#Vehicle Connectivity

[market-insider]

Data-Driven Driving: Automotive Telematics Market Growth and Key Players

The global automotive telematics market size is expected to reach USD 170.43 billion by 2030. Increasing emphasis on improving the fuel efficiency, improvement in tracking vehicle location & speed and, rising focus on the passenger safety & experience are factors driving the growth of the market.

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Besides, the increasing government emphasis on the development of safer and smarter infrastructure by improving internet connectivity is expected to propel the growth of the market during the forecast period. For instance, in 2016 Russian government mandated the implementation of the emergency call-built system in the locally built and sold vehicles in the country, the law has similar standards based in Europe.

Increasing integration of the real-time fleet management and monitoring system by the OEM is driving the demand for automotive telematics systems in the market. For instance, In August 2022, Lighting eMotors launched Lighting Insights, it is an extension of the existing telematics system to manage and monitor the lighting fleet assets in real-time. The telematics system monitors the state of charge, vehicle efficiency, location, charge time scheduling, driving hours, payment method, load management, and others.

The cybersecurity of the automotive telematics system is one of the major concerns for automobile manufacturers in the market. The telematics systems software is connected through Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth in the vehicle. The real-time data procured through these softwares have a high possibility of tampering during cyber-attacks. Thus, to overcome these challenges key players such as Lighting eMotorf automotive telematics is offering encrypted 4G connection for real-time monitoring of the real-time analytics models.

Increasing integration of the automotive telematics system in the vehicle to track driver behavior and tendencies has benefited the insurance companies at large.

As, the data collected through the car telematics system is used for determining the policy cost of the vehicle, and their insurance premium. Thus, the rising demand for vehicle data collection through telematics devices by the insurance sector is expected to create new growth opportunities for the market.

[phoenixcatch7]

Security breach's story (including ruin) was super weird, right? Left a lot unexplained, introduced a lot of confusing elements, cleared nothing up, and made it worse with the ending of ruin. Very frustrating.

But.

I have a bold claim - in this essay I'm going to tell you that I think I've found the unifying theory of security breach, INCLUDING ruin. And no, it's nothing that's mentioned in the actual game.

It's 'Remnant'.

Now presumably matpat or some other theorist has made more detailed connections and I just haven't been able to find it, and I'm a casual fan at best lol. But I'm quite chuffed, so. I'm sharing.

Remnant is basically glowing soul juice produced by high emotions - children, trauma, excitement, suffering, death. Ectoplasm, essentially. It gets into physical objects and stores that emotion, like how a stuffed teddy is full of love or a torture device is full of pain. Yay!

Afton, during his killing spree, harvested this remnant from kids to fuel his plan for immortality (or something). He discovered along the way that if it was infused into a material like metal, then it could be shaped and, when combined with any form of intelligence ('even ai', he says!) it acts as a source of independent power 'that translates into movement, which is why things may appear haunted'. Ergo, animatronics. His perfect army of golems and test subjects.

The first round was, of course, fnaf 1, with the children literally stuffed into the suits to power them, which, yikes, horrible, and in a food establishment? Later he figured out how to skip the rotting corpse step and directly infuse metal, which made it temperature volatile and apparently hard to store. Anything is better than the first round. This resulted in sister location with the scooper, which could (as best I figure?) take the remnant out directly and store it for later use. It could also recycle animatronics, to scrap them without wasting all that precious soul juice that could theoretically power something forever.

Anyway, decades later, the same company is still running, and their precious 'animatronics' are now full on artificially intelligent robots with an army of drone cleaners and a dozen well covered up missing children.

You see where I'm going with this?

I think the glam rock animatronics are crafted out of the newest, highest grade remnant metal to bring them to life (maybe a little too much)... and to aid in the gathering of remnant to power Trap/afton, in his little recharge pod under the earth, at vannys direction. (And presumably all that after hour neon lighting, let's be real.)

The animatronics are all secretly equipped with track and destroy technology - roxy with her sensitive ears and x-ray eyes, chica with her stunlock voice box, monty with his metal rending claws and pouncing ability... Freddy with his chest cavity big enough to fit a small child. Like old times!

