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Are there any EV cars without any "technology"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by penquin@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Like the title says, are there any EVs that just have a Bluetooth radio and that's it? Like a normal car, not a smartphone on wheels? If not, do you all think that this will actually happen at some point? This is the main reason why I can't (and will never) buy an EV. I like to have actual buttons everywhere on my car. I think those massive tablets on these cars with all the touch buttons are very dangerous. I like an "entertainment system" that only connects to my phone with either a headphone jack ~~of~~ or Bluetooth. It's a car, not a PC.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 56 points 4 months ago (29 children)

I assumed from your title that you, like myself, are more concerned about the fact that EVs all seem to be "smart", and cloud connected, and effectively hardware as a service to spy on you, and prevent repairs, and have software lockouts of features.

Like TVs, I think there's no incentive for the companies with the ability to make dumb devices to actually make them. Adding all this functionality is unfortunately what people expect.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Are they're any evs built with OpenSource in mind? Like its honestly cool that you can more closely control how they drive because it electronically controlled but tech enshitification makes most the stuff I've seen always tainted by it.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Tesla is built on top of Ubuntu with their own closed source spin. But yeah, that would be amazing if we had a completely FOSS system on some cars. I'd be willing to pay extra for it. Fuck, man. Shit is getting out of hands.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, they're closed-sourcing Ubuntu? Doesn't the GPL say that any fork or derivative of any GPL'd product has to have the GPL? It's supposed to propagate.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They were until they got in trouble a couple of years back for not contributing shit back. I think they have an "android" approach where they have their own shit running on top of Ubuntu now.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

That explains... some

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