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I have a Honda 2019 Accord. Its great car. And I bought it off lease for a mere $12,500.00. The price was so low because it doesn't have all the tech-junk that is common with cars today.
However, it does have an internal diagnostic system that goes nuts every now and then.
While driving on a highway, the diagnostic system will sometimes pop up messages telling me that my brake-system has failed,along with a host of other issues. However, nothing is wrong. The brakes still work fine and so does everything else.
This all started happening after the last software-recall from Honda.
Never had an issue with the older software...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Hey - at least they tried! Not just any group of engineers can break the management barrier! 
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Is the battery in the trunk? We had once a dead battery in a grocery store parking lot, and one of the staff was so kind as to come out to give us a boost. When he backed his car up to ours, I was thinking WTF?! I don't recall what kind of car he had, but its battery was in the trunk, so I learned something new that day!
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Actually, no it's in front where it is supposed to be.
This wanders off my original chuckle, but the car comes with Roadside Assist. I was pleasantly impressed with the speed at which they got out there. Turns out, one of the cells of the battery had died (less than 1000 miles and 3 months old). So, dealer replaced the battery and made a specific notation that what killed it was the dash cam that was plugged in. I call bull chips on that, but that's another story.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A bunch of people on YT were posting videos to tell me that batteries
were going flat because their dealers had hidden GPS trackers on their new cars so the cars could be found and repossessed.
This seemed a bit paranoid, but there were lots of viewer comments with similar stories. Even from people who had paid cash for the cars.
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I saw something like that for other cars... I'll have to look into this.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Most modern vehicles are online all the time. My F150 does software updates about every two weeks. It logs and reports locations, speeds, engine performance, etc.
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Greg Utas wrote: its battery was in the trunk
My '06 Dodge Charger's battery is in the trunk. I believe today's are still there.
I suppose one of the main benefits is that even today, it remains as clean and corrosion-free as the day I bought it.
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Greg Utas wrote: its battery was in the trunk
My (soon-to-be-ex) wife has a Dodge Challenger, where the battery is in the trunk. Dodge made the masterful design decision to make the trunk latch a solenoid. Dead battery, you can't open the trunk from outside the car. You have to open the door using the emergency key in the fob, climb into the back seat, let the rear seat backs down, roll onto your back, slide to the rear of the trunk, and pull the internal trunk release cable.
Yeah, I curse the morons that designed the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing thing. Good news is it's being sold as part of the divorce settlement and I won't have to deal with the er any more.
Software Zen: delete this;
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BMW likes to put the battery to the trunk for better handling of the car (50-50% weight on axles).
Sometimes one battery is not enough for even an ICE only car.
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BMWs.... I call them *icks with wheels. I once saw a BMW driver use his signal. Scared the hell out of me.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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User interfaces in cars are the worst. My dad worked for over 40 years as a mechanic - I keep telling him computers aren't as complicated as today's car consoles.
This stuff needs to be standardized.
But, a module placed at the back of a car, that makes an audible beep, is a different type of bad interface decision altogether.
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Be aware an alternator can destroy a battery - this happened to me 3 months after replacing the battery (2016 CX5) total cost $1200 AUD.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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charlieg wrote: For those of us who write software that communicates with people, please don't do this crap.
Was the beep in morse code at least?
Jeremy Falcon
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No, very steady three beep sequence.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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That's an 'O'.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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My 2021 Ford F150 doesn't come with a user's manual for some odd reason.
It has all these stupid nags and I haven't found a way to turn them off. Worst part is the EPAS -- Electronic Power Assisted Steering.
On my 2016 F150, I dropped a wheel into a rut on a country road. EPAS "thought" the truck was rolling and took over steering. And actually rolled the truck.
Air bags went off which caused the truck to be totalled. Three weeks after I settled with the insurance company, I got a recall notice to come in and have a software update installed to correct a steering problem.
I do not trust software even though I have been a developer for over 55 years.
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It's been my experience that engineers who use some form of 'beep' are the same engineers who insist that source code needs no comments i.e. everything you write is self documenting, and so it is with everything you 'beep'. 
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Well, smartphones and their offerings have made a whole generation (maybe two) stupider, so it's almost certain that they won't fare much better with a text-generating robot.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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As is the norm, SO already deleted the page at the link you provided.
That's good ole SO for you.
This is what I see[^].
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and me
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, they have a fairly strict rule about non-questions.
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At least for me that link goes to a page that says the author deleted it.
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Hello all,
Ready to pull the trigger and get a 5k2k 40" monitor.
Now I own two 24" QHD monitors which have the text slightly small, that would be 2560x1440@60hz with 122.38ppi.
Currently what can be seen in my monitors at 100% and at 125%: https://www.imghippo.com/i/VBMaG1719656408.png[^]
The monitor I am about to buy gives 5120x2150@120Hz with 138.92ppi.
If I scale it to 125% (windows UI scaling)... would it become 4096x1720@120Hz with 111.06ppi? <-- that's wrong, of course pixel density won't change. But font size at 125% here should be a little bit bigger than the font I have now in my current 24" QHD monitors right?
Thank you very much in advance!
modified 3 days ago.
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