Do you remember the good ol’ days in F1 when we had:

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“Ok, so what you can see in the logs?”

“Sweetcorn.”

I agree it’s terrible on mobile, but it’s the wall of text I love on desktop. I want to see as many titles on a subreddit as I can.

The Lemmy web desktop UI is quite similar. I just wish the list of subscribed communities was more accessible rather than being at the bottom of the instance home page.

What are your other contacts using? They can’t be stuck sending SMS and paying per message surely?

This comment is so ridiculous it has to be some sort of bait.

The tankies love to slurp up Russian propaganda that Ukraine are fascists and that’s why Russia are the good guys. If Russia isn’t fascist then I don’t know which country is, but if there were a scale then Russia is significantly closer to fascism than Ukraine.

You might not even see the comments they’re referring to as your instance has their instances blocked.

You must be new here lol. Lots of tankies on this instance.

I hear you, but the vast majority of Audi customers just won’t care about this DRM or property rights on their car. If they’re leasing then it’s irrelevant as it’s never their car in the first place. It just won’t even be something that they even consider.

What their customers will care about is the fact that they don’t have to financially commit to getting an “optional extra” up front, but instead can pick and choose when they want to use it.

Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently

The subscription model for features on a car is shitty for a host of reasons, but at least they’re still offering the option to buy them outright like normal. If you really value ownership then at least you can purchase the car and buy these addons up front.

I’m going to go against the grain here and say I do see why they think doing this could be attractive to customers. I’d wager to say that ownership of their vehicle isn’t a priority, just look at how many people lease their cars now vs buying outright. This is a market that will have the car and replace it within 3 years. So these type of people may purchase upfront an extra they absolutely do care about and must have, but if there’s something else they’re a bit unsure of, they could leave it off, get the subscription for a month to try it, and then decide if they want to continue on a longer plan to keep the feature.

Or left hand for right-hand drive cars, but yes.

I watch the CarWow channel on YouTube and they review a lot of EV’s, and the host struggled with it - it would take him several attempts to get it into drive as he’d swipe up but not all the way so it would never actually engage. I guess in that case a software fix could be applied to make the control more sensitive but it’s still fucking stupid to have it there in the first place.

Also for more WTFs, on that same channel, they do these challenges where they drive a bunch of EVs on a route and see which one goes the furthest, which has the closest range to what the manufacture claims it’ll do and what happens to the vehicle when it runs out of battery. There was an instance where the Tesla ran out of charge, but they couldn’t open the recharging port because the little door is electronic.

I think the latest models also have the gear selector (or whatever they’re called for automatics / EVs) on the touch screen, so you need to swipe up to put it into drive.

I understand all those requirements except the tape player. I don’t why anyone would need that? In fact they’d probably just add additional cost as I imagine getting brand new tape decks would be hard to source now.

I got a temp ban and my comment removed on the ml world news community a few months ago for saying something similar to you. That Hamas shares some responsibility for the deaths of Palestinians because Israel’s response would be so predictable.

The only two possible reasons I can think of are to try and keep on top of costs, and to keep performance of the teams as close as possible.

Thanks for the reply. It definitely sounds like there should be a limit on the number of batteries used per season then. There must be a reason for doing it though - are they just not as performant once they’ve been through a race weekend?

Why are tankies a key strength? Or do you mean purely for entertainment value?

As a fan of F1, and I casually watch FE, I’d much rather have human commentators, thanks.

FE car produces more emissions throughout the season than F1 or NASCAR due to expensive manufacturing

Are you able to expand on this? What’s unique to FE’s manufacturing that it could be more impactful than F1? I can only assume it’s something to do with the batteries, but F1 also uses batteries for the hybrid system, albeit smaller than FE’s.

The low, sloping shape gives it a sporty feel that cribs from Honda’s Formula 1 experience.

So the car will be terrible for several years, then they’ll bring out a model that’s amazing with sales going through the roof, and then they’ll immediately pull out of the market.