EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
These days it appears that most production EVs are emulating Tesla and slapping tablet-like touch screens in the middle of their instrument panels. They're all "connected," to one extent or another, and they boast that they can link to your mobile phone. It can't be much longer before we're being dunned with offers to "Charge your EV for free with Google Charge (tm)! Get the app today!"
The overpowering influence of Big Business and Advertising reminds me of the science fiction classic "The Space Merchants" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants> It describes a dystopian future that sounds very much like our world today. It describes a world run by big corporations, with advertising used to brainwash the public into buying whatever ineffective, addictive, or even dangerous products will make them the most money. It's rated as the 24th best SF novel of all time, right up there with "The Martian Chronicles" and "The War of the Worlds".
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