Hacker News with Generative AI: Automotive

Hackers Steal MLB Star Kris Bryant's $200K Lamborghini by Rerouting Delivery (carscoops.com)
Thieves were reportedly able to use a compromised email to reroute the car to a different destination

Cybersecurity, Sports, Crime, Automotive

36 points by rntn 2 days ago | 19 comments

Can Injection: keyless car theft (2023) (kentindell.github.io)
This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. In April 2022, my friend Ian Tabor tweeted that vandals had been at his car, pulling apart the headlight and unplugging the cables.

Car Security, Automotive, Hacking, Crime, Technology

71 points by fanf2 4 days ago | 51 comments

Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash (myelectricsparks.com)
A devastating accident in Toronto involving a Tesla Model Y resulted in the tragic deaths of four individuals and the miraculous rescue of a young woman.

Tesla, Accidents, Safety, Automotive, Canada

209 points by json_bourne_ 5 days ago | 183 comments

Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount (insideevs.com)
Hertz's pioneering of EVs as rental cars seemed foolproof—less maintenance and a lower total cost of ownership are two things that any company competing in the rental space strives for. But as Hertz quickly found out, its grand experiment went horribly wrong. It's now become a giant clearance event, where everything must go.

Electric Vehicles, Business, Finance, Automotive

16 points by peutetre 5 days ago | 34 comments

Tesla Cybertruck recalled for the sixth time since January (theregister.com)
The Tesla Cybertruck is closing in on an average of a recall every two months this year, as it notified the NHTSA last week of a sixth fix that can't be software patched away.

Tesla, Recalls, Automotive, Vehicles, Safety

8 points by beardyw 6 days ago | 3 comments

Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there's no software fix (arstechnica.com)
Tesla has issued yet another recall for the angular, unpainted Cybertruck. This is the sixth recall affecting the model-year 2024 Cybertruck to be issued since January, and it affects 2,431 vehicles in total. And this time, there's no fix being delivered by a software update over the air—owners will need to have their pickup trucks physically repaired.

Tesla, Cybertruck, Recalls, Automotive, Software

9 points by lucasllinasm 8 days ago | 1 comments

Nissan cuts 9k jobs and goes into 'emergency' mode (electrek.co)
Nissan is in full-scale emergency mode to save itself: the automaker is cutting 9,000 jobs, slashing production capacity, and selling off its stake in Mitsubishi Motors. The CEO is also reducing his own salary by half.

Automotive, Layoffs, Business, Finance

8 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | 1 comments

Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program (torquenews.com)
A report from Automotive News (by subscription) reveals that Fisker Inc., the Ocean SUV electric car manufacturer located in Manhattan Beach, California, hired an IT worker who was a spy for the North Korean government to steal money for its missile program.

Espionage, Automotive, North Korea, Electric Vehicles

134 points by rmason 16 days ago | 113 comments

Headlights are too bright! But US experts say they're not bright enough (theguardian.com)
Driver complaints about high beams are commonplace, though specialists say US roads need to be better lit

Automotive, Safety, Lighting, Technology

10 points by bookofjoe 17 days ago | 0 comments

Mercedes-Benz opens its own recycling facility for EV batteries (arstechnica.com)
Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany.

Recycling, Electric Vehicles, Sustainability, Germany, Automotive

35 points by PaulHoule 19 days ago | 9 comments

Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop (pv-magazine.com)
The push to commercialize solid-state batteries (SSBs) is underway with industries from automotive to storage betting on the technology. But while the hype around full solid-state batteries has somewhat subsided, with the technology taking longer than expected to take off, semi-solid-state batteries, which use a hybrid design of solid and liquid electrolyte, have been making steady progress toward commercialization.

Solid-State Batteries, Battery Technology, Energy Storage, Automotive

30 points by rustoo 19 days ago | 4 comments

Toyota's Solid-State Battery Ambitions Are One Step Closer to Reality (carbuzz.com)

Toyota, Solid-State Batteries, Automotive, Technology, Innovation

7 points by RickJWagner 23 days ago | 0 comments

Volkswagen plans to close at least 3 German plants and cut thousands of jobs (ft.com)
Volkswagen plans to close at least 3 German plants and cut thousands of jobs

Automotive, Business, Germany, Layoffs, Manufacturing

8 points by belter 24 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla Model S Plaid Loses Nearly $100k in Value in 2 Years (jalopnik.com)
Depreciation is the number one consumer cost when it comes to buying a new car fresh from the factory.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Depreciation, Automotive, Finance

6 points by ChumpGPT 24 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving (electrek.co)
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will take.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Elon Musk, Technology, Automotive

11 points by peutetre 27 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving (electrek.co)
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will take.

