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Ironically, my cars don't run Linux for the same reason my computers do: I'm militant about protecting my property rights and privacy, so I refuse to have any car new enough to have "infotainment" because it's all closed-source and Tivoized. It's effectively hostile, despite the Linux kernel at the bottom of it.
I'll buy a car made after the mid-2000s when I can re-flash the whole thing with non-DRM'd community-supported software, and not a minute before.
That'll literally never happen due to testing and safety requirements.
Yeah, just like how DIYing car repairs and modifications has been illegal for decades now.
...oh wait.
Back in reality, yet again "X but on a computer" is not somehow magically different from "X", and pretending it is as an excuse to curtail property rights is nothing but authoritarian fearmongering.
You literally cannot mess with your emissions system legally.... nor can you disable or modify certain safety systems (seat belts, etc). Software that goes into vehicles requires validation testing. You might be fine doing 1 off things, but there will never be a "flash able" car on the market that let's you bring your own software, and honestly I'm good with that. I don't need your massive multiple ton machine bluescreening down the highway or locking up the breaks randomly because you installed the wrong module.
First of all, that's a Clean Air Act thing with limited purpose and scope, not a blanket restriction on owners' right to modify their property. Moreover, it is certainly not a restriction imposed and enforced by manufacturers that somehow justifies making the software closed-source and DRM'd. I want to make it clear here that, by supporting closed-source vehicle software, what you are really supporting is private enforcement of laws instead of government enforcement of laws, which is incredibly fucked up.
Second, it is not true that the act of messing with the emissions system is itself illegal. What's illegal is the act of using the vehicle on public roads afterwards. You can use your emissions-system-modified car off-road or on private property (e.g. farms or racetracks) all you want.
Third, the way that law is implemented is, frankly, bad and wrong anyway. Instead of saying that parts need to be EPA-certified (or, in practice, CARB-certified) to be legal to use and that the ECU has to report "ready," what it should do is say you can modify it however you want but that it has to pass a real "stick-a-probe-in-the-tailpipe-and-actually-fucking-measure" emissions test instead of a bullshit "visually inspect and plug a computer into the OBD2 port" test.
No, that's a lie. It is perfectly legal to swap your factory seat belts for a DOT-approved and properly-installed four-point racing harness, for instance.
That sort of thing could already happen for decades due to people fucking up their mechanical modification of the brakes, yet that's always been allowed. In practice, it isn't actually a widespread problem because people aren't actually as suicidally moronic as you seem to think they are, and that isn't going to magically change just because a computer is involved. Your argument is nothing but exactly the kind of fearmongering that I'm calling bullshit on.
sounds like jailbreaks are needed then
I’m in the same boat. So much that I just paid a bunch to replace the transmission of my 2012.. I could probably have not done that and invested in something newer, but I don’t… want that…
I’ll stick with just getting more of this exact car when this one isn’t repairable anymore (it has telemetry, but it can’t be accessed without plugging in directly, which isn’t typically a huge concern I have) Or when they can be flashed, as you say. Like I’d love to have an EV because I rarely drive far, but I absolutely won’t buy a spymobile to get one.
I'm taking the same strategy. I never thought I'd be a classic car person.
I mean; there's nothing stopping you from using a car from an earlier era; and bodging in an Android Tablet into your dashboard as an infotainment system.
The thing doesn't need to be concerned with your climate controls or anything else on your CAN bus for security reasons anyways. So you can leave those controls as they are and just let the tablet replace your Radio effectively for 100% DRM free media enjoyment with your favorite fully rooted and flashed tablet running whatever FLOSS version of Android firmware you like.
Personally there's just certain controls in a car I firmly believe should NEVER be digitized anyways.