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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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