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Ask HN: As an IT person, what do you like and dislike about cars?
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#2I hate driving at all, so I am very excited for the day I never operate a car again.
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#3Touch screens replacing physical buttons.
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#4Not so much "about cars" - but how gov't regs effectively prevent smaller, more efficient vehicles from being made now
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#6Data collection.
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#7Off the top of my head:
Why doesn't every car:
- stop collecting and reporting my data to the manufacturer
- offer full diagnostic readouts of trouble codes
- come with one or more docking bays to mount and wireless charge phones
- come with a router for all occupants to share a powerful car based hotspot
- offer a manual transmission
- showcase my fuel efficiency rather than my rpms (who needs a giant rpm gauge anymore?)
- come with airplane style passenger monitors tied to individual phones
- support phone based entry and start
- support find my car
- include E-ZPass or equivalent
- stop micro-transactions
- allow self repair
The things I do like about my cars are:
- 5k or 15k miles between services
- backup cameras
- integrated mapping
- remembers my seat and mirror preferences
- AWD when I need/want it
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#8I drive an old pickup. When I rented a "modern" car for a long trip, I was appalled by the numbers of needless features. In motorcycle talk, it was a garbage wagon. My 30 year old Chevy pickup is simple and functional. It's a lot like the early Macintoshes: so simple that it's elegant.
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#9Monolithic software. Cars come bundled with an entire suite of specialized software interfaces, for all sorts of personal systems - from sound, to interior lighting, to window control, to hvac. You take what you get, and hope it's ok.
I wish there were software interfaces that let users enjoy the "soft"ness software can bring. I'd way rather be able to try out & maybe build my own apps for different car functions. I'd like control via other devices. I'd like to share control with other people & their devices when they're in the vehicle.
It was posed as a negative thing, but the "Jeep hack" of 2015 (affecting a much broader range of vehicles highlighted what a simple capable powerful bus underlies the car. It's just a DBus compatible interface for a huge range of the cars functions. Just exposing that would massively tip the balance back towards letting people have actual agency & control over their vehicles.
Ideally though we'd all get full root access to the Linux computer or computers running multi-seat In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) to boot. So we can work these computers as we might. And ideally upgrade or replace the brains as we desire too.
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#10The worse thing about cars is their users.