Here’s hoping for hobbyist industries to offer alternative electrics. We don’t need a bunch of complex systems to tell electric motors to go or stop.

Pretty important reason to not switch to electric if you ask me.

Likely to render the vehicle inoperable until fixed. Electric vehicles seem particularly vulnerable to service denial for any reason a company or government might decide.

Can I get an electric vehicle without giving up my privacy or autonomy?

It ain’t weird if you’ve been paying any attention to how nation states compete, over the years.

If modern cars weren’t filled with tracking and surveillance equipment that empowers a foreign, not so friendly, state, then it wouldn’t be such a concern.

Substituting your own information syntheses, memory and deduction Willa trophy this faculties, leading to people who can’t think. Everything their mind needs to complete thought, particularly complex thoughts, connect to an external device. Their thoughts will resemble Swiss cheese, partial ideas with numerous large gaps.

We’re both on a Lemmy instance, neither of us represent our generations.

Well now I’m getting conflicting messages. I’m gonna have to do my own untrained research on this with my friend Grok. We’ll figure out whats what.

It isn’t that weird. Users have a very low tolerance for independence, especially as tech markets itself to less and less tech savvy userbases(like Gen alpha and z). They do what their screens tell them to for the most part.

K but what’s the real reason they stopped it?

Not really. The whole point is that they only feel uncomfortable when they can see it, so they fight to ensure it can’t be seen, not for it to not exist. The public are a disappointment clump of morons who constantly fuck over our collective futures.

How much violence now exists in prisons?

Thinking is hard and ppl would prefer to feel, instead. When you just have to vibe with your AI that thinks for you, ppl will absolutely use it and disempower themselves under the illusion of empowerment. They will infantilize themselves and end up being treated like the children they want to be.

Yeah but sunglasses make it very visible so people can’t pretend it doesn’t exist and have to confront how it feels to experience living in a surveillance state. They don’t like that.