Ahhh…
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I love my primitive 2010 Honda…!
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Windoze-
“This car has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down, want details?”
Yes.
“1AS893JDYH30DKJDY60E6SJREU8”
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Reminds me of the old dial-up internet days. I’d be on the way out the door, but first want to sign on for 2-3 minutes just to check my email; instead I get caught in that software update trap … lol … in those primitive days if you didn’t let it do the entire update now, no telling how much trouble you’d be looking at, pretty good chance you’d be looking at a blank blue screen …
I had the option of waiting and it didn’t degrade the quality of my drive.
+1
I’ve gotten a couple of over-the-air software updates, and I was given the option of deferring them to non-drive times.
There is lots of YouTube commentary on the decision to block the law but you will need a shower afterward.
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On second thought, maybe this should be taken more seriously. If cars can be hacked, is this just another tool in the tool box? There have been some unresolved car crashes that proved convenient going back quite few years. Recently a fairly connected guy in Colorado was killed driving on a race track for fun. Details unclear. Going as far back as 1945, strange accidents have happened at convenient times. Just connecting dots is all. Gotta ask who benefits from a suicide hanging with a shot gun blast or a double tap to the head. Yeah, people die in crashes all the time. Nothing to see here. Just interesting timing is all.
I paid off my school loans. I paid off my wife’s school loans. I paid my sons loans and under graduate costs. I see no reason to pay for someone’s loans I don’t even know. I never took a loan out that I didn’t intend to pay off and always did.
Now on the flip side, institutions of higher learning have increased cost to equal or exceed loans available to naive students. They sell major like sociology, urban studies, dei, and others where there is little to no career benefit. So they bear some responsibility. At least the student should be counciled that this is not a major with a career like engineering, and maybe even sign a statement to that effect. You have to sign away many rights for even a simple medical procedure. $100,000 plus commitment should also carry some warnings. Even for a car loan, the banker at the end would ask if I could afford it?
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Just common sense.
That is not so common anymore. 