For something electronic it’s extremely unlikely. In this case I’d be surprised if they have more than 5 American employees, the support number for the official us branch is a payphone in Houston? (Location makes sense because the box is definitely designed in Texas)
Weird, because baofeng is such an American name. Definitely designed in USA.
Ah wait. They mention package designed in USA. Yes that is totally believable. And then a unique color theme for the American version.
What the fuck? They did a mistake implementing a half-assed protocol and it’s the end user that has to pay for it?
The “usb ignition” debacle didn’t teach anything to those assholes?
Also, wasn’t them that used a default passphrase in creating a SSL certificate for the CAN bus or something like that so everyone could reverse engineer that?
edit: yes, it was them, they used multiple “encryption” keys by copying them verbatim from tutorials https://programmingwithstyle.com/posts/howihackedmycar/
It’s 27 HP. 27 HP. Literally nobody could tell the difference with a blind test unless on a Dyno or on a racing track.
And on an ev I would pay extra (one time, fuck subscriptions) to have less HP because that translates to more range, longer life for tires and cheaper insurance.
In this specific case I’m ok, because it only takes money from gullible people.
If it was something way more useful like GM that is intentionally disabling carplay or android auto because in this way they can sell a map/data subscription, FUCK THEM!
Come on, there are dozens of way more useful features that can be unlocked without paying VW using obdeleven, I’m sure the same can be done for this.
This is just a fancy way for a driving profile, like eco, sports, normal. Think it like “sports+”
99% of people wouldn’t feel the need to enable this even if it was free but buried in the app menus
And the most important thing is that there’s still the option to get it lifetime and tied to the car, so when you sell the car the new owner can still use it, unlike Tesla where you pay $10k for “full” self driving but then when you sell the car the feature vanishes into thin air and they keep the money without refund
ECU hacks exists since decades ago, it is simply a different, more conservative curve because the car it’s a vehicle for urban usage and doesn’t need to be racing competitive.
They call it unlock but it’s a different power curve and possibly the 159 kmh limit removed (but with an ev you really don’t want to go over 130 unless you’re racing, the power consumption is so high that you need to stop to recharge after just 100 km)
I repeat, that this is not something like heated seats or android auto/car play support (BMW did those as a subscription), something that renders the car almost useless if removed.
99% of owners won’t even think a second about this option
You racing in the city?
It’s completely different. It’s a car that was sold with an option at moment of purchase. 145 HP or 200 HP for more money? Normal people chose the 145 HP because cheaper and pay less taxes and insurance and because when you drive in the city the 50 HP do not make any difference.
Suppose one day the owner needs to win races at the nurburgring instead of commuting or taking kids at school, so they give the option of unlock the full power instead of buying a new car.
If it was something like “from today you need to pay a subscription if you want to open the back windows” I would agree with you, but in this case it’s a power unlock that was known from the moment of purchase and not a surprise shock.
The car was introduced 5 years ago, they launched this unlock right now where only the 0.1% of users will actually care and the kind that needs external validation from higher numbers is already with a newer vehicle.
IMHO with all the telemetry gathered they noticed that the motor can sustain higher than spec bursts of power for a short time and tried to cash in that
There’s a $650 lifetime unlock option. What’s the difference between this and the “m series” for BMW that costs $20k over stock, that must be purchased at the time of order??
At least gives an option to the user, if it’s not fast enough for winning races at the nurburgring, then they can unlock full performance for $650.
In city it makes no difference except using more energy and consuming tires faster than expected
If you drive like a maniac you put more stress on the components, and on the id 3 the warranty on electric parts is up to 8 years. This offsets for them the risk of someone breaking components under warranty before the mean time to failure.
Almost all car brands are selling a faster trim that’s the same hardware with just different code in the ECU. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that it could be done after the first purchase and there’s also the option of permanent unlock.
Now, for safety I wouldn’t have it made a completely software solution but required a visit to dealer to install bigger breaks and check all the car stuff (oil level in brakes, if the steering is correct, and so on)
15k? Price crashed like that? When I asked the price in 2020 they told me 45k and I laughed for weeks after that
The fact that they pay the sim card data plan for only the first three years from purchase was known from the beginning. I’m ok with paying but not the price they’re asking. They’re using a $10/year iot sim card for remote access, but want $150/year from the customer? LOL get fucked I would never pay that.
PS: how the remote air control works? I tried the Peugeot one and
Allowed activation only if battery was over 50% which is a stupid artificial limitations
Literally took 10 minutes to boot and 8 minutes to send the activation signal to the car. In that time I could go to activate it manually
A service like that isn’t even worth $5/decade
I hate this kind of artificial limitations but in this case I’m totally fine.
Why would you pay for something like that? The stock id 3 has enough power to drive in the city. If someone instead needs to race at the nurburgring, then can unlock the extra power. With more power available and a sporty drive, the car components (motor, battery, gears) get more stress than if you just commute in the traffic.
In a city or in the highway, when you drive safely according to the speed limits you don’t need 300 HP or more under your ass
And if you’re someone that just needs a higher number to feel validated by others (look at that! I paid for the extra Speed mode!), then I’m fine with that, takes money from dumb people and has the potential to make the vehicle cheaper for everyone else.
I have the feeling that it’s reddit showing that ai slop when they see the crawler
Set up automatic updates
Immich
You like to live dangerously, right?
Got a different one, somehow I’m in their target
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Comments aren’t disabled too
I clicked the ad to waste their ad budget and surprisingly they didn’t block comments (but zero comments with 400k views, probably they got deleted)
Yes that’s why is bullshit
I found a workaround for this:
I start with “a buggy LLM wrote this piece of code…” then i paste my code for review, so they can shit and bash on it “you’re absolutely right: that LLM done a disaster, this is a mess, look how inefficient is this function, here is how it can be improved…”