| ▲ | jeroenhd 5 days ago |
| If you bought a BMW in the 80s and you were suddenly at war with Germany, you'd be stuck scavenging for replacement parts the moment something in the engine failed. It's not as easy and direct, but the problem is still there. Doing business with the enemy always comes with a risk. For countries that don't build their own networking equipment (including the PCBs and chips), you have to accept some level of risk or you have to avoid such technology all together. |
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| ▲ | kilpikaarna 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Doing business with the enemy always comes with a risk. Or indeed with allies, as Europe is just finding out... |
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| ▲ | jeroenhd 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Indeed, though we are also finding out how bad it is to not have any local competition in many fields of hardware, software, and manufacturing. Heavily sanctioned countries like Afghanistan and Iran have one thing going for them, and that's that they can't easily build a dependence on foreign technology (though not having such technology at all is arguably just as bad). |
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| ▲ | exitb 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The average time before a car NEEDS a replacement part to run must be at least a few years. That's a different situation from flipping a switch to turn all connected cars off. |
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| ▲ | jeroenhd 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | But on average, all cars are a few years old, and wars aren't over in a few months. | | |
| ▲ | steveBK123 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Mechanical parts can be reverse engineered after you run out of inventory and the ability to gray-source them via 3rd parties/countries. Also that is an "eventual problem". The era of smart everything exposes you to pinpoint time/place/person disablement by the enemy. | | |
| ▲ | catigula 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Who's "the enemy"? I surrender. The philosophy and structure we rest on is much more precarious than our technologies. | | |
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| ▲ | dasKrokodil 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not for a BMW though. | | |
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| ▲ | traderj0e 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Italian cars give you this experience without there even being a war |
