“Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car,” Farley said, referring to two of China’s tech giants. “You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you like.”
It’s hard to express just how much I don’t want that.
And how inconfortable it makes that other people think this is desirable, especially people in positions of power.
Same. It's impossible to communicate without screaming, and maybe lighting my clothes on fire.
Help. I'm convulsing.
“You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you like.”
If that's not a cyberpunk privacy nightmare, I don't know what is.
I'm so glad the Slate truck is so simply made it can't even support a SIM card. It's the one modern car that's just a car.
Oh man. I didn't know it existed, and now I know it still doesn't. 🙁
So basically Ford is admitting “We really have to compete again, and make GOOD products that people actually WANT. Nobody here remembers how to do that, so we’re reverse-engineering products from China.”
Great job!
You should read the article.
That's literally what the article says
Farley said he brings his whole leadership team on his trips to the country, where they drive as many of the latest cars that they can.
“Then we pick the four or five that we love and then we put them on a plane and fly them to Detroit. And then we drive the crap out of them, and then we take them apart and we put them back together,” he said.
I did
And that’s why they will never be available in North America.
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