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Sure, people want simple, but simple is very subjective. I want simple, +Bluetooth Audio I want simple, +rear Camera I want simple, +Cruise Control I want s

• Spivak 5y ago
  It's really not that subjective. Take the feature set of mass-market cars from 2000 - 2008 and then just ... stop. That's your baseline. There's nothing magic about the 2000s it's just happens to be the era juuuust before people started complaining about smart features in cars. * Media controls are handled by swappble receivers that can handle anything from tapes to Bluetooth and satellite radio depending on your preference. Everything else is physical nobs and buttons. * Cars have cruise control, hydraulic power steering, probably power windows, push to start as an aftermarket add-on, and probably remote lock/unlock. Broke teenagers in the early 2000s were able to figure out "basic car with add-ons." It's amazing that huge corporations can't manage.
  • deltree7 5y ago
    It's like you completely missed the point of Joel's blog
    • Spivak 5y ago
      No I just disagree that it applies here. Because these mass-market cars really existed (you can still buy most of them) — they all had basically the same feature sets, the same options packages by different names, sold like hotcakes, and nobody complained about bloat. In the car market you actually can get 80% of the sales with 80% of the features in defiance of Joel. That’s Honda and Toyota’s bread and butter.