Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.
Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.
Its all the worst parts of owning an EV.
Seriously, give me a mostly-dumb EV and I’m happy as a clam. The best parts of an EV are not the software (those are some of the worst).
But you can’t. You need something to properly modulate the brake bias. You need something to translate the throttle to the motor. You need something to control the abs, stability control, etc.
Then, for cost savings, you need 1-2 simple screens to display information.
Bespoke retro/analog EVs will exist but they won’t be cheap because size they won’t sell well.
Looks like a typo, so I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying, but I’m going to guess you’re implying that the public prefers smart devices to less smart devices.
I don’t know if that’s true, but my understanding is that smart devices tend to sell better because they’re discounted and have better hardware features, because companies want to make money on selling your data (viewing habits, installed apps, etc). But I would have to dig deeper to look for evidence.
And all of that is fine, and that’s what many cars do today. That’s not really what I or anyone else annoyed at.
Here’s what I don’t like:
Any of that should be opt-in, not a core part of the car. I don’t want to be locked into an ecosystem, limited in my ability to maintain and repair something I own, tracked, or forced to use their janky software. I want a vehicle that gets me from a to b, and the manufacturer shouldn’t know where a or b are, nor should they dictate what else I can do with the car.
A lot of “smart” devices are better off dumb.