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Pretty much anything hardware based is like this. Everything is 100% closed source and bolted down such that inspecting it is outright impossible without extens
by rfgplk 3d ago
Pretty much anything hardware based is like this. Everything is 100% closed source and bolted down such that inspecting it is outright impossible without extensive reverse engineering.
- hn_submit 3d agoI believe one of the feasibilities we have with electric locomotion is the standardization of components: electric motors, motor controllers, batteries and battery chargers. These being interchangeable will lead to lower costs through competition and more innovation. It's disappointing that manufacturers are moving the other way to enable vendor lock-in. But only one manufacturer has to jump the fence and the others will be left behind.
- awakeasleep 3d agoI’m suspicious of this vision because for example, with battery packs, cells with compatible voltage and size have vastly different characteristics. Those characteristics, like safe discharge rate, capacity, projected cycle count, are all things that manufactures exaggerate or get wrong. I don’t think there’s any way that consumers can ever be informed enough to have an efficient market in products such as those