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Ive been screaming this since touch screens in cars started catching on. We are surely beyond believing automation is done for convenience and betterment of our lifestyles at this point. It's all to create more time and a new surface for us to serve ads on. The average consumer is completely infatuated with the idea of their car being a doom scrolling device, so we get dragged further into hell.

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> The average consumer is completely infatuated with the idea of their car being a doom scrolling device, so we get dragged further into hell.

bollocks. all available research suggests the average person strongly prefers manual controls and buttons and is not into touchscreens and the like.

and none of those discussions precludes auto manufacturers from just putting mics in the car -- even with 95% old school buttons they could just wire it up to listen to you and pipe it out to a tiny LTE transmitter.

The research is wrong because people are buying the iPad on dash cars. The data collection, sampling, or methodology of the research presents a different result than the market reality of what people actually bought with their money.

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