• GNU Dude@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Tesla’s reasoning for going away with a method universally used for signaling turn for decades is that it enables them to remove a physical part, the stalk, and it believes activating a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving.

    Why the hell do billionaires keep laughing in our faces? I swear every time one of them or their companies opens their mouth, it’s like they’re making fun of us, the poor people.

    “We care about your privacy” — (they don’t) “a turn signal will soon be unnecessary” etc.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      it believes activating a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving.

      Okay, but self driving hasn’t happened yet and still faces significant problems. Removing a turn signal for this is like smoking constantly because you think cancer will be cured in the future.

      Plus it breaks one of the unspoken rules of new designs. You never take away functionality, you only add it.

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      11 months ago

      And worse is that people have been complaining about the lack of buttons and knobs for some time already.

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      11 months ago

      a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving

      That’s like not including a stick for the manual transmission, because the automatic one is just around the corner.

      I wish I possessed this kind of optimism in my daily life :D