• BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    This seems like such a wretched inevitably. I mean, I guess we’re living it with phones, but it seems so unnecessary with cars.

    Is there really no market for the same boring car, with minor efficiency tweaks, for, like, ever? I coulda lived with my 95’ Accord forever if the parts hadn’t been too expensive.

    Do es the market really not want that, or do the manufacturers prevent it from happening?

    Any Automancer please explain, I’m not car enough to understand.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      8 months ago

      Selling your data is a new revenue stream for automakers, and as a practical matter, you can’t avoid it.

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        8 months ago

        Even before data sales, though, a baseline, universal car never happened. Was there never a market or was a market never allowed to form?

        Or perhaps the tech in a car really does advance faster than I understand? But then how would retro cars be street legal?

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          8 months ago

          They aren’t as profitable as luxury cars. Ford stopped making sedans because their margins are so much larger on SUV’s and trucks. They keep eliminating the base trim model and making luxury versions the mew “standard” to keep making more and more money.

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      8 months ago

      My next question would be, does the Asian models have this same shit ?

      If not importing would be a nice alternative

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        8 months ago

        I mean, as someone else pointed out in a comment here, they literally have it in the terms that they can track your sexual activity…