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"The high voltage wires were just dragging on the street sparking, presumably with all the safety features disabled"
"They were driving with a 10 gallon coolant tank on the roof, presumably because the coolant loop had a big leak and needed continuous topping up".
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Where I live there are yearly check ups that you need to do, or you simply cant legally drive your car
Are those even user serviceable? So, it won't stop everyone but it will stop most of them.
Most EVs have lockouts that will be very hard to bypass for things like this.
It’s more ‘I could have replaced a few cells in my battery pack, but the car bricked itself when I opened the pack! Assholes!’.
Notably many recent ICE cars aren’t much better.
You're not allowed to drive cars like that in a functional society. When you go for your compulsory car checkup it wouldn't pass the required safety standards.