The cars are cool, the solar energy stuff is cool, the space stuff is cool, the other stuff, well, maybe not so much.
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No car should need firmware upgrades. An electric car shouldn't even need firmware. Whole point of ECU is complexity of efficient burning of fossil fuel. Electric is trivial.
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I've always understood it as a nerd car for early-adopting enthusiasts rather than a real product, which is fine. I'm not in that niche myself for cars, but I am in other areas, so I don't begrudge it.
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Even if it weren't it needs firmware. You can't manage the dangerous batteries without some kind of firmware, and then at that point, and since people want the same old the, firmware handles that: lane assist, cruise control, automatic breaking, abs, airbags, crash sensors.
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Lane assist (or any way a computer can interfere with steering) is an extreme antifeature in my book. Auto braking and cruise control maybe nice but certainly not standard expectation. ABS is antifeature but mandatory now. Airbags certainly desirable.
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I agree with lane assist, I've never liked it. As far as autobreaking and and cruise, they are pretty standard now on new cars, the former is particularly useful, I don't use the latter that much unless long distance. Depends on time of year for ABS when it's me.
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The typo is very fitting for IoT cars. ;-)
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Autobraking is probably awesome if you're distracted and about to hit someone, but seems awful if it false+'s and gets you rear-ended or inhibits your ability to steer and accelerate out of a collision situation.
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I've been in a situation where I was about to hit one car if not for quick maneuvering *and* about to get hit bad by another if I'd stopped instead or moved too slowly.
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