Comment on BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is a warning sign: we were promised a transport revolution, instead we got cars tracking us and serving us ads

anonymouspl@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Overspark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This has nothing to do with cars being electric, the ad was shown on modern ICE BMW’s too.

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  • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yep, stupidity is applied to all cars.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I want cars with buttons and knobs

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  • anonymouspl@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I fully get that. I personally can accept well designed screens but I know I am in the minority.

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still need to look at it to hit the target.

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• borkborkbork@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  looking forward to the slate - no garbage, just ev truck.

  shame it’s a bezos startup tho.

  Telo may be awesome too if it survives.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do you know if Telo has telemetry? Can’t find info on that anywhere.

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    • borkborkbork@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I do not. If they get gobbled up, it’ll have it for sure, but so far it’s a tiny company so….?

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    • SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In their discord one of their engineers has mentioned opt in for vehicle lifecycle telemetry (battery health, temp, draw, charge cycles, specifically said that location and even speed would be completely useless for them). Whether that means they won’t collect it, or can’t collect it I’m not 100% sure.

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      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Connectivity and telemetry starts off about improving the product and ends up with subscription features and selling your behaviour.

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      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s disappointing to hear. I hope there’s an easy way to reversibly disconnect the data antenna while keeping every other service intact. It really sucks being constantly aware that anything you say in your own car’s cabin may no longer be private.

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  • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Slate would be perfect for my current needs. Less than 25km a day, trips to buy wood for my shitty woodworking, etc. Its slated (sorry…) for 2027. Stuff too big or too far to use my bike for safely. It’s not my time.

    So here in the land of geese and syrup we’ve got giant American earth destroyers or the tiny Japanese utility trucks. In between would be awesome. The Chinese EV’s with some Pickups are coming and, although the monitoring and data capture bothers me, somehow it feels the lesser of two evils compared to legacy makers with this pay to play and forced ad combination. Is that an accurate assessment?

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• doleo@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are cars. There’s your downside.

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