you know everyone talks about the enshittification of technology and the world wide web but we so rarely talk about the enshittification of automobiles
and i'm not talking about the complaint i've seen folks have about how they crumple at the smallest collision - like that's supposed to happen - the car crumples so YOU don't
but like...how they've added so many bells and whistles that honestly the car is insane. like not to sound like a boomer but there's a lot of unnecessary shit going on in cars and its definitely pricing them out of anyone's affordability but even more so cars are becoming outright digital now? run by a computer program that can crash and mess up at any time?
are y'all kidding me?
not to mention how much more unsafe that makes driving too. self-driving cars aside (which are an absolute chaos issue in their own right), every car now has at least one screen constantly tempting you to mess with it. maybe they were originally meant to make things safer, hands-free, whatever. but now they have so many features that they’re basically just a second phone to play with while you drive. click this button. engage with this app. converse with siri.
doesn’t matter if it’s hands-free if it isn’t focus-free. distracted driving is distracted driving! and nowadays it’s like cars dead-ass encourage it!!!















