Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens.

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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

touch screens will return in every autonomous vehicle. If they can be jailbroken, that might end up being a good thing for the consumer in the long tun.

Yeah, I don't know which is worse, trusting your life to

  1. software written by ChatGPT, then checked for "quality assurance" by minimum wage code monkeys in the Philippines;
  2. or software written by ChatGPT, checked for "quality assurance" by a bunch of code monkeys, then jailbroken and running a metric ton of spyware, malware, third-party apps, dodgy games and unapproved backdoors.

(As opposed to the approved and mandatory backdoors which governments will require to be inserted, so they can track you and remotely disable the vehicle.)

[–]thatrightwinger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The point of jailbreaking isn't to hand your life to every app that you see: it's to have choice beyond what the companies who installed beyond them.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Indeed. The choice to install malware and spyware, the choice to allow software with vulnerabilities to be hacked, the choice to install third-party apps filled with backdoors.