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Sure, but there is a prioritization system involved where the highest payer gets pushed first. So the AI may detemine you like X, but if the buyer only showing Y, you'll get to see ads for Y and no X.

It is different. Rules and laws are supposed to make sense, but the one with 10 mph is not. There are limita to 250 kph in Europe and I dont see car dealers going down. Also, for years there are emissions regulators that make life hard for auto makers, but they obey and still sell cars.

Mercedes is trying with MBOS.

They are including Eth, not switching to it completely. They will keep the CAN buss there as long as it makes sense. Instrument clusters with graphical display output do use the Eth more and more because the amount of data beats the capacity of a CAN bus by far, but devices without big data transfer needs will stay on CAN. For example, what need is ther for Eth for an electronic gear lever? Not much data being exchanged.

Not sure what you mean by "not bridged across them", but devices on different communication busses (CAN, Flexray, Ethernet...) do communicate with each other through these devices called "Gateways".

SecOC is based on symmetric key cryptography. If an ECU is replaced and has a new key, this key will have to be taught to all other ECU's in the vehicle communicating with it.

Yes they do. First, they normally buy complete electronics (functional devices with or without software), not just chips. Second, they do have strong contracts, spreading for 3, 4, 5+ years, specifying the volumes for each contracted year and also the piece price (among other details, of course).

I still feel more connected to the world when I tune into some FM station than when I am listening to some Spotify playlist. Same with TV: even if I watch movies or series on streaming services, I still watch the news almost every day at 7PM and, during the day I do switch in and out some national news TV network. Both the TV and FM, even if flooded by ads, still make me feel connected to the world, while streaming services kind of put me in a bubble. Maybe it's worth also noting that in my country(EU member state) the ratio of ads to real program is limited and controlled by government. So stations cannot abuse it and take it to 50/50, the ads are limited to 20% duration (12 minutes every hour).

TV and FM ads are innocent children compared to the shameless promotions in youtube videos, for example, so I've learned to tolerate them, laugh at some of the worst ones, or just ignore/change station when I am not in the mood. TV is not dying in my house nor the radio in my car.

Dude, the notch on the phone on your website looks 20% larger, not smaller! /joke

It failed because, based on the evidence I have submitted to the national authority for data protection (the national entity enforcing the gdpr), they were not able to rule in my favor. In the e-mail exchange between me and Blizzard, they declared they store process data anonymized, but I don't believe it, since based on that data they decide to ban real game accounts (which are linked to real personal data). Going to trial just to try to prove a point wasn't worth it for me, but at least I have seen the national authority for data protection actualy reading the documents I have submitted, fundamenting their ruling with quotes from them.

Also pure anecdotal, I have had GDPR interactions with EPIC Games (asked them to delete my account) and Blizzard Entertainment (asked them to retrieve my data). Both went well. The interaction with EPIC was manual, I had to send an email and got back what it looked like a personalized e-mail. Account seemed to be deleted.

With Blizzard it went a bit different. They do have online automated tool to download your own data, but with a twist: they refused to provide what they consider security risk information. They did provide a lot of data (even years old chat logs) but did not provide the information I was looking for: list of processes running on my PC, which they scan periodically, as an anti-cheating mechanism. I went further and filed a GDPR infringement complaint to the national office but it failed. Last option was to sue, but I gave up.

Both Epic and Blizzard are US based.

Are your really sure this is how it works even for atutomotive electronics? I am involved in the automotive industry, more in tech aspects than in comercial ones, but what I know is:

- car makers don't make their electronics. I don't know of exceptions. What they normally do is to design the architecture, the requirements and buy from Tier 1 supppliers: Bosch, Continental, Vitesco, Valeo, Delphi, Magneti Marelli etc.

- the contracts, when awarded, are multi anual and usualy specifiy the units per year during project lifetime production and in serial life (after the product is not produced, the supplier MUST GUARANTEE to be able to provide the part)

- these contracts usualy go in numbers like N million parts (ECUs) for 4-5 year total (SoP date to EoP date) + serial life for X years. Then they get detailed, even the plants where the parts are made ar negotiated. Slips on both sides come with penalty. I don't know all the details.

- lots of electronics are safety relevant (iso 26262) especially in this case, once HW design is frozen, is frozen. You cannot change silicon components easy as this will make the product undergo a long series of product and design validation which take many months => the Tier 1 supplier MUST SECURE it's own supply from chip makers.

- usual "suspects" to supply the Tier 1 are chip makers like Infineon, Renesas, NXP, STM. Probably at some point, maybe TSMC comes into the picture. There are many providers of small electronic parts.

And more importantly above all, in my opinion, is the profit. A portion of the revenue generate by an employee becomes profit. Lower the revenue (since lower hours) means lower net profit. Giving up net profit is not somthing a business owner thinks about lightly.

For your example's sake, if the work for one job is just a tenth, then it means that for a 5 men job, a manager would need to hire 50 people. The manager would be overwhelmed and add cost to the company by asking for a colleague. It's not easy to manage 50 people. But maybe the manager wants to diversify himself, so instead of 2 manager for 50 people, you'll have... 20 managers for 50 people. You need a managers' manager. Where does it end? :)