ITT: we come up with the next most stupid thing in the automobile world
An AWD system which can only be used once, then it has to be serviced.
A button in the infotainment touchscreen that gives you a 25HP power up for $5.
Nissan makes the R36 Skyline GT-R a crossover
FWD electric cars
CVT muscle car
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sounds like you're taking about the Ferrari FF AWD system
the leaf is FWD
>CVT muscle car
I mean, theoretically if you could build one to handle that kind of power it would be GOAT at the 1/4 mile, I mean the CVT could act as a traction control on launch just stepping into taller ratios to get traction
Every car is going to have suicide/butterfly doors
god that would be awful
A button in the infotainment touchscreen that gives you a 25HP power up for $5.
I have a strong suspicion this will actually be a thing in Teslas and BMWs soon.
You might have to pay annual subscription fees to have access to the more advanced features too. That's how car manufacturers can continue to make money from used cars - subscription fees to keep the software licenses activated. If the software licenses deactivate, then the radio's physical buttons still work, but all the advanced features such as steering wheel buttons and touch screen could be disabled for everything but the required minimum baseline package required by law.
That's the danger about highly electronic cars. They're full of software for which subscription licenses are charged for farmers already. It's only another few steps to charge the common consumer.
>A button in the infotainment touchscreen that gives you a 25HP power up for $5.
Tesla already sells a battery capacity powerup for $2000. Customers already paid for the batteries though, so the fee is just to unlock the software that allows the capacity to be used. It kind of sucks when customers pay for the goods, and pay for the development cost of the software to prevent use of the goods, and then have to pay a third time to have the license monitoring software unlock the feature for $2000.
Here, I'll sell you a hammer, but you don't have the rights to use it on nails bigger than 8penny or on high impact usage. But if you pay a subscription fee of $1 per month or $8/year, you will be allowed to use the hammer on 16 penny nails which require high impact force. The handle of the hammer has a breakage feature which snaps if the license fee is not paid and verified by plugging in the USB port of the hammer to a PC. Once the license fee is paid, an internal squib is enabled which allows epoxy to mix and fill in the breakage gap. That strengthens the hammer handle enough to now be able to hit with greater force. The criminal irony consumer already paid for all that extra stuff inside the hammer to restrict usage if the license fee is not paid. That's how a Tesla car operates.
I guarantee you that in 20-30 years after all the big auto makers are doing this, the next huge thing will be an "open-source" auto manufacturer that allows full access to vehicle features and software from the factory and a major draw will be that it allows you to drive the vehicle fully under your control without driver aids (on closed private roadways only of course).
It'll be considered edgy and suicidal to drive a vehicle with no computer control and these dangerous free willed rebels will be seen as extremely problematic by the now aging ruling millennial, many of whom never owned a car or even learned how to drive. The same way punks were viewed in the 80s or hippies in the 60s.
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Sort of related.
I saw the adverts for Amazon Alexa things. One line was “dad loves it because it plugs right into the wall so it doesn’t need charging!”
Shit that used to be the norm. When we could charge devices with an internal battery that because the hot shit. Why is the fact that it plugs into a wall a fucking feature? We have gone full circle.