There's nothing small and useless about it. The traditional dash is sized based on the need to get a physical dial display to fit. Comparatively this display will show all the usual icons at the same size you're used to, and display the speed larger than you are used to.

Why EVs? HMI design. Dials are a horrible interface for adding speed as the rate is change is not important to the driver. On the flip side tacho is important for rate of change to time gear changes so it functions better as a dial (and digital replicas give increasing led staged indicators for that reason).

There's no need for dials on EVs.
There's no need for every light to be it's own place on an LCD
As such there's no need for a physically large display.

How has anyone here been screwed? It's audacity, not windows 11. Precisely zero people are forced to upgrade and the software still works the way it always does.

Not sure what you are talking about "prepare for an era". You're talking about a tweak to a service that has existed since 2019. If you made this post back then, it would have made sense. But even then only partially.

Nothing about this prevents you from owning hardware and buying games like normal. In fact even if you get your games from Xbox's Game Pass you can still download them and play them locally.

If you're playing xbox for an equivalent of an hour every day then you're not a "casual". Actually by Microsoft's own statement you're in the top 4% of gamers.

Except that's a small tip of the iceberg. The companies we would most gladly vilify as those who have done the most damage are precisely the ones who don't do the emissions themselves, but rather sell products to others who proceed to do the emitting.

Every Hyundai with an ICE has a stick shift option. If you're lamenting not having a stick shift on an EV or a hybrid then I am also sympathetic to your view, the same way someone is sympathetic in general to people with mental handicaps.

That sounds like great information that every car makes available to the driver on the ... wait for it ... instrument cluster.

Voluntarily or not? I didn't know Telsa offered it as an optional extra? I thought they just made one shitty design choice and forced it on whomever wanted the entire model.

This is putting important information in clear sight vs making the drive divert their attention from the road. Comparing it to heated seats is asinine.

A tacho is not remotely important to the operation of a motor vehicle unless you're racing or off roading. How many cars do you know who don't have a spedometer on the instrument cluster?

Some choices shouldn't be available. Ever. Kind of like how we don't give people the choice of not having ABS or airbags.

Teslas exist in the UK. It's legal. Fucking stupid, but so far legal.

They are actually not mandatory in most countries to exist above the steering wheel, for one many Teslas don't have them. The information just needs to exist some where. You are spot on with what they mean though. Yes they are removing the thing that's easy to glance at and are pulling a Tesla forcing the driver to look over at the massive infotainment system

Fucking stupid.

I'm old enough to remember when delusional disorder was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders edition IV. It describes a recurring false believe, especially when it has been debunked over and over again such as the so called "adjustment to create warming trends"

Congrats my friend, you officially have a mental illness.

I hope you're male because if not your husband will likely beat you like the good Christian bible commands for speaking your mind.

But I guess we're okay with committing genocide too right? After all God commanded King Saul to do just that.

Next time we go to war don't forget to to slaughter the woman and children, specifically make sure you pay attention to the pregnant woman, the bible suggested "ripping them open".

Yeah religion is so aligned with our laws and values. Hell at least God himself agreed and decided to cancel all of humanity with a flood.

It's time to kick the Christians out of Europe, they are a murderous worshiping cult not aligned with any laws.

You're being way too general. Define computer, define what software is used. Define *when* it can be put in place. Be specific. A computer is a very broad tool that does a lot of things. At what point can we assist spell checking? Do we stop teaching basic spelling at the same time we finish leaning the times table and give people basic calculators?

Note even for calculators we vary what level of complexity is introduced when. There was a specific year at school we had to switch from normal calculators to scientific calculators and then from scientific calculators to graphic calculators. That got us through to uni where graphic calculators were replaced with matlab and R. There's specific milestones related to learning materials on a per subject basis that needs to be addressed.

The GNIS is a database, one that doesn't include business in any way. It's up to the state to manage the renaming of official signage. As of right now, those street and trail signs are wrong, officially so. The business names however are right, they have no relation or requirement to follow any official naming convention.

Well this is where I'm coming from. Industrial control systems are not normally kept up to date with the latest OS. For actual control systems they are usually certified combinations of hardware and software. You don't get to upgrade Windows or Linux, what you do is buy a new database server or a new engineering workstation with the new OS on it.