hateselfdriving

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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
The bank loans are a fair point; insurance likely wouldn't insure them either. The CyberTruck, as a notable example. I will say it _can_ be difficult to keep up though, you don't necessarily find out a particular model is a lemon
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
The _average_ person drives just fine. It's specifically the idiots who either should never have been allowed to pass a driver's test in the first place (i.e. lack the motor skills and/ or mental capacity) and the idiots who
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
I am also very suspect of the origins of some of these regulations as well. Modern airbags are wonderful, don't get me wrong, but it's not unreasonable to question, in the US at least, whether auto manufacturers and their lobbyist
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
3) The "smarter"/ more unnecessarily complex the vehicle, the easier it becomes to enact planned obsolescence, forcing you to forever buy a new vehicle every 5-7 years, if not more frequent. 4) The "smarter" the veh
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
I've been keeping an eye on Slate lately. They _supposedly_ will be selling their trucks for sub $30k late 2026. Presumably they will meet every modern safety standard.
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
Have you ever stopped to think _why_ cars specifically are so expensive? The manufacturers need to put on a fake show to the market and consumers and pretend they are innovating with new "features" every year. But in reality they
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
I'm 31 and I'm very excited by the '86 Chevy truck I just got. You know why? It's _not_ "smart". The smartest thing on it is the old-school AM/FM radio. There's no software updates, there's nothi
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by hateselfdriving 10mo ago
Funny, I have another 30-40 years before I'm "dying off or moving to assisted living". Yet, because I work in software engineering and cybersecurity, you'll have to rip my human-driven cars out of my dead hands before I