Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 2 months agoClosest in the united States is a chevy bolt, but that’s still pretty far.
I’d love a fairly dumb ev. Give me just enough computer for battery/charging management and let me do the rest.
deus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a shame that’s not the default because while do find EVs interesting there’s no way I’m buying a car that may stop working after a failed software update. Did early EV manufacturers feel the need to put as many bleeding edge features as possible in their vehicles to make them more alluring? Cause I can’t imagine another reason to turn a car into a driveable smartphone.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The new EV only manufacturers often have a lot of tech bros involved. See, for example, how Elon Musk’s hatred for physical buttons led to even the glove box not having a physical latch to open it; you have to dive through menus on the center console to open the glove box.
Unfortunately even the legacy manufacturers are following the tech bros’ lead on this. Most new cars (even non-electric cars) are replacing physical buttons and knobs with touch-sensitive buttons or settings controlled only by screens or voice control. I hate it! I want to be able to reach over and adjust the volume or air conditioner without having to look at what my hand’s doing instead of looking at the road. To me these decisions are being made by people who don’t actually spend a lot of time driving their cars.
Of course, there’s also the part where manufacturers are licking their chops trying to add the sweet recurring revenue of subscription services to their hardware products, like BMW trying to make people pay a monthly fee to use heated seats in their car.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t forget GM rolling their own infotainment system that is tied into god knows what instead of allowing Android Auto and Car Play in a twofold decision to have shitty software and sell your driving habits for extra spending cash. That’s for all of their vehicles.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Selling your data doesn’t have anything to do with Android Auto or CarPlay. You can provide Android Auto and still sell your driving data just fine.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Both volume and ac can be done without even reaching over, you have buttons on the steering wheel for that.
The buttonless glove box allows for setting a pin to open it, and you don’t need to “dive” through menus, it’s on the main screen, on a voice command, or again, as a button on the steering wheel.
There’s much more obvious things to criticize, like the removal of the stalks, especially for blinkers, or the ultrasonic sensors, especially without a front camera.
And BMW subscription would save people money, but people panicked and now it’s back as an almost 1000 bucks option instead of a 7 bucks a month “subscription” that you need 3 months of the year in most countries. And they never even removed the option of buying it outright…
barsquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we don’t fight all the subscriptions, eventually everything will be a subscription.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The BMW thing was panic. It was being incensed at being locked out of the hardware that comes with the car and putting it behind a paywall. If you can’t see how ridiculous that is I’m not sure what to tell you.
Maybe just build it into the car and give people free heated seats. They’re not really luxury anymore.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Which Tesla has no front camera?
tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Once you have a microcontroller running things, adding new features is just a matter of software. Doesn’t add to the BOM, doesn’t complication production in any way. There’s almost no marginal cost to techify everything, and the people who don’t want those features can just not use them. The small minority of people who want a repairable car that they can understand and maintain in their own garage are undesirable customers who reduce after-market revenue.
moriquende@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While that may be your sentiment, it seems that for many people, especially in countries like China, having more smart features is a positive selling point.