- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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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They apparently want you to do anything except pay attention to the fucking road.
When i can take a car on the bus and use it to listen to mp3s or play games or read ebooks while I travel, and I can get a decent used one for £50 and have a few quid a month operating costs; then maybe I’ll think about replacing my phone with a car. Until then, a car is nothing like a phone.
“For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery.”
Fuck that bullshit - I think whatever poor soul wrote that must’ve never seen a train.
Cars are among the grossest form of unsustainable privilege. They’re not becoming giant smartphones. They’re already giant cages with two sofas, HVAC, tons of metal, rubber, chemicals, etc. It already has a stereo system, so why not a computer and monitor?
Cars are not “becoming smart phones”. They’re just becoming even more unsustainable and absurd.
They certainly are becoming more like smart phones in that they monitor everything you do and report home to sell that data to any agency that wants to pay for it. With a lot of the high-tech cars requiring a mobile app to interface with the car, it’s as pervasive as Facebook, etc. So much better than just getting on a bus, though! Right?
I think they are more akin to living rooms on wheels.
