In fairness, those services you’re used to paying for can at least justify themselves by being software features that require a server infrastructure, security updates, and interaction with third-party services that rely on it maintaining up-to-date APIs and configurations. An argument can be made that it’s reasonable…

I *might* be able to accept an argument for subscriptions to features the item already has hardware for IF said features rely on advanced software that requires regular updates and interconnectivity with outside services. One reason more and more software has to be constantly updated is because everything is…

Met my son’s new teachers as he goes into high school in the fall, and his English teacher is heavily tattooed, and I was pretty psyched about seeing that. I think it’s both progress, and also a sign of the reality what generation is taking over. A lot of talented, passionate, qualified people are going to have…

I mean, when your company isn’t called DMC and you have no rights to that name, it’s a LITTLE hard to put that on your car legally.

Okay, but who’s going to guard the ear of corn?

500 is quirky and adorable which is why I excitedly picked it when I had to rent something. Such a huge disappointment. Everything from awful performance and handling to a sun visor that was so tiny it covered about two inches of the side window.

I’m sure the Abarth is better, but I rented a Fiat 500 and wanted to return it within a few miles. Awful, awful car. Spark was way better for its class.

Seriously, I was hoping someone would start this thread so I didn’t have to. In one of the photos I could *almost* make out the color of the car. The photography was atrocious. I’d LOVE a nice green on a car, but I have no clue from this article if it’s this. I have to take it at his word that the car was green.

Is the quote’s spelling of Guy Bennett-Pearce wrong and you didn’t add a [sic] or is your regular misspelling wrong?

Wait, we were? I don’t remember that. I remember a massive supply chain issue due to gigantic assholes hording things. And I remember being generally grateful that truckers were continuing to do their jobs. But I don’t remember thinking how heroic these truckers were for holding up major cities and streets and…

I have a Fiesta. I’d happily get something else in its size as my next car if it existed. Especially if I could get a better class version of it. Instead I’ll be forced to go larger, regardless of my interests.

This. I own a Fiesta. I can park it almost anywhere. I can turn tightly almost anywhere. It’s simple and small and nimble and manageable and I’d LOVE to be able to buy something upmarket of it that was similarly-sized. But instead I can’t even buy another one of it now that I’m looking at my next vehicle, much less a…

This was absolutely my game at the time. I loved the feel so much, the style, and that intro movie I could watch over and over again. Few games ever reached me as strongly. I did try so hard to locate that JogCon controller for it, but never could track it down at the time.

There was a time I thought a Tesla was inevitable as my first/main electric vehicle, especially due to their charging network. Now I’d be hard-pressed to consider one.

My boss just bought a used Model Y and had to jump through hoops to find the precise time range that had the functions he wanted before they were removed. It’s as crazy as you’re saying.

It’s definitely PR, but it’s one of those nice situations where PR also results in the right thing being done. This comes up in politics a lot where people complain about X politician only helping people to look good. The implied alternative is the more honest route is to... not help them? I’d rather a politician do…

Considering no other automaker felt that was necessary, it seems like a copout. Theoretically, at least, Apple and Google design their systems so the vehicle doesn’t NEED updates to be compatible. If it’s actually true though that it does need updates to unlock access to new functions, charge for them then. And only…

If paying a subscription for, say, aspects of the infotainment system means a car company finally keeps it up to date so it meets current technology standards and functionality, is kept secure, continues to be compatible with the latest apps I need and phones I buy, etc., instead of becoming obsolete within a year or…

This is EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw this. Also, hi. I played Colin, his counterpart in the pilot.

This aligns very well with my general experiences with the companies and their level of effort in their job, which correlates with my life experience of the difference in commitment between people who feel respected and appropriately compensated by their employer and those who don’t. FedEx is MASSIVELY more likely…