cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/2362831

I don’t know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.

I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don’t need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don’t need a movie theater on wheels.

Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That’s what I want.

  • jasoman@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    One of the reasons is that in i think 2018, they made backup cameras mandatory.

    EDIT: 2018 NOT 2016

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’m unclear if you’re the reason Pika has an edit to their post, or if you just missed the fact that they said that. Although they said 2018, you said 2016.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I edited a few times within the first few minutes of posting it, so it’s also possible that it didn’t Federate the changes, but no I haven’t edited it since the first five ish minutes of the post