07-29-2021, 12:54 PM
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10 hours ago, arcticwolf said:
caterpillar is a serious culprit with the new computer controlled equipment, any sensor shows a not on spec reading for over a few secs, it shuts everything down
requiring a dealer tech to reprogram the entire system taking a day, after waiting a few days for the tech to show up, by the time he does a big job has more then one shut down
at least once a week something shuts down right in the middle of what ever the operator was doing, no clue even why in most cases, almost never need a sensor or anything replaced, just need to reset the computer so it will go past whatever it thought was wrong that has almost always been a very momentary thing. Not possible for the owner or operator to access, and simply click the trouble code and reset.
The old wore out equipment gets more work done in a given week then most of the new shit.
Hopefully this is the sort of crap that the Executive Order addresses. And then lets someone modify the code without Mfgr voiding warranties or claiming "Proprietary property".
I saw an episode on Discovery where they were trying to use a brand new Dodge engine for short-track racing. Without all the body sensors, passenger compartment processor, dashboard processor, and about 175 Lbs of other passenger car shit. Just the engine computer. After a couple of days of fails they called in a "black hat" crew to hack the engine software. Which was successful, but would be totally disallowed if the owner wanted to do so with the original Dodge (they just used the engine, in a race body, and threw away the rest of the Dodge.)
Um, yeah, I'm quite sure that voided the Dodge warranty. No one would expect otherwise. But the point is, if you buy something, you should be able to do any damn thing you want with it, and not be locked out by the f'ing software.
