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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 年前The battery doesn’t have to fail for the car to be useless. One of those circuit boards that holds it all together goes and it’s “whoops, we don’t make that any more”.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 年前Sounds like we might need some new regulations around parts availability & stocking up before subcomponents go obsolete. At some point it becomes an environmental thing just as much as a consumer protection thing.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前Indeed just like a regular car. If cars lasted forever, they’d all go out of business within 20 years.
The battery doesn’t have to fail for the car to be useless. One of those circuit boards that holds it all together goes and it’s “whoops, we don’t make that any more”.
Sounds like we might need some new regulations around parts availability & stocking up before subcomponents go obsolete.
At some point it becomes an environmental thing just as much as a consumer protection thing.
So just like a regular car.
Indeed just like a regular car.
If cars lasted forever, they’d all go out of business within 20 years.