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  • Honestly it’s sort of the principle of it.

    Like the car has it, it’s already cost the manufacturer to install it sure there are ongoing dev costs for some things, but not all.

    On top of that many manufacturers are locking the features to the one person.

    So for example I pay for heated seats. Then I sell the car, and the new owner has to “buy” heated seats again.

    I’m sorry I’m not supporting that bullshit or the manufacturers who are doing this one bit even if I don’t pay for a feature.

    On top of that there are issues with servicing and also forced firmware updates.

    A friend was late to work the other day because his Tesla was doing an update when he tried to leave, like what happens if someone was trying to rush a partner to a hospital or something and you happen to jump in the car as it’s mid way through an update.

    I want to be in control of the things I own and pay for, that’s the whole point of owning something. Car manufacturers these days seem to be under the delusion that they still own our vehicles and we are just the money sacks they are renting them to.

    This has been going on for a while, but seem much much worse on the electric cars.

    Also frankly the infrastructure isn’t there in many places around the world.

    It’s not just waiting to charge the car that’s the issue, it’s waiting for the charger… when each vehicle takes up to 30min-an hour to get a meaningful amount of range back suddenly you need like 10x as many charging stations as you had petrol/diesel pumps.

    And while this may be in place in some places in the world it’s not in most. Add this to the fact that charging points are often out of order well you start to see the issue.





  • Kumabear@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe struggle is real
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    1 year ago

    See the issue is “gain all the skills”

    Comes after the job

    Grads know nothing… They just hopefully have the foundation concepts there now to build the true knowledge of how things work and are done in the real world.

    That’s the real reason grads can’t get jobs… I’ll take someone with 10 years real world experience in the role or one similar and no on paper qualifications in a heartbeat over a fresh faced university graduate.