27097181)

All modern cars have amazing new features. Air bags, reverse cameras, steering by wire, ABS, direct fuel injection, massively boosted turbocharged engines (on econoboxes!) and traction control as standard. My 7 year old car has all of the above and can park itself, has adaptive cruise control, and for $400 I added a 12” touch screen stereo. Compared to my last car, my current car outputs up to 20psi of boost compared to the 6psi of four generations ago. My current car has part time AWD that is just as efficient as my old mechanical always on AWD car of yesterday. I bought my car for under $20k. The car is worth under $10k right now. That is massive value available to everyone right now.

Maybe you could upgrade your car now for much less than you think, or maybe you only want the latest shiny parts. Either way you need to be honest with yourself, cars have evolved and stayed modern over the past 2 decades compared to any time in automobile history

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by pja on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:36PM (#27097350)

I bought a perfectly ordinary second hand vehicle for £3k in 2003 (it had been built in 1999) which had ABS, air bags everywhere, direct fuel injection, turbo-charged engine & traction control. Modern cars are pretty amazing things: a lot of these features have been standard for twenty years at this point! (The vehicle I bought was much favoured by UK taxi drivers at the time, which shows you how very boring & practical it was.)

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by o-__-o on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:01PM (#27098112)

Since 2003 that has only gotten better. My turbocharged engine gets 35mpg on the highway while putting out 240hp on demand. 2003 cars couldn’t do that. my 2000 A4 with mods put out 250hp and had some sort of vacuum leak every other week, meanwhile that’s normal for my 2014 car and adding meth injection puts me as 300hp with zero problems after 2 years of continuous use

Remember when cars of the 90s were so much better than cars of the 80s? Going over 100k mi/km in most cars wasn’t a concern anymore. Now a large majority of cars are going 200-300k without a sweat

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by Animats on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:09PM (#27097661)

All modern cars have amazing new features.

Oh yes. Remote monitoring, tracking for advertising, contact list stealing through the USB charger port...

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by o-__-o on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:55PM (#27098057)

My cars have no such remote monitoring or tracking outside of government regulation (airbag crash sensor recording). Is this going to turn into an Apple vs Google phone style debate? Let’s stop before it gets there; Buy from a company that respects your privacy, but be prepared to spend more.

Also all of your other ten year old hardware probably has vulnerabilities you are not aware of as well

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by Animats on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:58PM (#27100222)

My cars have no such remote monitoring or tracking outside of government regulation (airbag crash sensor recording)

There was a time when people were worried about that as a privacy invasion. Even though, to access it, someone has to dig into the wreckage and retrieve the recorder. And all it yields is details of the last 30 seconds before the crash.

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by ineedasername on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:57PM (#27098084)

Maybe not always the good kind of amazing?

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by whitepoplar on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:26PM (#27097259)

Which car do you have?

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by merb on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:47PM (#27097465)

you forgot the most important thing. cas, one system (aeb) is required in european in 2022.

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