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Originally Posted by Number 3
And if that doesn't float your boat, at least check out the Porsche Taycan. You may not like either to your eye, but neither are "appliances". Both of these cars were designed and engineered for people that enjoy driving cars by people that enjoy driving cars that work for companies that make cars for people that enjoy driving cars.
Car culture will not be destroyed by EVs. L4 and L5 autonomous vehicles on the other hand might. When it truly becomes a vehicle/conveyance that you don't own and don't drive we will see the beginning of the end. Not sure when that happens, but the GM Cruise Origin is on it's way.
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The Taycan looks pretty good indeed, I actually wouldn't mind driving one if it didn't cost as much as a house. However, 99% of all other EVs on the market, including those being advertised as "coming soon" are either butt ugly, looking like an appliance (Bolt, bZ4X, Model 3 etc.) or outright ridiculous (e.g. the Cybertruck).
Even more salient is your other sidenote about autonomous driving: while a vehicle being an EV isn't a theoretical requirement for that, it is a practical one, because nobody will mess with complex and expensive hardware when they can just do the same in software. Yes, technically it isn't "EV-ness" that is turning vehicles into appliances, but the correlation is way too strong not to acknowledge. I'm sure eventually ICE vehicles would've reached that point, too, but the operative word here is "eventually", and I'm also sure it wouldn't have happened in our lifetimes.