I swear the daycare attendant has infrared vision and very possibly direct access to the cctv, but anyway. (I also swear freddy collapsing on stage and triggering the safety protocol after hours was the only thing keeping him from joining, even leading the pack of machines to comb the place and take Gregory down to the scooper by trick or by stick, and Gregory almost made a fatal decision when he hid in the chest cavity. No freddy has ever been nice after hours, and there's no reason given why this one is.)

Back to the DA, it gives the implications of their old power core (freddys original upgrade and heavily theorised to have previously belonged to the only 'tronic out during the hourly recharge) a whole new meaning. Perhaps the setting of the daycare and all that happy sugar high children energy making happy memories was a perfect environment for a low level (experimental? Inefficient?) sort of... Emotional photosynthesis? It would explain why one half is the daycare and the other is the security patrol. Food for thought. Obviously freddy isn't able to receive all those benefits for a number of reasons.

(And it might explain the poor treatment of the DA, too, if the core was removed for some reason, and why sun is struggling so hard to keep his hopes up if it can no longer absorb and process literal happiness vibes for the best haunting ever. Poor guy always gets the short end of the stick. Maybe it also explains why the DA is the only animatronic to glow... because of the remnant metal? The extra juice they were supposed to have?)

Yeah, but what about ruin? How does it fit into this?

Well, for one, the new scooper. It's the literal gathering tool and storage place for all this remnant, so it's presumably pretty vital. Afton is parked directly above it in a recharge pod, sucking up all that sweet sweet juice. He's literally drinking children's tears, the monster.

And the mimic. Because there's a second part to remnant that only becomes relevant now. It's the worst and strongest emotion that can only be created through immense pain and suffering. 'Agony'. A black sludge of distilled horrors. And the thing is, it's highly infectious. But agony is useless. Unless it's combined with remnant in a specific way, and the resulting reaction is extremely powerful and dangerous.

The mimic is infected with agony. And it's found itself probably the biggest source of remnant in the world. The battery of (potentially) the whole pizza plex, and every animatronic inside it. (Moon may well have been the first infected... If the patrol animatronic encountered the mimic on its arrival. Ooh, now there's a thought. It's more likely it saw and tried to stop vanny from some unethical activity (it's a purely robot job!) And she... Prevented it from becoming a recurring issue with the glitch code. Ah, but there's no proof.)

Either all that remnant is now corrupted, or converted. My money is not on converted because the mimic is not spreading a plague of suffering across the land, and is instead trying to lure kids in again to replenish the remnant. And the poor animatronics are still clinging to blackened, crippled life.

It certainly would explain why the company just dropped the entire location without either bulldozing it to the ground or trying to scavenge and repair. With the animatronics infected with agony, it's far too dangerous to do either, and of course officials absolutely cannot find out.

TLDR: I think the missing puzzle piece is 'Remnant' to explain aftons presence, the strangely alive animatronics, the point of all those child disappearances Gregory was supposed to be investigating, the scooper, the mimic, vannys actual job as head enabler for afton, the animatronic's violent upgrades, the true goal of the pizza plex and why it was built over the sinkhole, but most importantly... how they're footing that electricity bill.

But hey ;D! That's just a theory!

[fatehbaz]

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[leave-thebirds-untroubled]

the other three monkees using poor mike and his big hands as a stim toy.

in the episode where micky does his werewolf impression mike just offers up his hand to be chewed in a way that makes me think that this happens often, and micky will sometimes ask to just chew on Mike’s hand as long as he promises to be “be gentle”

I think Davy does this too, but he doesn’t ask, he just sometimes grabs and starts biting because he’s a feral animal when he’s comfortable at home and Mike has to talk to him about that.

