<story><title>Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/mazda-slaps-developer-with-cease-and-desist-for-diy-smart-home-integration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mirkules</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked for a large OEM, dealing with a large Japanese megacorp that is not Mazda for about two years (actually Mazda was one of our customers too, but I didn&amp;#x27;t get to work with them directly). This does not amaze me anymore.&lt;p&gt;We spent &lt;i&gt;months&lt;/i&gt; agonizing over an interior temperature sensor, which was only used to display the information to the user on a smartphone app. We built both the hardware and software, and it was offered as an add-on at the dealerships.  After months of negotiations, after the hardware was already built and the packages assembles, they decided temperature sensors were too inaccurate (+&amp;#x2F;- 5 degrees F) to use, and that it could present a legal liability. Again, this was nothing else but displaying the information on the app - and the user could then make a decision whether to remote start the car to cool it or heat it (no automatic process took place either).&lt;p&gt;This was at the height of &amp;quot;unintended accelerator&amp;quot; issue in Toyotas, so everyone was walking on egg shells playing it ultra safe to not invite any more lawsuits.&lt;p&gt;What surprises me is that this culture of &amp;quot;playing it safe&amp;quot; remained to this day, some 10 years later (but maybe it shouldn&amp;#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wutwutwat</author><text>Idk about everyone else but when it comes to anything running in my car, _anything_, there is no such thing as excessive &amp;quot;playing it safe&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s a 2 ton mass of steel barreling down the highway at 70+ mph next to other unpredictable 2 ton masses, please for the love of God, fight to maintain that culture of &amp;quot;playing it safe&amp;quot;, regardless of what you&amp;#x27;re working on and for what purpose.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/mazda-slaps-developer-with-cease-and-desist-for-diy-smart-home-integration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mirkules</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked for a large OEM, dealing with a large Japanese megacorp that is not Mazda for about two years (actually Mazda was one of our customers too, but I didn&amp;#x27;t get to work with them directly). This does not amaze me anymore.&lt;p&gt;We spent &lt;i&gt;months&lt;/i&gt; agonizing over an interior temperature sensor, which was only used to display the information to the user on a smartphone app. We built both the hardware and software, and it was offered as an add-on at the dealerships.  After months of negotiations, after the hardware was already built and the packages assembles, they decided temperature sensors were too inaccurate (+&amp;#x2F;- 5 degrees F) to use, and that it could present a legal liability. Again, this was nothing else but displaying the information on the app - and the user could then make a decision whether to remote start the car to cool it or heat it (no automatic process took place either).&lt;p&gt;This was at the height of &amp;quot;unintended accelerator&amp;quot; issue in Toyotas, so everyone was walking on egg shells playing it ultra safe to not invite any more lawsuits.&lt;p&gt;What surprises me is that this culture of &amp;quot;playing it safe&amp;quot; remained to this day, some 10 years later (but maybe it shouldn&amp;#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Woah I&amp;#x27;d have guessed that temperature sensors would be more accurate than that! Is it just an issue of cost, or are most affordable temp sensors that inaccurate and I&amp;#x27;ve never realised it? That would explain a lot though!</text></comment>