Can't say I agree on car modification needing to be eliminated from the market, or that all cars should meet that one single standard you defined. The PC market would be horrible if it was like that, and the same goes with cars. There should always be a car aftermarket just like there is for PCs. I should be able to freely modify my car as I wish, for whatever purposes I wish, using whatever parts I wish, the same as a PC. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of advancements made to the entire automotive industry that came from racing and performance vehicles over many decades, including safety equipment and features. Enthusiast-level car sh1t should not be gotten rid of any more than enthusiast-level PC sh1t. And the car enthusiasts or "race boys" as you put it are just the automotive version of PC hardware enthusiasts, but f*ck them huh? Status symbols buyers can f*ck off though, it's stupid as f*ck to buy a car purely as a status symbol, same as buying a computer as a status symbol. You buy that sh1t to use it and enjoy it, not because it makes you feel "important," makes you feel like you have succeeded in life, or to try to show off to women or some nonsense.
And no PC needs to be gaming-capable or high-performance, but where would the PC market be if enthusiast-grade hardware hadn't pushed things over the last few decades? I tell you this, none of us would be on this site or [H], that's for d4mn sure. We don't use bare-minimum PCs around here. We don't roll with the PC equivalent of what you said a car should be, "the least required to get you from home to work and back again, and to the grocery store and back home again, not some sort of lifestyle of burning rubber or offloading." What a boring world that would be, without a reason for people to become PC enthusiasts or car enthusiasts. I am not interested in the least in driving a car whose only purpose is to go from point A to point B without making the part between A and B engaging and interesting. In general with PCs and cars I am of the mindset that the daily driver and the race car need to be the same thing (although I guess it's kinda different if you are using a separate PC with Windows for gaming, and your main PC is something that runs a more respectable OS like Linux, cuz that would be like having a practical car for normal daily use, and then another car you drive less often that is used just for enjoyment).
Ugh, vehicle as an appliance like a toaster or microwave, no thanks. That's something EVs are good at though. I'm glad neither PCs nor cars stayed that way.
Just wait until energy standards come after your hot rod PC and home servers.
People who mod their cars are such a small fraction that they do not have any significant impact in the big picture. Just let people have this little fun. What's next, PC gaming is banned due to power consumption? Or restricted to 1 hour / week A'la china? Sorry, I mean Winnieland.
I’ve migrated nearly all of my home server gear to raspberry pis. If I could buy a consumer version of one of those big ampere or graviton I’d move my last home server to low power arm.
You would think, but it doesn't work that way in the US.
In the end it is a big humbug. Car mfgs will simply skirt the law by adding a hybrid system that will make the consumption for the measurement cycle meet 49mpg, but overall the car won't be much more efficient.
Yeah we already see a lot of that. For example, the auto engine stop thing is exactly that — has no effect on real world fuel economy and just serves to piss me off and put more west and tear on the car.
Yes exactly. Anyone that wants ac or heat will either have that disabled automatically because ac or heat is on. OR just manually disable that function... for as long as we can.
If you are one that uses the auto start/stop function it will not shut off the engine if you are using the AC or heat depending on the settings. This is in the Ford product line at least. The vehicle determines if their is too much of a power draw to shut the engine off. My wife's previous Escape would do this, but not so much with her 2020. On some of the vehicles you can order the auto start/stop delete to remove it all together so I did that when I ordered my new truck. Not a fan of it myself.
Oh that's interesting, I'm glad that's an option you can choose.
Yes I was happy to see that option myself. I got used to turning it off by the button in my current F150, but it will be nice not having to reach over to shut it off every time I start the truck.