• leadore@lemmy.world
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    Imagine pulling up to a red light, checking your GPS for directions, and suddenly, the entire screen is hijacked by an ad. That’s the reality for some Stellantis owners. Instead of seamless functionality, drivers are now forced to manually close out of ads just to access basic vehicle functions.

    Oh HELLLLL no. I hope my 2012 Subaru will last until I’m either dead or too old to drive. I don’t even want to have these damn screens for the usual shit you have to do on them. I want to be able to do everything with physical controls, no eavesdropping, and no dependence on a fucking app or touchscreen to operate anything in my car! I will drive my car while wearing mittens! shakes fist

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    Maybe we just throw an ad on the windshield… Like a little one… Off to the side?

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    This is why you need government. This is why you need regulations.

    Corporations are evil pieces of shit that would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.

    They’d grind you and your entire family into a powder if it made them a few bucks.

    Fuck Jeep and their shitty tin cars.

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      8 hours ago

      This is why we need government that isn’t in the pocket of corporations.

      We need something like lawmakers having to disclose their tax information annually. If you want to be in office and make millions you should be willing to put your morals on the review table.

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      they would have you watch ads without seatbelts and without air bags.

      No, they would require you purchase these because their business can’t sell their products without them, but they’d make you pay a subscription for them to keep working, and when you stop paying the subscription, the car stops turning on until you pay your monthly airbag and seatbelt fee.

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    This is why used cars are so dang expensive, it seems like automobile quality has been in a free fall since 2008. The end user experience gets worse while the price goes up.

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      Early 2000s jap cars are unkillable, surplus of parts, and are not tracker spyware nests. Great little things for sure. My 90s turboed volvo is a far more temperamental beast, but I cherish her quirks :)

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        Right now my car is an 84. With a back up 86 truck. I used to have a 2011 subaru, but hit an prairie antelope with it. If I had my pick I think 1990-2008 Japanese cars are the sweet spot.

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        That’s newer then I would go but yeah at least Honda seems to be behind on the complete shit curve.

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    10 hours ago

    They really do take 80s and 90s dystopian movies as inspiration. Almost funny how ridiculous unimaginatively evil that are.

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    Roku was experimenting with similar stuff so I refuse to connect my Roku tv to WiFi. Will never update it

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      Ya, they’ve been getting bad press for a while now. Will never own one of those.

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        The TVs aren’t a bad value. Gotta get back the the jailbreaking days. If someone released a custom firmware for my Roku tv that made it dumb I would use it.

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      No, it’s considered distracted stopping. /s

      Same damn diffence in my book, fuck Jeep for that shit!

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    15 hours ago

    “You almost ran over a five year old with your oversized vehicle, thanks for breaking! This segment is brought to you thanks to BetterHelp…”

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      or better yet “You just ran over a single mother while missing her child! this segment brought to you by BetterHelp, you’re gonna need it!”

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      9 hours ago

      I wonder how hard it would be to make an open source car brain that can be a drop-in replacement for the commercial ones?

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        Hard, even stuff from 10 years ago have proaitary hardware across multiple “brains”.