Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked

Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by dzhiurgis on Thursday October 10, 2024 @07:25PM (#41804591)

What does being EV have anything to do with bricking it?

Why was it bricked in first place? Cars don't brick themselves by entering tunnel or driving in wilderness.

I get it, he has to keep stirring up controversy to stay relevant, but Cory sometimes looses his marbles over irrelevant crap.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by mikestew on Thursday October 10, 2024 @07:42PM (#41804703)

I’m not even convinced that the cars won’t work without working servers. All of the links in TFA are behind a paywall I’m not going to bother working around, but is there any evidence that Fiskers need a home to phone in order to keep working? Or is it that one can’t remotely start the vehicle (as one example) without working servers?

‘Cuz $DEITY knows that “bricked” has a very wide range of colloquial definitions.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by dzhiurgis on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:45PM (#41805049)

Wonder if we should have a dedicated agency that for keeping control server up.

Allowing manufacturers to open/close your vehicles at whim sounds putting too many eggs at same basket. DMV is the one who knows who actually owns the car after all...

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by dns_snek on Friday October 11, 2024 @07:58AM (#41808715)

I expect government(s) to step in at some point and ban the practice entirely because it's such a foolish cybersecurity risk to have unnecessary single points of failure. It's basically a big red button that reads "cripple our economy, please" that our adversaries can hit at any time.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by mrgoldenbrown on Thursday October 10, 2024 @11:55PM (#41805932)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/08/fisker-bankruptcy-hits-maj...

Not all the links are behind paywalls. Fisker themselves are among the groups saying they don't know how to get the cars running again.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by hulitu on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:27AM (#41808888)

> Fisker themselves are among the groups saying they don't know how to get the cars running again.

Eh ? Like any gambling game: Insert Coin

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by squidgedcricket on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:04PM (#41805134)

EV is relevant because all of the bricked Fisker cars are EVs. Nothing stopping something similar from happening to modern ICE vehicles.

TFA doesn't say that all Fisker cars are bricked - It says that they become unusable do to minor maintenance issues that can't resolved without Fisker servers being online.

I wish I could buy an electric car with no radio transmitters and no ways to install software other than JTAG ports. I think that'll be possible in the relatively near future through EV conversions of legacy vehicles, though that route may have crash safety concerns.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by survirtual on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:40AM (#41808237)

I want a rugged EV so bad. No smart features, no phoning home, total control to the user, and designed to be beat up. I think an EV could be an absolute workhorse if built correctly.

If I ever get the funds I'm building this vehicle for sure, because it is pretty much guaranteed no one else will.

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Re:Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked – b... by idratherbike on Sunday October 13, 2024 @07:32PM (#41832694)

I am thinking of building one too. Having enough funds and know how of all the regulations is a big road block though. I want to go a step further and have an analog electric car, tired of the digital computer crap.

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