Tesla, Self-Driving Cars, Elon Musk, Technology, Automotive

10 points by abduhl 28 days ago | 1 comments

System76 and Ampere pioneer custom-built Thelio Astra ARM64 developer desktop (system76.com)
Denver, CO—October 22, 2024—System76, the leading US-based manufacturer of Linux computers, has collaborated with chipmaker Ampere to create Thelio Astra, an arm64 developer desktop for autonomous vehicle (AV), automotive safety systems (ADAS), and software-defined vehicle (SDV) development.

Linux, Hardware, Automotive, Software Development, ARM

10 points by donatj 30 days ago | 0 comments

Mercedes-Benz battery recycling plant recovers '96%' of materials (electrek.co)
Mercedes-Benz just opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant using an innovative process that the automaker says enables recycling rate to more than 96%, all in-house and ready to be used in future Mercedes EVs.

Sustainability, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Recycling

33 points by peutetre 30 days ago | 18 comments

Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range (electrek.co)
Tesla has further delayed production of Cybertruck’s range extender and reduced the range that it will add to the electric pickup truck.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Cybertruck, Automotive

58 points by doener 30 days ago | 97 comments

Michael Valentine, 74, Who Helped Drivers Stay Under the Radar, Dies (nytimes.com)
Michael Valentine, an electrical engineer, loved to drive fast in his MGB sports car. But in 1974, after a national highway speed limit of 55 miles per hour was mandated as a fuel conservation measure, he believed that a “holy war” had begun: speed-seeking drivers against police officers trying to snare them with radar guns.

Obituaries, Automotive, Law Enforcement

13 points by ChrisArchitect 31 days ago | 2 comments

Pedestrian Head Protection, Global Technical Regulation No. 9 (regulations.gov)

Safety, Regulations, Transportation, Automotive

8 points by luu 33 days ago | 2 comments

BYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVs (bloomberg.com)
The Chinese company is flooding markets with its cars—while the US is doing everything it can to keep the booming brand out.

Electric Vehicles, China, Competition, Business, Automotive

3 points by helsinkiandrew 35 days ago | 5 comments

Tesla Motors Linux Kernel (github.com/teslamotors)
Linux sources

Tesla, Linux, Open Source, Automotive

41 points by wslh 41 days ago | 9 comments

Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server (arstechnica.com)
Starting a new car company isn't easy—just ask Henrik Fisker, whose second bite at that particular cherry ended the same way as his first when it filed for bankruptcy this July.

Automotive, Bankruptcy, Technology

16 points by stirlo 43 days ago | 21 comments

Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question (techcrunch.com)
Fisker’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy has hit a major snag, as the company buying the startup’s remaining fleet of electric SUVs says it might not complete the purchase because of a surprising technical issue.

Electric Vehicles, Bankruptcy, Business, Automotive

3 points by CatDaaaady 44 days ago | 1 comments

Rust (the language) is rolling off the Volvo assembly line (tweedegolf.nl)
From 2019 onwards, he has been the main software architect for the low-power processor ECU (electronic control unit) at Volvo.

Rust, Programming Languages, Automotive, Software Engineering

21 points by pjmlp 45 days ago | 1 comments

Tesla issues its fifth recall for Cybertrucks in a year (scrippsnews.com)
Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on sale late last year.

Tesla, Cybertruck, Recalls, Automotive

12 points by chirau 48 days ago | 9 comments

Mazda's $10 Subscription for Remote Start Sparks Backlash (carscoops.com)
Mazda now charges $10 or more per month for connected services such as remote start.

Automotive, Technology, Subscription Services, Consumer Backlash

57 points by thunderbong 52 days ago | 91 comments

Jeremy Clarkson Says All Modern Cars 'Are Shit' (jalopnik.com)
Throughout his decades as an automotive journalist, Jeremy Clarkson has been known for his often controversial takes on cars. Well, he’s got another one: modern cars are “all shit now.”

Cars, Automotive, Opinions, Jeremy Clarkson

29 points by rntn 54 days ago | 36 comments

Hyundai Faces New Theft Threat from "Game Boy" Hack (headlight.news)
Hyundai is facing a new threat from thieves as its EV models prove to be easy targets for theft.

Cybersecurity, Automotive, Hyundai, Electric Vehicles

16 points by based2 54 days ago | 22 comments