Search results

Yeah, one of my oldest friends works as an industrial automation engineer in the steel sector, and the new equipment replaces all the operators and full time maintenance crews. He moved into the troubleshooting and warranty division of his company, and now does all the diagnostics remotely for...

Many investors are asking similar questions right now. While the US is the 2nd largest manufacturer on Earth, and while the manufacturing sector is at basically all time highs for output: Manufacturing jobs on the other hand have been falling for many years: This is against the backdrop, that...

That' the basic privacy advice these days imo, but so uncommon; I'm on Graphene as well on any mobile device; I keep one at any given time that is for Google Services apps/testing, but as a daily driver it's great if you do use Play Store apps, you can sandbox Android Auto, FordPass, whatever...

Other countries already have quite a few trucks that do >42mpg, the Ford Ranger PHEV, Toyota Hilux Diesel Hybrid, etc. It seems like Maverick would be a good export model, but they might have to put better powertrains in it to compete against the more advanced options on market everywhere else...

They won't go anywhere, especially not for those reasons. Governments and businesses don't care about things like pollution and never have, and I'm not sure what dangers new energy cars are purported to present, but nothing meaningfully tangible, hence the global adoption curve. For pollution...

Auto companies in the US know what they're doing, and they are doing well*, given the economic environment they operate in. All new technology follows a normal distribution adoption cycle, loosely following Roger's bell curve. When we want to shift the curve, into say a long tail distribution...

Wife's car is an EV and it's been great, 2017 Chevy Bolt, it's been her favorite car by far. No service, no trips to a gas station in 8 years. They recalled the battery on them, had it swapped one afternoon a couple years ago. It's been a nice 240 mile range "regional" car, so she commutes...

Unlikely scenario, to put it mildly. most of what you'll see early on is stuff like or in the vein of AbramsX. Pure EV packages will probably exist too if they fit the mission parameters, but with modern and not outdated battery metrics, like ~5 minute charging times that China already has on...

Indeed, phones are a bigger data privacy threat than connected vehicles in many ways, but security folks treat those far differently than the general public does, too - but it's a bit far outside the scope of the vehicle vulnerability threat profile. From a data perspective, the car data may be...

Unfortunately, no one will be able to tell you where the data ends up or what is done with it or by whom, that was somewhat nationally regulated by the CFPB, those rules and data protections were junked a few days ago. It is unlikely that it will be anything but the wild west for data brokers...

New energy vehicles of all types will take over here like everywhere else, in passenger cars, military land equipment, etc, because it is an absolute logistic competitive necessity - just like using all available energy is. No one who's buying a motor vehicle cares deeply about environmental...

Ah, no, not really, and i'm one of the many, many "theys" that get paid big bucks to "get" people, so they don't get got in bad, bad ways - and can gracefully recover when they do get breached. It is true though that one of the best ways you don't get got is by not putting things on wide area...

Mostly insurance companies, banks, law enforcement, and foreign governments buy most of the brokered data. Of course marketing firms. There are individuals like myself, private investigators, and law firms that buy it as well but we are small potatoes on that front and we buy through third...

Absolutely, they're building more of *everything* - and everyone is going to use all the energy available to them, of every type, us included. They're just doing it with higher thermodynamic efficiency than we are, currently.

Ford has certainly been an underperformer in the space, but at least they didn't abandon hybrids like GM, which will have to back track on that fumble. GM is "variable profit positive" on their EV segment now, and EBIT losses for Ford look like they'll be significantly pared this year but they...

I'm a ham radio guy, but t-mobile's starlink beta is free for anyone to sign up through July, $10/month thereafter. Basically if you can see the sky you have coverage. https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service (works with any carrier on the following devices) These devices...

Hard to be invisible with FLOCK/ALPRs on every street corner and in every parking lot these days, but you can at least button your fly and eliminate most of your digital attack surface heheh. https://deflock.me/

I started specializing in offensive cybersecurity and penetration testing about a decade ago, and that fuse will be removed before I roll off the dealer lot and the radio emissions of the truck verified on my spectrum analyzer once it rolls through the garage door at home. If you don't want to...

Oh, that's a big deal too, the US manufacturers have really stagnated and seem unable to adapt quickly anymore, old and slooooow. "New energy vehicles" account for >76% of the world's biggest auto market now, while the US has barely broken 20%. Risk averse to the extreme, with predictable...

Hah! That reminds me of the seats that came in the bed of the Subaru Brat - any unruly passenger just stick them in the bed!