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Here’s the electric car that Sony is going to build with Honda

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    AugustusFerdinand
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    As the resident car guy here, thoughts: That's a dumb fucking name and their explanation for the name is I-like-the-smell-of-my-own-farts advertising department bullshit. Maybe it shouldn't...

    As the resident car guy here, thoughts:

    1. That's a dumb fucking name and their explanation for the name is I-like-the-smell-of-my-own-farts advertising department bullshit. Maybe it shouldn't matter, but people can (and will) avoid a perfectly fine automobile with a dumb name.
    2. The car is... meh looking. It looks like a 90's scifi b-movie imagining of a future car and the full width lightbar doesn't help.
    3. In typical concept car fashion, it doesn't have door handles.
    4. The text across the front light bar is going to be used to insult people, guaranteed.
    5. Quit with the Tesla copying and the goddamn yoke. No one likes the fucking yoke. The only people that say they like the shitty yoke are Musk-can-do-no-wrong fanbois. There's nothing wrong with a steering wheel and it is infinitely more capable than the goddamn yoke.
    6. Touchscreens are worse than buttons, but at least this seems to have a physical control in the armrest.
    7. White interiors suck and honestly they make me think of sterile and cold hospital rooms or authoritarianism scifi, not good utopia scifi.

    EDIT: In related news, Tesla Caves, begins offering an actual steering wheel.
    All the automakers with concepts that have been copying this terrible idea collectively say: Well fuck.

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    1. Akir
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      Concept cars jumped the shark a long time ago, but for some reason literally every major electronics manufacturer has been spending huge bucks in automotive OEM bling. This year Volvo is trying to...

      Concept cars jumped the shark a long time ago, but for some reason literally every major electronics manufacturer has been spending huge bucks in automotive OEM bling.

      This year Volvo is trying to convince you how much better a car would be if the exterior was made of TV screens, you don’t need an instrument panel, and the windshield is now an entertainment display designed specifically to distract you from the road.

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