A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

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    5 months ago

    Both volume and ac can be done without even reaching over, you have buttons on the steering wheel for that.

    The buttonless glove box allows for setting a pin to open it, and you don’t need to “dive” through menus, it’s on the main screen, on a voice command, or again, as a button on the steering wheel.

    There’s much more obvious things to criticize, like the removal of the stalks, especially for blinkers, or the ultrasonic sensors, especially without a front camera.

    And BMW subscription would save people money, but people panicked and now it’s back as an almost 1000 bucks option instead of a 7 bucks a month “subscription” that you need 3 months of the year in most countries. And they never even removed the option of buying it outright…

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      If we don’t fight all the subscriptions, eventually everything will be a subscription.

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      The BMW thing wasn’t a panic. It was being incensed at being locked out of the hardware that comes with the car and putting it behind a paywall. If you can’t see how ridiculous that is I’m not sure what to tell you.

      Maybe just build it into the car and give people free heated seats. They’re not really luxury anymore.

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        If putting the hardware in makes the assembly line simpler and the car is 2000 euros cheaper but you want to pay more just to remove the hardware, I don’t know what to tell you.

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        All of them (except the cybertruck, maybe?). I mean one on grill level, to see what’s in front of you below the hood level. They do have one behind the rear view mirror, but that one doesn’t see shit when parking (and you can’t show it on the screen).