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:
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.
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.
@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?