Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool
arstechnica.com
Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.
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Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.
I already thought Mazda sucked and made shit products, so it’s nice that they confirmed it’s not just their products that are mediocre at best, it’s their whole business.
Edit: Turns out my long standing perception of Mazda is woefully incorrect. I could have sworn they had a string of bad reliability issues in the early 2000’s and 2010’s but it turns out that’s just plain wrong. Couldn’t tell you what I was thinking of. Leaving the OG comment to laugh at my mistake.
They can still eat a bag of dicks though for this DMCA abuse though.
Can you elaborate? All the people I know had good experiences with mazda
Yea, not sure what hes comparing Mazdas to.
As someone who's turned wrenches since the late 70's, Mazda is in my top 3 for reliability: Honda, Toyota, Mazda, in that order.
Every other brand you get to fix the same thing more than once, have weird failures, mixture of Metric and ACU bolts (looking at you American Manufacturers), over-designed systems making trouble-shooting and repair more difficult and costly (like VW tying the door lock ECU to the air conditioning), crappy electrics (Chrysler/Dodge wins on this one, they're almost as bad as as 70's British car with Lucas electrics), weird and problematic mixtures of vendor sources (again, Chrysler, since the days they bought AMC they've continued to have hodge-podge vehicles, like the Chryslers with Mercedes diesel engines, but modified so they don't always use the exact same parts), etc, etc.
I could go on for days listing each manufacturer's pain points.
Far less so with the 3 Japanese listed. For the most part, their vehicles are all their own (some exceptions with Mazda when they were owned by Ford, and Toyota had some GM ties over the years), and even those cars are more Japanese design/engineering/manufacturing than Big 3.
Tried to search up what I could have sworn was bad quality control problems. Turns out I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.
I appreciate your response. With the amount of negativity, doomers and tankies in the fediverse i have started to get suspicious about people.
I have a Mazda6 estate 2.2 diesel and pretty happy with it. Compared to other cars in the same class it's no worse regarding reliability as far as I could research