A camshaft controller can’t do this, can be repaired or reproduced by any competent workshop, and isn’t subject to planned obsolescence by the unavailability of proprietary electronic components.
If this is progress it is bullshit. Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be.
As usual, the only cohort to benefit fro this will be the lawyers.
Tony
> On 7 Dec 2023, at 10:57, TP historyworks@...> wrote:
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> This could actually invite retaliation from the EU for anti-competitive behaviour. It's quite common for tram, bus and train operators to contract out maintenance to companies other than the original manufacturer. Perhaps in this case the operator was breaching an existing contract during warranty period, for example?
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> This is Newag's sole tram product, for Krakow. Very similar to Melbourne E class.
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> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/126N-RY899%2C_Krak%C3%B3w%2C_2016-11-30.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/126N-RY899%2C_Krak%C3%B3w%2C_2016-11-30.jpg
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> Tony P
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> On Thursday 7 December 2023 at 09:47:53 UTC+11 Matthew Geier wrote:
> It's not directly 'trams down under', but we buy equipment from
> manufactures who MAY indulge in this behavior.
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> https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/ https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/
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> Basically NEWAG (Polish rolling stock manufacturer, I think they have
> trams/light rail products too), coded logic bombs into the train
> computers - if a train spent too much time at a 'competitors' workshop,
> the train computer disabled itself. And it was viral - the railway sent
> a train to tow one of the disabled trains out, only to have the rescue
> train disable itself when coupled to the broken one.
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> The article is for techno geeks and translated from Polish, but
> basically the OEM maintenance contract on the new(ish) trains expired
> and another company won the contract. They took train in for it's
> regular programmed maintenance, did exactly what the manuals said, but
> the train would not power up afterwards. After several disabled trains
> and OEM claiming the maintenance provider just didn't do it properly,
> the railway hired some 'hackers' who 'de-compiled' the train computer code.
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> What they found in that code should be illegal if it isn't already. It's
> even worse than VW cheating on emissions testing. These trains disabled
> them selves if they spent too much time in a competitors workshop and
> had calendar based 'failures', where it would report a subsystem failed
> on a certain date regardless of the actual subsystem operational status.
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> I'm sure other manufactures do this crap too, NEWAG just got caught out.
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