Are Cars Just Smartphones on Wheels? The Driving Soul Debate
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Cars are evolving into “smartphones on wheels” with apps, updates, and subscriptions. But are we sacrificing the soul of driving for digital convenience?

For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Cars are among the grossest form of unsustainable privilege. They’re not becoming giant smartphones. They’re already giant cages with two sofas, HVAC, tons of metal, rubber, chemicals, etc. It already has a stereo system, so why not a computer and monitor?

    Cars are not “becoming smart phones”. They’re just becoming even more unsustainable and absurd.