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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 69 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Yeah no my relationship with my vehicles manufacturer should pretty much be "PART BAD SEND NEW ONE."

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (24 children)

Sadly that era of the vehicle industry is gone. Even if we completely forget electric vehicles, getting parts for any car is becoming harder, because the manufacturer is trying to sell you assembled bundles of things, rather than individual items.

But then we have electric cars. Swapping the battery in these is insanely costly, and if you need other repairs, brands like Tesla would purposefully go out of their way to ensure you only replace things at Tesla certified shops

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, the Rivian CEO talks about exactly that in this interview

In that scenario, we would be using one ECU to do everything I just described. In this case, it’s a much larger computer, but one computer. It’s a massive simplification for how we think about software development and also drives a lot of cost out of the vehicle because instead of 70 to 80 little boxes — little computer boxes with wiring and connectors and everything else — we have, in our case, seven.

So when one small thing stops working, you now have to buy their proprietary, expensive ECU instead of a cheap little microcontroller.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

And if your nav system crashes, so does your car

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