I don’t know how extended this is, but apparently there are car makers selling cars with no keys. Instead you download a proprietary app and use it to access your car.
I like being practical and talking to a car to turn the volume up or down, to open the door or to turn the temperature higher are things I don’t need nor want. Give me mechanical levers, reachable stalks and no proprietary bloatware. I don’t need a movie theater on wheels.
Imagine an early 2000s car running on an electric motor. That’s what I want.
I like a mix of mechanical and some software, and several of the EVs I looked at had that mix. I liked Polestar for the mix of stalks and levers + some good tech making my life easier, but they really messed up outsourcing their software to Infosys. As for the key situation, many give you the option of app or actual key…they just boast about the app because they think it’s cooler.
From a privacy and security perspective, I can’t think of anything worse. As well as that, how long will they support the app for?