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  • gian @lemmy.grys.ittoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow Tesla blew its lead.
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    15 hours ago

    Which ones aren’t? Also deciding to copy dumb ideas from elsewhere is even more dumb as someone else did the alpha testing for you, showed it was dumb, and you still copied it.

    You don’t copy because you think it is a good idea, you copy because everyone did the same thing. If everyone start putting touch button on cars and you not, you will be seen as old. Even if the idea is stupid, it is the hot new idea of the day. Also putting touch screen is cheaper to build and update since in the end the physical button just send a signal to one of the various ECUs on the car anyway.

    Buttons for indicators I know are on modern ferraris, I can’t afford one but I still wouldn’t buy one because of them.

    Leaving Ferraris aside, it is not that a button as indicators is always a bad idea. What is a stupid idea is to put a touch button without tactile feedback, so you need to look to see if you have pressed it or not.

    Try using buttons on a steering wheel when doing a right at a roundabout, just the dumbest shit.

    Well, my Renault has some buttons on the steering wheel and it do not seems too bad to use them while driving, I find very convenient to be able to control something without moving my hands from it (ok, they are not touch button).
    A car I drove some months ago had double commands: touch ones and physical buttons. Not bad as choice.


  • gian @lemmy.grys.ittoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow Tesla blew its lead.
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    1 day ago

    Couple that with some truly dumb design ideas from Elon (no lidar, no physical buttons, indicators as buttons, stupidly high repair bills due to design choices) and some even more stupid personal behaviors from him and he has just cut the legs out of his market.

    Well, some of these dumb design ideas are not really from Elon and it is not that other car manufacturer are too much different…


  • gian @lemmy.grys.ittoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow Tesla blew its lead.
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    1 day ago

    I agree.
    The point is how much subsidies they receive. Chinese automakers seems to get way more (up to 30% if not more of the cost) than Tesla. That way it is easy to win on competitors.

    BTW, the 30% is not a personal educated guest, it is the estimated figure given by a very trustworthy economic journal which did an investigation and discovered that that some chinese automaker could probably absorb a 30% tariffs without changing the selling price.