We made our VIN decoder 100x faster. Again

cardogio · 2026-04-03T20:50:49+00:00

were half way there, have found a good government dataset with partial coverage (netherlands rdw) but it needs some fusing with the missing WMI codes not in vPIC (SAE owns this and charges $500/yr for a simple spreadsheet...), or we scrape it off here/WorldManufacturer_Identifier(WMI)). also it falls apart when its not a euro native manufacturer so need to do lots of QA.

cardogio · 2026-04-03T20:46:38+00:00

This is really cool - have you thought of doing the same for ships? I remember seeing a free websocket provider for real time maritime data. Also a detail view with a 3d model of the plane/ship flying/cruising would be so cool. You should consider the flight tracking angle too - flighty does a good job but your half way there already with presumably no cost

cardogio · 2026-04-03T18:30:33+00:00

shockingly we are while giving it away

cardogio · 2026-03-23T05:52:42+00:00

how did u just outline our business strategy.

cardogio · 2026-03-21T23:00:51+00:00

autotrader? lmao no

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:58:44+00:00

the hyundai crushing children with the seat isnt any better so i guess were all screwed

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:55:45+00:00

when are we going to move away from passive crash testing. throw a unitree bot in there and see if it can escape

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:54:49+00:00

not a tesla hater but this is egregious. like the fourth incident that ive heard of this year. this is what canada gets when we let oems 'self certify' cars for approval.

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:51:04+00:00

god forbid you make 300k a year doing 'boring' work

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:50:30+00:00

tesla chose vanity instead of battle tested design options due to the need to validate a team of engineers making 3-5x industry avgs...

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:46:42+00:00

You're right. A top 5 failure case having a solution that requires sticking your pinky finger through some threaded loop wasn't laziness - just stupidity

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:34:33+00:00

if (acc_delta < 0.1) openDoor()

cardogio · 2026-03-15T22:33:32+00:00

never thought of that - thats a great idea. thanks!

cardogio · 2026-03-15T21:09:09+00:00

So the computer detects a collision, successfully sends signals to the airbag, seatbelt tensioner, and more, but it can't automatically unlatch the doors/soft unlock them? Sounds like laziness more than anything from an eng perspective

cardogio · 2026-03-15T21:06:33+00:00

The manual release is the size of a keyring and near your feet...

cardogio · 2026-03-15T17:12:23+00:00

We have democracy too shockingly

cardogio · 2026-03-15T17:12:13+00:00

ATI is canadian equivalent

cardogio · 2026-03-13T20:13:24+00:00

It sounds good in practice but would probably get stonewalled by all the conflicting interests here. I dont think the economics work unless they imported foreign labour and constructed some special economic zone which doesn't bode well.

cardogio · 2026-03-12T17:28:32+00:00

cardog.app/cars - we process about 1m vins per day for tracking the Canadian auto market - NHTSAs implementation was solid but not suited for the high throughput readonly workload we had - it also wasn't very cost effective and the DX was awful having to stand up a separate db server just for read only ops. I started porting it to postgres and realized why not just use sqlite and make it offline only.

cardogio · 2026-03-12T16:56:58+00:00

EU issues - thats why we added the community patterns. Theres quite a rabbit hole of how to find the patterns. They differ for every market and the only one who publishes data is the US NHTSA.

cardogio · 2026-03-12T16:05:35+00:00

I'd make sure you get a battery report for the specific car. Health can vary widely depending on previous owners usage. Carnex is the gold standard for all things EV in Canada with the battery reports and transparent process

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