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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1321 points kwindla | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.292s | source
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swagasaurus-rex ◴[25 Apr 25 15:14 UTC] No.43794426[source]▶
Very exciting! Electric vehicles have the ability to be very simple, much simpler than an ICE.

Although electric can't be 100% analog, I miss the old days when a car has no software updates, no telemetry, no privacy issues, no mandatory subscription for features.

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the__alchemist ◴[25 Apr 25 15:23 UTC] No.43794543[source]▶
Don't want or need analog: Just don't enshittify the digital! CAN bus is a great system; don't IoT it or use dark patterns.
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AlotOfReading ◴[25 Apr 25 17:31 UTC] No.43796368[source]▶
God no, CAN is horrible and the horrors people working around its limitations have brought into the world are even worse.
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1. constantcrying ◴[26 Apr 25 08:19 UTC] No.43801823[source]▶
CAN is really great for what it is. It is one of the simplest ways to get N devices to talk to each other. Really simple and easily debuggable.

Obviously it is too limiting for modern cars so it will get mostly dropped. It clearly is a great protocol though.