Oddbean new post about login | logout I really hope that we someday see some real competitors rise up so that we don't all have to intentionally allow ourselves to be screwed over by these car manufacturers. I don't need a smart car. I just want a regular car. All I need it to do is to allow me to get from one place to another. I don't need it up to have all of these other features built in. If I want that, I can build something for myself.
It will never happen. Once things get tech, they never go back. Automated driving is more likely than a reversal to a dumb car.
3D printed cars when? 😁
i disagree, some things were just dumb ideas... i think that self driving cars is going to be a collossal disaster once something bad happens the game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided contains a story involving this happening with cybernetic augmentations and then a critical component common to all of the implants is hacked and millions of people are killed by cybernetic implants gone mad
That happened in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Mankind Divided was the sequel.
Sadly true. Try finding a non-smart TV these days.
easiest solution is to just get the oldest car you can and if that's still shit move somewhere you can get an older one that isn't shit very often just being in a city makes all of that harder, out in the country they just don't have the resources to police that shit as much
That works for now, but I'm talking about decades from now when old cars are just not able to be repaired anymore. In that case, we really don't have any other option. It's either, use a "smart car" or use public transportation. Both play right into the hands of the whole 15-minute cities crap.
i'm not living in a city with "smart" anything or "15 minute" or pods they can come and try and get me out in the middle of nowhere i can assure you, they won't waste their time with us "proles" we just have to stay out of their way also i don't think their system has got more than 15 years left in it, mainly because by then likely half the satellite grid gets knocked out by a micronova
also, classics tend to stay in good supply of spares for decades... the Lada Niva is like 40 years old and you can still find old ones around because they were so durable and practical... even they are still in use, like the bulgarian police still have a few at least they did a couple years ago
Cubians have been keeping their cars on the road for a long time. Haven't been able to import any since the 50's.
A lot of the "developments" are driven by governments senseless regulations, especially in the EU.
The regulations seems senseless to us, but they make perfect sense if you look at them in a sense of control.
I want to overthrow the federal government so that we can have cool cars again.