GM puts an e-commerce marketplace in the dashboard
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#2i.e. You don't own your car. GM owns ad space inside your car.
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#3Sadly it is becoming difficult to get a nice car without all these extra(and unwanted) features....
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#4In my province there are now more traffic deaths related to distracted driving than impaired driving, and yet new cars are featuring ever more and more ways to distract the driver.
Is it time for government regulators to step in?
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#5i.e. You don't own your car. GM owns ad space inside your car.
Exactly, this also goes for amazon as well. Because GM is their partner in this.
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#6In my province there are now more traffic deaths related to distracted driving than impaired driving, and yet new cars are featuring ever more and more ways to distract the driver. Is it time for government regulators to step in?
On Subaru’s they disable functionality related to Bluetooth pairing when you are driving . This would be a good solution for things like these.
On the other hand touch screens don’t let you have tactile or muscle memory which is probably a big part which would add to distractions . And your point about that these should be regulated I agree with .
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#7Sadly it is becoming difficult to get a nice car without all these extra(and unwanted) features....
With proper right-to-repair documentation, one could remove unwanted software from the car.
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#8Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage.
This is exactly the kind of ridiculously crazy stuff they come up with with board rooms when the sycophants don't have enough balls to tell their leaders they are nuts.
It's good to be ambitious, this is just stupid.
Now - if they could make it so you could get your car filled up and 'pay with your car' i.e. no credit cards, buttons or transactions - that would be a great convenience, and surely people in colder countries would use it.
Fix the 'getting gas' paint point which is huge.
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#9“Financed by the merchants...” I’m trying to think of a scenario where this ends well. I apparently lack imagination. I mean, Apple tries very hard to discourage me from using my phone while driving (I have to push a button that say, “I’m a shithead who thinks he’s the exception that can drive while looking at a phone”). How hard do you think those “financing merchants” are going to try?
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#10So how does this interact with the current in car experience? If I am playing music will it show me the song or the nearest starbucks?