In what world does walking 2-300m take 20min? What a ridiculous hyperbole…

I start the AC from my office which is probably 2-300m from my car with a large building between. That’s far outside the range of a key FOB, but it’s nice and cold in the summer (or warm on the winter) when I get to it.

This is probably rather US specific, 2G is used for emergency services many places in Europe so it’s not easily disposed of.

2G is still operational pretty much everywhere. It’s still the lowest level fallback for telecommunications.

Yeah, that kind of goes without saying…

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Are you not paying the manufacturer for the cellular service to run the climate control?

No, I’m not.

I obviously would prefer open protocols and/or APIs for these things, but it should be possible without modding the car with additional hardware.

Honestly I disagree. That kind of features should absolutely be included and standard. I shouldn’t have to buy 3rd party hardware to modify my car and pay for extra cellular service for it.

IDK, the ability to remote activate climate control, start/stop charging and control charge power to match my solar power are all quite good reasons for me to have my car connected.

We should be able to have nice things without surveillance. We shouldn’t refrain from these things, we should legislate so they’re not allowed to collect data and share it without explicit consent.

To be fair, 3G cellular is technology that is more than 20 years old now, superseded by 4G which is almost 15 years old. It’s not like there haven’t been viable replacements for 3G for more than a decade before it was retired.

They absolutely don’t need to detect the country of their users. Simple popup asking, if you’re in an EU country, and then adapt according to the users answer.

Most races are not against time though… They’re against other competitors. The time it takes you is pretty irrelevant, as long as the others are slower.

It’s more or less only time trials that are races against time.

Funny thing, most modern refrigerators use DC motors for their compressors so that they can run at variable speeds

No they don’t…they use AC motors and a VFD to control the speed.

They’re starting to put LTE modems in all cars

Because a lot of the market also wants to be able to monitor and control certain aspects of their car remotely, and this is only possible with remote internet connection. LTE is the cheapest and best way to get this. I know it’s unfortunately also used for data collection, but at least it provides some useful functionality for the user as well.

But TVs are pretty much always located near a network source, either wireless or wired. There’s not really a need to implement LTE, that they have to pay for, when they can just use the customers network for free. Since 99% will connect to the internet, the last 1% are not an interesting market share for them compared to what they would cost.

I kind of doubt LoRa is used for this application because the bitrate is super low. Transferring any meaningful amount of telemetry is not feasible.

If it’s not connected to a network(or connected to one without internet access), the data never leaves the TV though, and then the tracking doesn’t really matter.

Co-co-co-COMBO BREAKEERR!!!

It’s two completely different looks and styles, one can’t replace the other.

People replace them that often!? Damn…I have an old 1080p LED tv from Samsung that’s more than a decade old and still going strong. Blacks aren’t the best on it, but not bad enough to warrant an upgrade.

But you don’t need blockchain to solve the issue with the push for subscription business models, it actually has zero impact on whether or not companies want to use that model. I can buy a digital file (providing someone is selling it of course) without blockchain, it’s mine without blockchain, and I can use it however I want without blockchain, I can sell it without blockchain…so why would I need blockchain for this scenario? It doesn’t provide a solution to a problem.

Companies will push for subscription models because they love that recurrent revenue and lock-in of the userbase it provides. blockchain isn’t going to stop them from having this preference.

Are these facilities not regularly audited by a 3rd party to maintain their ISO certifications? The stuff mentioned in the article (key card feeler gauge…WTF!?) would/should have been caught in any routine audit.