"the biomedical world needs to go through the same boom that tech went through in the last 20 years."

Not going to happen with all the regulation. Plus, I think half of us techies got into it for games and boobs (bypass parental controls). Not a lot of that same adolescent motivation in that field.

Yeah, but the culture surrounding computers now isn't the same as when whenever you grew up. The last few decades of tech didn't have ChatGPT to contend with. These days, going into medicine looks a lot more future proof than getting a CS degree.

I would love to see this with nitinol wire muscles.

Power use would be immense and it would be insanely slow.

Power use might be high depending on configuration, but speed shouldn't be that slow using capacitors. Sufficiently strong pneumatics tend to require quite a bit of power too.

A general rule I used in industry was that on plant air @7-ish bar, it took at least 5 hp worth of compressor capacity do 1 hp worth of work at the end of the hose.... No biggie on a small scale.

Considering 90%+ of the input energy goes to heat with NiTi actuators, Your walking robot would also double as a great space heater.

The most important question is not answered by the article - was it done intentionally or accidentally. That makes all the difference.

I yanked the bridge between the rest of the car and the cellular board.

I am surprised this hack is almost never mentioned in "your car is spying on you" articles. Removing the cellular modem is about as important when it comes to privacy as degoogling or disconnecting your "smart" TV from the Internet.

To be fair, many of the newer cars make it more difficult/permanent because they barely built in and not connected via a bridge/wire.

what if it's saving all that data offline and it gets uploaded during maintenance when they connect diagnostics or something?

Yeah, I have a Ford F150 lightning. I just pulled fuse 8. I periodically connect it so I can receive over the air updates. I hope it doesn’t store all of its data and then upload it all at once every time I put the fuse back in.

I can't imagine it's designed to not log unless it had a live network connection.

You should use ForScan and disable the telemetry completely

That’s great, I didn’t know you could use software to do that and guarantee disconnection. Thank you!

You do understand that cars are designed to be in situations where they don't have network access for some time? parking underground and stuff?

Well my thinking is maybe the telemetry module (which has no power) might be doing the logging itself.

I was going to ask about this. Is there any documentation official or otherwise about how to take ones car offline?

It will be model and year specific. Mine happened to have a second board connected by a bridge.

I accidentally had a pocket knife in my backpack after a camping trip when I was a kid 20 years or so ago. Being a good/naive kid, I told the teacher. Luckily the teacher was cool and said just leave it alone and we never had this conversation. That could have ended very differently with no tolerance policies starting around then.

In high school, many kids had rifles and shotguns in their cars to go hunting after school. Then we were old enough to keep our mouths shut haha.

The high school I attended had a shooting range once upon a time. It was expected that the kids would brings their rifles to school to use it.

How times have changed.

Almost feels like they should just build a dongle of sensors that can plug into existing Linux systems, such as a Steam Deck, laptop, or desktop. It's almost as if people are walking around with screens and batteries in there pockets already. It's too bad they can't just make it plug into an Android phone

If you're in manufacturing and have a union in the US, there's a good chance your job just gets shipped overseas unless it's some sort of protected job that can't legally be done overseas (some defense stuff).

I think there's other phenomena that people might be interested in such as E-skip and tropospheric ducting. Although you cant really rely on those.

We're still vulnerable to low tech warfare. We keep developing expensive systems that can't be manufactured quickly. One of the main reasons for success in WW2 was the fact that we could produce decent weapons in great volume. Japan had limited resources (draw a parallel to our rare earth situation). Germany had many advanced weapons, but couldn't produce enough (draw a parallel to our missiles).

We could because we had an industrial base that knew how to make stuff, not MBAs with delusions of grandeur who are belatedly discovering that they are easily dispensed with once the Chinese have acquired the manufacturing know-how.

"The majority of the city does not give a shit."

Based on the voting, it seems they do give a shit but in the opposite direction.