Overall I think Davy’s a little rough with Mike because he’s a selfish little thing that they spoil the hell out of, and unlike micky who sometimes just goes buck wild but feels bad about it, Davy just’ll grab Mike’s hands and start doing things like grabbing his fingers and straightening them and making him clap and shit with no shame because he just sometimes needs to take his toddler-energy out on something and Mike just sits there and lets it happen (i promise he lets davy know if it’s too much and Davy will listen) Davy has no shame when they’re at home and he doesn’t have a girl over or something and Mike lets him just do what he needs to do because it lets davy let loose a bit.

Peter plays with Mike’s hands but he’s more gentle than Davy, and he doesn’t bite though sometimes he’ll put Mike’s hand up and press it against his mouth because it feels good. He’s just overall more gentle about it and because Mike feels safe and comfortable.

sometimes Mike has peter and Davy both at once playing with his hands (micky’s a bit embarrassed that he sometimes needs to let out his energy on Mike so he tries to really only fiddle with Mike’s hands when he’s in hyper mode or stressed out) and the duality of energy is funny.

all of this happens when they’re sitting on the couch and Mike just has his personal time taken up with his three monkee kiddos.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Honestly, putting my Technology Connections-esk amber turn signal rant aside, I think amber turn signals look better, too.

Like, the reason that's often sited for why North American automakers use red turn signals (sometimes), is because they "look better?"

I don't really get that. Because, imo, a red turn signal looks cheap. It looks very cheap. Like, "sorryyyyy, we couldn't afford two different colors of plastic, so we cost cut that," cheap.

So why luxury automakers like Audi and Tesla continue to use them is beyond me. An amber turn signal is way sexier, imo. It exudes attention-to-detail and quality.

[blunderpuff]

ranked choice voting but it's Subway:

[evilroachindustrial]

Just an all-around bad publicity day for the folks at Turo.

[zugmode]

i’ve had an itch to make a video essay (?????) for like three months now (i have never made a video in my life). and if school wasn’t starting on monday i would literally take time to write and create one. i feel like id be good at it. i think id turn it into art.

[velichorus-k]

Ramon angrily reciting the road safety psa <3

Probably my personal favourite part of the comic haha

[micamicster]

I just want to say, I started following bc I was in the trenches and obsessing over Stranger things but I stumbled upon your post about considering New York home and it’s really helped me understand how to love a big city. Whenever we find a new subway route or feel like something is familiar my friend group all call them our hallway/kitchen/wierd bathroom. This is not super well explained but I’m really grateful that I have the the chance to communicate to other transplants and myself that this is my house and these are all my roommates. Like every day I go out and see somewhere new and it feels scary but soon it’ll just be another part of my house, and I’ll see is how now I can point out new graffiti and get a discount at the Dominican lunch place Also it really does make it chill to go out looking awful lol.

I know exactly what post you're thinking of (although of course i cant find it now lol) but it was a very sincere post that i meant with all my heart! I love hearing that my rambling on here might have a positive impact on somebody or put words to a common experience... I'm so happy you're here and figuring out ways to love our big shared house (nyc) 💜💜💜

[rozecrest]

love this line... the hollow thunk when his head hits the ground. princes hollow corpses rotten and buzzing. death has been here!

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about the rescue that endangers the 118 being a camper van and how campervans suggest transience and impermanence- of constantly travelling and exploring and searching for something.

Something about it being ‘disabled’ - not broken down but disabled and how Buck hasn’t broken down, but has been disabled by his trauma.

Something something about Buck being highlighted as the one trying to save members of his found family (his brother and sister) and how Buck has been on a journey this season his search for something - for happiness.

Something something about Lev figuring it out in the rubble at the beginning of the season before dying and how Buck will figure it out in the rubble too - after he has died.

[moon-and-stars-selfship]

I'm convinced I have a piece of buttered toast for a phone. This is the second time I've dropped it and it lands perfectly face-down so that the case does nothing and it obliterates the screen.

[kollectorsrus]

[randompolykin]

funny how I hate war and fighting and think there are better ways to solve our problems but then I identify as a attack helicopter and a tank

[reanimatedgh0ul]

vlad to me is trans cis man in the sense that i can totally see the vision for him being a trans man outside of my own interpretation of canon but when it comes to my vision for all intents and purposes he has to be cis