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Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? (www.carsandhorsepower.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Changelin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has wheels so the computer doesn't touch the ground you know.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Yes, but why? Are they in place to protect the spinning rust when you hard drive the car? Or has it something to do with cracked Windows and a missing driver?

I'm always being extra careful around those computers on wheels, since most of them have a built-in backdoor!

Fuel for thought...