• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    Doesn’t most of this stuffapply to basically all EVs?

    I have done zero research and I know these dealbreakers:

    • Microtransactions for a car (e.g. autopilot features, features already built-in, but subscription locked)
    • A tablet on the dashboard is a UX nightmare, since it can’t be used blindly (you should focus on the road, please).
    • The futuristic retracting doorhandles are a nightmare for firefighters, since you can’t easily pull people out of crashed Teslas.
    • The whole cybertruck debacle
    • Wasn’t the estimated reach that the car supposedly had explicitly programmed to overestimate?

    Edit: aparrently, the doors are very hard/mostly impossible to open when the power goes out.

    • lens17@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      I definitely do not want to defend Tesla here, but other manufacturers are unfortunately following the same path. It’s ridiculous. BMW is putting most of the extra features into the car on a technical level, but lock them down so you can’t use them unless you pay a fucking monthly subscription for e.g. the seat heaters. What the actual fuck has gotten into manufacturers?

      And the touchscreens? I’m soooo glad that the German equivalent to road and safety announced that the safety rating of cars will go down in the future if there are no haptic controls. I definitely like a sleek appearance, but form follows function for fucks sake.

      /rant