Re:Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru O...
by sokoloff on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:48AM
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Smart electric drives prior to 2016 used their “[not] clever backup strategy” to cyclically try to keep a failing 12V battery charged and that could result in flattening the traction battery and eventually bricking it.
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Re:Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru O...
by saltcured on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:45PM
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Ha, that does sound somewhat un-smart. Of course, when I imagined clever, it would include enough state and timer-based behaviors to recognize a bad trend and protect the traction battery too.
It should be feasible to monitor voltage levels and rates of change and signal an error condition rather than silently destroy itself...