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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @02:32AM (#44929392)
At 4.5% loss per year, you'd still have 16% of cars running at 40 years. That's pretty normal.
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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by thfuran on Sunday August 17, 2025 @02:55AM (#44929492)
By that logic, shouldn’t about 25% of US persons be 150, given the annual death rate of 9.28 per thousand?
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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:00AM (#44929782)
No. Humans age in a way that cars don't, so "that logic" would not attempt to apply the same curve to humans.

If you're done nitpicking, you're welcome to explain your number better. You forgot to say how to apply "4.5%". I'm sure an exponential fit has issues, but a linear fit would be much worse, and anything fancy needs more data points.

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