Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by liontwist on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:20AM (#42246997)

I can’t understand why a regulatory group would feel the need to make that a requirement. That vastly increases the cost to develop a vehicle.

Why can’t I choose that feature as a consumer? Did their brother in law have the patent for backing cameras?

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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by Tostino on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:36AM (#42247151)

I get it, but the reasoning behind it was that little kids kept getting run over by their parents / family members because they couldn't see them.

The cost at this point is pretty negligible.

Mandate went into effect (in the US) in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera#Mandates

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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by liontwist on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:01PM (#42247435)

Thanks for the info.

Yeah the cost is negligible if you are already planning to have a screen running chrome on Ubuntu server, but I hope it was still an option not to have that.

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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by mrguyorama on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:51PM (#42247990)

Uh no. Pretty much every single backup camera on every single vehicle is the exact same little module that produces analog video and literally just runs a component cable to the head unit which has a standardized analog video input.

Zero software required.

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Re:Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent o... by liontwist on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:10PM (#42249519)

If that’s true I feel much more at peace.

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