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Originally Posted by cellsafemode
I'm less concerned with electric cars being mandated for all new car sales in 15 years than I am with the general progression of cars (ice and e) towards turning you into a user rather than an owner. The general progression of taking away your right to repair. The progression towards locking you into manufacturer only options by using encrypted or proprietary solutions to what would otherwise be easily standardized options for owners. The general progression of cars to always be connected and sending that telemetry data to their home base to sell to other legally entrenched parties (insurance, law enforcement etc).
All of that should be far more upsetting and infuriating than ending ICE cars. We're on the road towards ending driving ....and towards just being driven...with no real ownership and no real privacy. Fun. And that's happening whether or not your new car is electric.
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Trust me, the progression of cars in general from "I bought it, now it's mine, and you're done with it" to cars as mobility defined and controlled by others bothers me at least as much as an EV mandate.
Either of them amounts to somebody else essentially wanting me to want things done the same way that they happen to (for whatever reasons). One is pretty blatant about its invasiveness, the other is sneaky about it.
Norm