Technology

lol

I used to work with big companies collecting IoT data. 90% were collecting telemetry without knowing why. Or having business goals they could easily achieve in other ways, without hoovering everything and violating our privacy.

The rest were doing it so they could sell it to data brokers and make money.

None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.

It's so weird how not a single person here can just say "cool, this is good".

Sometimes things can just be good.

The thing the vast majority doesn't care about and that doesn't prevent them from buying cars and that you'll have to live with unless you just keep driving your old car forever?

Nah I'm sure that carmakers being forced to do this only factored in a little bit.

I’ve been assured that tHe MaRkEt will solve everything, though!

Would be hilarious if they recalled them and superglued buttons over the touchscreen interface.

I'd settle for reasonable ports

Bring back the Blackberry.

They are grat for things that benwfit from havibg flexible touch anywhere interaction like maps.

They suck for anything you want to touch without looking away from the road, like temp controls.

Honda still including buttons and knobs for climate controls was a huge factor for my last purchase. A few brands were instantly rejected because they had climate controls in the touch screen and I had already hated that experience from rentals and my in law's cars.

Step 1: put in touchscreens Step 2: touchscreens good because = smart Step 3: ... Step 4: Profit?

Swipe left to go left. Swipe right to go right. Pinch to accelerate. Say in a clear voice "Please begin braking" to decelerate.

Someone has died due to a touchscreen. A woman had a Tesla which you put in park forwards or reverse with a touchscreen. She’d always had trouble with it and got it wrong and reversed into a pond. That meant the power went out so she couldn’t open that door. To get to the emergency escape handle you have to remove the speakers in the doors. So she drowned.

The kicker? Her husband was a millionaire and he immediately put out a statement absolving Tesla and musk from any wrongdoing.

No it's the only reason they are coming back, if they cared they wouldn't have got ridden of the buttons in the first place

The power consumption of a tablet is next to nothing compared to the power it takes to move an EV.

The screen consumes orders of magnitude less energy than what it takes to move the car. It's not even worth taking into account.

Most of them, probably. It's a new requirement in EU to get 5/5 stars safety rating.

That's also why it's specifically 5 features - that's the bare minimum.