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by exitb 58 days ago
The average time before a car NEEDS a replacement part to run must be at least a few years. That's a different situation from flipping a switch to turn all connected cars off.
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But on average, all cars are a few years old, and wars aren't over in a few months.
Mechanical parts can be reverse engineered after you run out of inventory and the ability to gray-source them via 3rd parties/countries.

Also that is an "eventual problem".

The era of smart everything exposes you to pinpoint time/place/person disablement by the enemy.

Who's "the enemy"? I surrender.

The philosophy and structure we rest on is much more precarious than our technologies.

Avoid becoming important enough to be targeted by any nation state
Not for a BMW though.
They'll also remote-disable all your seat warmers