• TheDoctor [they/them]
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    877 months ago

    As a programmer, watching the latest Some More News episode on the cyber truck broke my heart. All the support forum titles read like an old Linux forum. Its software bugs all the way down. I’m not a car person but between that and spending $2000 on sensors for my car that the car ran perfectly fine without (for inspection purposes), I’m beginning to think we’ve put too much sentient sand into these cars. Oh, and fuck the tendency to replace knobs with touch screens. Horrible design.

    • EatPotatoes [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      I love all the posts complaining about this and watching them result in nothing. Touchscreens will still be everywhere with as much built in surveillance eating cpu cycles so it’s every is super slow. Data is the last frontier and it’s a mad race to the bottom for the new feudal lords.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      427 months ago

      I’m gonna guess there was already a lot sentient sand in trains, planes, and cars, and good design principles to make sure it (almost) never fails and stuff like the entertainment system doesn’t break the whole vehicle. I’m gonna also guess Musk fired anyone with that sort of background because they said no to some harebrained idea.

      • skeletorsass [she/her]
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        Is this way. The train have separate system for control. Nothing may touch. Car is the same. Have only simple connection of entertainment to CAN bus. Only control basic thing. Can not touch driving.

        Plane use separate wire for every thing.

        For all three the safety critical software is formally verify.

      • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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        147 months ago

        Pretty much

        A lot of tech used in applications like vehicles are old. There’s a reason people complain all the time about slow and clunky infotainment systems in their cars, and that’s because the manufacturers go with older, more reliable, and less failure prone versions of various technologies

        It’s shit like Musk trying to stay on the bleeding edge that causes problems. When an eight year old version of Android crashes in your car, it’s going to crash in a way that’s predictable from the last eight years and thus easier to diagnose and fix. When an eight day old version of Tesla X OS or whatever the fuck he’d call it crashes, you bet your ass it’s gonna crash in spectacular new ways nobody knows how to fix

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        157 months ago

        I’m gonna also guess Musk fired anyone with that sort of background because they said no to some harebrained idea.

        there’s no way anyone like that survived the design phase of the cybertruck. anyone who wasn’t fired surely resigned.

    • And those damn capacitive buttons, give me a mechanical click!! I love that my car has mech buttons that can override the touch screen stuff, especially a volume knob that can pause audio.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      637 months ago

      Whenever I go shopping for appliances I tell the salesperson, “I want a dumb appliance, nothing smart, nothing that needs to connect to an app or wifi.”

    • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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      97 months ago

      Big fan of Mazda keeping a knob and buttons to interact with the infotainment and climate control, but I think they may be drifting towards tablets in their recent designs

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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        47 months ago

        Honda self corrected from what I’ve seen. Without some national standards on common controls it’s the fucking Wild West

  • @[email protected]
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    637 months ago

    Would you badmouth a car that has the potential to immolate you and make it look like an accident?

    • miz [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      I remember there was a reddit-logo post a few years ago from a disgruntled Tesla software engineer who went on for like ten pages about how kludged together everything was

  • LeZero [he/him]
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    557 months ago

    Frantically tapping my Tesla™ touchscreen as the Category 5 storm front inches closer and closer to me

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      337 months ago

      Between the “oops all doors locked” and the teslas propensity to catch fire there’s like a non-0% chance somebody in the hurricane is going to get boiled to death in his flooded car

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      257 months ago

      Novelty fart noise from an accidental stroke on the le epic all-in-one touchscreen just before it all ends.

      • Isopod_Activities [any, any]
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        137 months ago

        Land Rovers are excellent cars; They come with the check engine light already on out of the factory! You don’t get that kind of value anywhere else.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      757 months ago

      Mild banter troll: “Hey try blowing on it like we used to do with Nintendo games.”

      Tesla owner: “Fucking Asians and their rice!”

      Not even scratched, just lightly grazed, and this person gets racist real quick lololoool

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        247 months ago

        Tesla owner: “Fucking Asians and their rice!”

        Coming from Mayo-Americans that have a biological makeup that consists of~40% Hot Pockets.

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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        437 months ago

        The irony that they live in a place named after Naples, a place which has a culture renowned for eating rice in many forms.

        Stupid fucking Americans