Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
skaffi@infosec.pub 12 hours agoIndeed. It’s probably more that increasingly more commodities are becoming “smart”, including, but not limited to EVs. I think the reason people are specifically noticing or talking about the “ensmartification” of EVs is because cars are so vastly much more expensive than any other “smart” commodity that, and for most people, an investment of that size needs to be something you can either rely on working for X number of years, or at the very least insure yourself against that happening. But a gadget that can be turned hostile to you, at the drop of a single auto-update, is anything but reliable or dependable - and to my knowledge, becoming enshittified represents a “special” kind of broken, that you can’t insure yourself against.
noxypaws@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Again. None of this is unique to EVs. Cars with internal combustion engines are at least equally as enshittified. At LEAST.