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I agree with what you're saying, but on a purely personal note, I just couldn't see myself enjoying an electric car - even knowing that a Tesla absolutely destr

I agree with what you're saying, but on a purely personal note, I just couldn't see myself enjoying an electric car - even knowing that a Tesla absolutely destroys anything I've ever driven performance wise (until the motors overheat or the batteries die). Few things in life compare to manually inserting a key, commanding the starter, hearing and feeling the (preferably V>=8) roar to life, and listening to the purrs and growls and roars of the steel steed that becomes an extension of yourself as you glide across pavement or dirt at inhuman speeds. Not everyone appreciates it - and that's totally OK! But a part of me will die the day they inevitably ban manually driven cars and/or internal combustion engines. ICE vehicles really do have characteristics that subjectively make them feel like living, fire breathing pets. Robots are cool and technically marvelous, but there will always be something irreplaceably special about a 2000-4000 pound device that has a soul.

mojuba 7y ago
Look, ICEs will eventually die unless a new type of fuel is found for them (none on the horizon so far). Which means the vibration of the car that's not even moving will go away for good, and we'll all probably forget about it. However, the manual part. Nobody said you should control the light bulbs in your house with your mobile phone, there are still physical switches which are alive and thriving. They are simple, they don't need a WiFi connection and don't require your email address and other personal data to control the lights. They just work. I don't believe much in the "software-ization" and IoT-zation of things around us, apart from some obviously useful cases like your home stereo that plays music from your phone. So on cars. I believe the industry or some part of it will take a step back from "software-ization" and simplify the vehicles a bit. There will be cars with (optional) physical keys, gauges and controls. There will be software that will help to make driving safer, which is undeniably important, but at the same time it will let you control the car the same way as the light switch on the wall. I see the demand for it and I just can't stop obsessively thinking about it. I wonder if there's anyone here reading this thinking along the same lines?

mojuba 7y ago

Look, ICEs will eventually die unless a new type of fuel is found for them (none on the horizon so far). Which means the vibration of the car that's not even moving will go away for good, and we'll all probably forget about it. However, the manual part. Nobody said you should control the light bulbs in your house with your mobile phone, there are still physical switches which are alive and thriving. They are simple, they don't need a WiFi connection and don't require your email address and other personal data to control the lights. They just work. I don't believe much in the "software-ization" and IoT-zation of things around us, apart from some obviously useful cases like your home stereo that plays music from your phone. So on cars. I believe the industry or some part of it will take a step back from "software-ization" and simplify the vehicles a bit. There will be cars with (optional) physical keys, gauges and controls. There will be software that will help to make driving safer, which is undeniably important, but at the same time it will let you control the car the same way as the light switch on the wall. I see the demand for it and I just can't stop obsessively thinking about it. I wonder if there's anyone here reading this thinking along the same lines?