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Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
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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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The sad thing is 'smartphone on wheels' is a slur.

Smartphones don't have to be soulless and uniform and enshittified and subscription based and completely inaccessible and straight up anti-consumer/designed to fail, but here we are.

I really hope Slate takes off though (and they make a nimble hatchback for their next chassis). It feels like the antithesis of all this.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Kind of disappointing Bezos is involved though.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Backed, not owned though, and not alone:

https://slaterides.com/slate-auto-investors/

I view it as a net positive if Amazon wants them for EV delivery. A substantial guaranteed commercial customer is huge, and Slate isn't exactly into dystopian tracking electronics or anything.

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The simplicity of the Slate interior is fantastic. They developed a screenless touch screen that you can rotate without even looking at them. I wish I were in the market for this type of vehicle.

Interior photo

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, that is so perfect.

Imagine a sedan or hatchback. It would be light as a feather (in terms of curb weight) and still feel spacious being so 'clean' inside.