> giving me the current fuel and battery levels in the app When is this actually useful? In the ~12 years I’ve been driving, I’ve never needed to know the fuel

> giving me the current fuel and battery levels in the app When is this actually useful? In the ~12 years I’ve been driving, I’ve never needed to know the fuel level of a car when I’m not in it. I guess maybe if I’m planning a road trip and need to know if I’m going to have to stop for gas before I leave? But I’ll figure that out when I get in to leave and I’m probably not leaving with <10 minutes of margin. > locating my car Again, never once have I not known where my car was. I think my phone keeps track of where I park too already? But I’ve never needed that feature. I guess if it’s stolen and the thieves don’t know how to disable this, it could potentially be useful for insurance/police. > telling me about open windows, giving me the option to close them remotely This could be useful. I’ve never left windows open by accident before, but I have left them open on purpose - if there were an automatic notification when this happens, I’d probably just eventually turn it off to reduce the irritation from false positives, and then not be notified if I ever left them open by accident. > remote door un/locking I had a Lincoln that had this feature, while I was working as a reverse engineer/pentester. Took me ~45 minutes to be able to send an unlock request to the car, unauthenticated, and have it open the doors, over the internet. Pretty sure that’s never been fixed (at least, it hadn’t been when I got rid of the car - model year 2016, which was identical to the 2013s, and I got rid of it in 2022). Needless to say, not a fan of that kind of “feature.” I could see charging ETA being useful if multiple people are using the same car and for whatever reason can’t communicate that sort of thing with each other, and don’t have a feel for how long charging takes. (I’ve never owned an EV, but I imagine that you plug it in when you get home, and then it’s ready for you in the morning, so I don’t really know what the use case for knowing the ETA is in that case. Maybe if you’ve been driving around all day and need to make a long drive in the evening? I still assume you’d know how long it’ll take to charge when you plug it in though. And if you're at a fast charger, don’t they have a screen that gives you the ETA when you plug it in? I’ve only used one before, but it did that, and it was accurate to within 30 seconds, so I’m not too sure how useful it would be to have the ETA on your phone in that case either.)