Are Cars Just Smartphones on Wheels? The Driving Soul Debate
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Cars are evolving into “smartphones on wheels” with apps, updates, and subscriptions. But are we sacrificing the soul of driving for digital convenience?

For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

  • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    34 minutes ago

    I don’t currently drive since I live in a city with great public transit but if i was forced to get a car it wouldn’t be made after 2006. I like buttons and don’t want to spend $400 replacing my rear view mirror because its linked to my touch screen for no damn reason

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Don’t forget the transformation from a 5 buck bulb to a 1000 buck complete LED-system. Yay!

    • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      But you will spend 1500 bucks replacing everything else on the car.

      Also cars have plenty of buttons.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        $1500 put into a 2003 Honda Accord is COMPLETELY different than putting that into a 2016.

        And I want ALL buttons. No touch screen AT All

        • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
          25·
          2 hours ago

          1500 put into a 2003 Honda Accord is COMPLETELY different than putting that into a 2016.

          Yeah you will do it every six months.

          • Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
            31·
            1 hour ago

            So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…

            …more, actually.