r/SipsTea • • 10h ago

SMH Thoughts on this?

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u/EternalNewCarSmell 10h ago

fr this is a fucking appliance

Give me a 90s shitbox with modern safety features and sure, bluetooth for music and podcasts, and I am set. In fact at this point I would pay extra for that because it doesn't exist and I want it more than the shit that's out there.

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u/pharmloverpharmlover 9h ago

The software will stop being supported long before any of the mechanical parts are dead

They have no financial incentive to keep the software reliable/useable on old cars

So we just end up with glitchy software for a perfectly drivable vehicle

Planned obsolescence

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u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 9h ago

Early Tesla Model S are still seeing updates. Not at the rate the newer vehicles do, but they are not "unsupported". My first gen Model 3 received three new updates so far this year with new features, all for free.

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u/Miserable-Role9555 4h ago

Thats not what planned obsolecence is. The software doesn't need to be supported forever. Its not a smartphone that will reach end of life someday and be unable to download new apps.  These cars can just use whatever the final version # of their software is for 20 years until the mechanical parts of the car finally break down