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Not the person you’re replying to, but “technology platform” as a way of referring to a car grosses me out, personally.

Its a car. It should take me places. The technology in it, should be technology that takes me places safely, and that’s it. Calling it a technology platform frames it like a car is a consumer electronics device, and consumer electronics are generally user hostile feature bloated unrepairable nightmares 😅

Still sounds like a pretty well made car though. I’m not surprised china has very capable manufacturers.

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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sounds like…all these internet car reviewers are wankers because they never discuss reliability, they just count cup holders. I don’t give a fuck about how elegantly it is designed, will it break, and can it be fixed.

Australia’s conclusions about these EVs are yes, and no.

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- Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  While that is true and it should be discussed, it is often difficult to assess a new product’s reliability unless there’s a clear existing track record from the company
  
  But a company’s track record and the repairability of the car should absolutely be discussed in reviews
  
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- AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But that would take longer and they need to get those views now so they can move onto the next thing.
  
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CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You sound a lot like Gen x and boomers on the cell phone 🤷‍♂️

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- paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Get back to us when your health insurance company kicks you off your plan because your car has been reporting that you’ve been going to the bar 4 nights a week.
  
  Or when your wife starts getting ads when connected to your home network for strippers and strip clubs because you parked the car near a strip club 1 time.
  
  Or when your car starts suspiciously routing you through weird routes on maps, that take you close to the local fast food joints because Taco Bell/KFC paid them advertising money.
  
  “But none of that happens right now!”
  
  That’s not the point. The point is, it could.
  
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  - SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You think Tim Apple doesn’t know how many times you jerk off or take a shit? Data privacy ended a decade ago.
    
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    paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But for some reason you’d like to take it further. How odd.
    
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    CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    He does. And it hasn’t impacted me in the least bit. The worst thing that might have ever happened to me is my wife gets an ad for shit I’ve searched. So is certainly not without any downsides. But they are largely outweighed by the good for most people’s use case. Most people shouldn’t and don’t give a fuck about the data tech has on them. What they should be concerned about is the government having data and a sane legal process for obtaining that data.
    
    Cars with integrated tech are safer (assuming folks are going to cell phone either way, of course it would be better to actually ticket those folks but I digress) and improve the experience on a daily basis.
    
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  - CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh right, because that happened with your computer that’s already following you for the past 15 years. I’ve met hundreds of people losing health insurance from the secret apps installed on phones and computers.
    
    Y’all have to invent edge cases to make this stuff sound scary. Google has had the vast majority of everyone’s movement for the past 15 years. Every day, every meter.
    
    Sure there are downsides that people don’t like but the vast majority of users don’t care and aren’t highly impacted.
    
    The reality is folks want tech in their vehicles. They want it to integrate with their phones natively.
    
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    paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You ever watch scifi stuff and its kinda far fetched? Its because they’re envioning a future that hasn’t happened yet. Its not an ‘edge case’ you just haven’t been affected by it yet.
    
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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, I get that. I’m aligned, although it’s an automotive industry CEO. I suspect any industry insider uses similar terminology, and it probably doesn’t even have the same connotations we have outside. E.g. I think I remember hearing someone refer to the Mitsubishi 3000GT using the same “platform” as the Dodge Stealth way back in the mid-90’s.

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