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Comment Re: all crap (Score 1) 30

Amazingly, technology advances over time. If your 2015 Volvo is a XC90, the sound you think is a hard drive is a cooling fan. If not, blame Ford for the late 2000s infotainment crap.
The Sensus system launched in 2015 doubled in speed in 2018, and when it was replaced with Android, it got a quad core 64-bit Intel system to run on. Performance hasnâ(TM)t been an issue for a long time.

Comment Re:So Jet Fuel? (Score 1) 69

Maybe they can fool investors, but not anyone who has ever had to build something in a highly regulated industry. There is no way they are going to take a type-certified passenger aircraft and retrofit their completely novel propulsion system into it and expect to carry passengers anytime soon. Trying to re-engineer the aircraft is crazy. It would probably be a better idea to just design a new aircraft for their propulsion system.

Comment Re: A good strategy (Score 1) 175

Your BMW also has multiple networks of AUTOSAR ECUs. Many manufacturers use this architecture. Where things blow up for 1337h4x0r5 is the CAN signals. In AUTOSAR, every ECU on a network contains a copy of the signal database. If any ECU is replaced, it must have the same version of the SDB loaded onto it or the ECU will be a babbling idiot on the network. This will cause many ECUs to start throwing DTCs and break all kinds of functionality.

Comment Re: Uh too late (Score 1) 100

I am tired of the revisionist bullshit here. Apple is on the USB-IF committee, they were key in defining USB-C. Lightning only exists because of industry infighting that dragged out implementation. Look at what a mess USB-C charging cables have been. Apple wanted a small connector and multifunction capability, thus Lightning was born. Itâ(TM)s so much more than USB: the pin out is software defined based on negotiation between the cable and device, with the Lightning multiplexer routing the desired signals to the appropriate lines. This means you can route analog audio, RS232, USB, and power (even high voltage charging) in (mostly) whatever configuration you want all through a single connector.
Lightning did what Apple needed it to do. They had no desire to make it a standard because their entire goal was USB-C all along.
This is right alongside revisionists moaning about Apple rolling out Thunderbolt, despite the fact it was an Intel driven standard and PC manufacturers were too busy eating glue to implement it in a sane way.

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