cross-posted from: linux.community/post/2362831
I don’t know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.
I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don’t need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don’t need a movie theater on wheels.
Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That’s what I want.
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 days ago
yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-
OscarRobin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kia and Hyundai EVs tend to have physical controls for most things
frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But how much are they tracking you?
Aux@feddit.uk 2 days ago
What’s a PRNDL?
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low (gear). The 5 “standard” positions the standard shifter levers could be set to. Versus the weird stuff like dials or push-buttons that are incredibly hard to operate by muscle-memory if you aren’t looking right at them.
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 day ago
youtu.be/OFDy9pGTtjE
This is forever burned into my head. I’ve not really watched that series and I remember nothing else. Just PRNDL.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.