MelatoninWhat is the smallest hill you would die on?
Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
Elaine CortezAgree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason
eightpixThe EU hears you.
Purple_Gameboy69Pretty big hill if you ask me
Im dying on it either way.
ÆnimaIm dying on it either way.
To a self-driving car, no less!
I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump.
sexy_peachThat does sound nice. Is it a proprietary system?
It does not connect to any of the smart home systems, it’s a system by the manufacturer of the unit (Mitsubishi)
JustEnoughDucksThough as a kind of “exception”, I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.
They do, the can-bus system has an odb2 port. You can get a reader that pairs with your phone for a few bucks or a standalone reader for 20ish. Theres no need to bring the internet into this.
touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.