Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism.

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.

The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing machines for the microchips in them, extracting the chips and discarding the washing machines like some absurdo-dystopian cyberpunk walnut-shelling machine:

Vendetta9076,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

What an awful article. Makes the AI written ones almost tolerable by comparison.

BitSound,

Here’s a better link that doesn’t even need an archive.is link:

pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

Kind of ironic to talk about enshittification on medium, that’s currently going through the process of enshittification. At least he’s got his writing on his regular site as well.

criticon,

The author seems to take an article and get everything out of context:

What’s more, drivers hate all the digital bullshit, from the janky touchscreens to the shitty, wildly insecure apps. Digital systems are drivers’ most significant point of dissatisfaction with the automakers’ products: theverge.com/…/car-infotainment-customer-satisifa…

Actual article says that consumers don’t like the OEM interface, compared to their cellphones, so they are satisfied with smartphone mirroring. It never says they hate the digital stands

Same for the company buying washing machines, in the linked article it never says it is an automotive company doing it 🤷

4am,
@4am@lemmy.world avatar

In a vacuum that’s true, but auto makers seem to want to move away from stuff like Apple CarPlay to their own OEM systems, usually of questionable quality and, I assume, much easier to add subscriptions to.

Hence enshitification.

Anticorp,

If cars start requiring subscriptions, then I will start driving old klunkers for the rest of my life. Cars are already about 75% more expensive than ever before, even when adjusted for inflation.

spamfodder,

@Anticorp @4am

ha-ha-ha! that's funny! i figga it's been 30yr since you could buy a car with a carburetor. what are you going to do when your mass flow sensor craps out?

Anticorp,

I love touch screens on my car for stuff like settings and gps entry. As long as a car has knobs for the basic stuff like volume and AC controls then the touch screen greatly enhances the UX. It’s the mouse operated screens like the ones Lexas uses that are terrible, or when they only have touch screens and no knobs.

zephyrvs,

archive.is/…/autoenshittification-cb851c2574fb

Full text without having to login/sign up.

andscape,

Or just pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

He has a mirror of his blog on his own website without paywall. Not sure why he still publishes on Medium too, visibility I guess…

zephyrvs,

Thanks!

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