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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A/V systems are $2000 computers now. There is no separate speaker unless you're going to clip your car stereo speakers

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah canbus systems are an absolute fucking nightmare too. The same wire controling several systems.

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

Than 2 minutes on how to manipulate the switch in a way so that it detects a press every time you start your car.

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

I guess you missed the part in the article where it said it's been optional but that will change

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone who worked on design for a previous iteration of this said that their company deliberately routed the 'beep over a certain speed' signal via a wire between two modules for precisely this rrason.

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

I heard they paid

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

So instead of clipping a wire you plug in a Bluetooth OBD interface and flip a bit in the car’s memory that the engineers conveniently forgot to remove which disables the beeps…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lol, no! The ODBC port allows readouts only, you cannot change the programming of any of the components in your car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh shit boys, we found im!