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Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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