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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
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[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

More options are always the optimal solution for the consumer

No, that's not true. Too much choice creates decision fatigue and can be exploited to create a confusopoly.

You do need enough options to ensure a competitive market, but beyond that, at some point the marginal utility of adding another option ad infinitum becomes negative.

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