Ronno

Ferrari's implementation is also simply better. Button on the left for left indicator, button on the right for right indicator. But still, it's not great to use on roundabouts. The reason nobody cared when it was added to Ferrari's is because it's not a mass produced product. EuroNCAP score doesn't really matter for Ferrari and other sports car manufacturers anyways. They could have a 1 star rating and still be sold, because the car isn't about safety.

For the millionth time, nobody wants AI, because AI is not a use case. Sell me the thing I can do with it, that actually helps me on a daily basis, that is what I can then want to buy. AI for consumers is currently just slapping AI around hoping the user believes it's a solution for a problem they didn't know they had in the first place.

Yeah perhaps. I can imagine that the indicator buttons on Tesla's was the final straw to take this action, before other manufacturers started pulling of weird shit like that.

Your last paragraph is what surprises me the most, because that's just not the case. Project 2025 was very clear, they weren't lied to, they just heard what they wanted to hear.

It's not that weird IMHO. Anything driving related should be a button or a stalk, like EuroNCAP is saying. All non-driving related stuff can be on screen, which I believe is fine. Personally, I think people have been driving the wrong vehicles, or drive older vehicles, when they say that they can't use HVAC controls on a touchscreen. It's not that much more different than a button, in most cars it's in a dock on a touchscreen, easily accessible. I also strongly believe that you don't use the HVAC buttons as much on newer cars, because the systems have become so much better, that's probably also what the manufacturers see in their data when deciding for their new designs.

The touchscreen hate is a little blown out of proportion IMO. People that drive Tesla's hardly complain about the touchscreen, mostly about the removal of stalks. I also don't hear people complaining in newer BMW's and other more luxury brands, even though those brands use touchscreens for a lot of stuff these days.

Glad to see some manager making 6 figures "did something".

I don't think small family heirlooms are the issue OP is trying to address. It's about naitivity of the older generation(s) passing down items that had fit their lifestyle, but their generation made it difficult for the current generation to have the same standards of living.

I live in a country with a quite strong social security scheme, but the money in our social security funds, like pensions, is mostly invested in the stock market anyways.

A fee to pay taxes? Why not include it in the taxes at that point? It's just ridiculous.

Similar to that time I went to the local garage, my car needed a new 12v battery. Fine, it got swapped for a new one. On the receipt, it had the costs broken down. The garage had the audacity to include a line for: "Charging battery 20 Euro".

I'll throw my money at any TV manfucturer that just sells me a dumb OLED TV with great picture quality. Heck, even drop the speakers, I won't be using them anyway. Just a dumb panel with plenty of input/outputs.

Wouldn't an HDMI to DP cable work then?

Yeah great... another gift card to stow away in a corner somewhere for that one time you want to use it. But then when you could use it, you forgot that you had a gift card in the first place, so it will just lay there and expire, which is exactly what gift card sellers want, it's their business model.

I'd rather just have cash. Or if it's one of those "experience" gift cards, just take me out to do it with you. It's much more fun with the person that gives the gift anyways.