Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.

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    1 year ago

    I thought only the American models were easy to steal because they left out some critical antitheft features on the lowest cost models? Didn’t think it impacted other countries.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure their refering to the fact that certain Kia(?) models could be jacked using a screwdriver and USB. Basically the engines power button was shit. This is also why I dont fucking trust cars that use startup buttons, atleast if someone hotwires the car they had to work for it.

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        1 year ago

        It only affected key start cars, if it was push button start, it was immune to the attack you describe.

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          1 year ago

          I was going off of something I vaguely remembered. But now my question is why the actual fuck was the key start system setup so badly.

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            1 year ago

            My understanding is it doesn’t actually verify the chip on some models and the mechanism to start happens to be roughly the same size and shape as a USB plug. They took a risk and now they’re paying for it with a full recall

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            1 year ago

            That’s a damn good question, when chip-keys were fairly common in the 90’s already.