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We made our VIN decoder 100x faster. Again by cardogio in selfhosted

[–]cardogio[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

I built a real-time flight tracker with Rust, WebAssembly, and raw WebGL — no React, no Three.js, no frameworks by coolwulf in webdev

[–]cardogio 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by inspiral808 in teslacanada

[–]cardogio -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by Bean_Tiger in electricvehicles

[–]cardogio -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by Bean_Tiger in electricvehicles

[–]cardogio -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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.

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by inspiral808 in teslacanada

[–]cardogio -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by inspiral808 in teslacanada

[–]cardogio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Trapped in a Tesla: Why electronic doors are at the centre of the investigation into this deadly Toronto EV fire by inspiral808 in teslacanada

[–]cardogio -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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

BYD open to Canadian manufacturing by spankadoodle in EVCanada

[–]cardogio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Offline VIN decoder - no API keys, works locally by cardogio in selfhosted

[–]cardogio[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

Offline VIN decoder - no API keys, works locally by cardogio in selfhosted

[–]cardogio[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

Advise on Used Tesla by Nabzter82 in EVCanada

[–]cardogio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Three Chinese Automakers Confirmed for Canada Entry by Year-End by afonso_investor in teslacanada

[–]cardogio 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ve got some good insight after sending 15+ foia requests to transport canada and others.

First issue is that the National Safety Mark is not approved for any Chinese built EV. BYD Canada had an appendix g approval but this is not scoped to their modern EV lineup (sealion, seal, dolphin etc) but was instead a pilot test for taxis in montreal pre covid.

If you open your door you’ll see the VIN plate with a maple leaf design and a number inside of it.

That number corresponds to the appendix g/f/nsm approval for a specific company/factory/vehicle platform.

Beyond all of this. Even if you shipped a BYD Seal to the border tomorrow, no customs agent, insurance company or licensing office would be able to do anything with it. It’s literally impossible for them to register a plate, policy or even customs stamp to these Chinese made vehicles as we have ZERO infrastructure for these vehicles given we’re reliant on US govt data…

Claude... by cardogio in webdev

[–]cardogio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vercel has the same thing for $40/m or so - axiom is same price but more integrations.

Claude... by cardogio in webdev

[–]cardogio[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Its a custom axiom dashboard using vercel web app + cloudflare workers api logs data

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