How are you going to fix your car when the part that needs replacing can only be replaced with a part from the original manufacturer matched to your ECU and they stopped making them?
Of course the part needs to integrate with the onboard computers so needs to be signed so it can’t be a used part. To prevent theft of course.
The replacement process requires special tools only provided to technicians at Brand Name dealers, or you’ll brick your ECU. Again to prevent theft you understand.
Now you’ll need to buy an entirely new vehicle because you can’t replace a throttle position sensor that costs $12 to produce.
If you think that’s far fetched… look into what John Deere does.
Capitalism is sprinting past the worst imaginings of the Unabomber.
That doesn’t mean his methods are justifiable or that industrialisation was a mistake but he was ahead of the curve in understanding where capitalists would seek to extract profit.
Your points are fine, but I think the OP you are replying to may have meant the car as the system, not the literal car within the system.
Now you can expand your comment to match their original intent with: how do we change the system when… For public safety you understand… to protect the children, you understand… To. . .
And at that point you may reach a rather hopeless cross-road.
How are you going to fix your car when the part that needs replacing can only be replaced with a part from the original manufacturer matched to your ECU and they stopped making them?
Of course the part needs to integrate with the onboard computers so needs to be signed so it can’t be a used part. To prevent theft of course.
The replacement process requires special tools only provided to technicians at Brand Name dealers, or you’ll brick your ECU. Again to prevent theft you understand.
Now you’ll need to buy an entirely new vehicle because you can’t replace a throttle position sensor that costs $12 to produce.
If you think that’s far fetched… look into what John Deere does.
Capitalism is sprinting past the worst imaginings of the Unabomber.
That doesn’t mean his methods are justifiable or that industrialisation was a mistake but he was ahead of the curve in understanding where capitalists would seek to extract profit.
Your points are fine, but I think the OP you are replying to may have meant the car as the system, not the literal car within the system.
Now you can expand your comment to match their original intent with: how do we change the system when… For public safety you understand… to protect the children, you understand… To. . .
And at that point you may reach a rather hopeless cross-road.
I think it’s the crossroad that the Unabomber reached.