A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto

people definitely want less screens and have been loud about it for years now. the industry finally listened.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/touchscreens

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/automakers-reth...

Jerry rigs everything did just that with an old army humvee. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vZL9uwyfOFezIOiBjkdW3...

That just means 27500 MSRP, still very low compared to the 70k-80k existing US options.

If it doesn’t meet safety standard that protect the driver of the vehicle, that’s one thing. But unsafe cars are sometimes unsafe for the other car.

I don't know what is 'here' in your case but individual imports/approvals exist and don't have to go through the same hurdles as type approvals.

Safety standards are not only for you, for the biggest part they are for pedestrians, other vehicles an people that happen to be in the car with you.

When Americans complain about the "nanny state" I mentally replace it with "we collectively". Because that is what a state ought to be — a expression of collective will and common sense policy. If it isn't that way in your country currently, that isn't on the state, that is on the people who are supposed to hold the power. Quite frankly, an antagonistic perspective on "the state" might even help it becoming worse.

Collective rules are not needed if anybody just would act informed and reasonable. But that is not the case and never has been the case. Without a state the next-big entity (a company, some local war lord, a gang, a king) will become the force where the buck stops. Unless you want to be at their whim collective and divided power (Rule of Law) is the way to go.

I hope you do realize that what you're saying here could also be read as: "I really wish we (collectively) would let me (individually) make bad decisions that would hurt us (collectively) if everybody (individually) did it". But the ultra-individualistic insistance to not be part of society seems to be very trendy right now, and is usally made by people who rely on society to provide everything to them in ways they aren't even aware about.

many of us would like to repeat and relive the tech magic like that of PC circa 90-ies and into 2000s.

>The myth of the sub-$25,000 electric vehicle has been around for more than 10 years now,

Equinox EV is MSRP 33.6K before 7.5 tax rebate. Looks and sounds like a decent modern compact SUV.

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> I'm the weirdo who still likes crank handles. They are actually faster at opening/closing windows.

Absolutely. Only one vehicle here has electric windows but that car was given to us. The other 6 vehicles are hand crank.

Definitely easier and less cognitive overhead when wanting it just open an inch or two!

Rather than remembering the exact right amount of pressure for that mode on the switch

I'm very curious how they are managing "no screens". I thought all vehicles in the U.S. were required to have rear-view cameras for safety. I'm curious how they are getting around that.

Edit: I now see that the article speculates that maybe there's a screen in the rear-view window for this. But I can't find anything concrete.

I feel ya but sabotaging telemetry still feels possible. De-screening a car seems solidly out of reach.

The basic protocol from an AC charger to your car is, "hello, I have X amps available, don't take more or you will trip my circuit breaker". The car responds by charging at or below the current advertised.

When you charge in a context where the car unlocks the charger (i.e. Tesla Supercharger), the protocol must divulge the car's certificate, signed by the owner of the charging network (like mTLS). There would be privacy-preserving protocols for this, but they are not used in practice.