cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/2362831

I don’t know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.

I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don’t need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don’t need a movie theater on wheels.

Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That’s what I want.

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It seems to me that you don’t understand how EVs work. They don’t have gears (usually) and they don’t have a constantly running combustion engine.

    Neutral and park (park is just neutral with a break automatically applied) do not exist in EVs, because EVs don’t have a constantly running engine. You only need neutral to disengage the clutch to prevent its wear during stops, because always running engine means that the car is always moving. That’s not happening in EVs.

    And you don’t need low/boost because EVs don’t have gears.

    So, you only have reverse and drive.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Huh, my EV also has neutral and park. It can be very useful to yet the wheels freewheel or to lock the wheels. However no PRNDL shifter control for usability

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You can’t freewheel on EV, there’s no mechanism for that. You can have a software simulation though, but it’s not needed for anything.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          When mine is configured for aggressive regen, it slows the vehicle to a stop. You couldn’t push the car, for example