Seiko

There is a fundamental inconsistency between what consumers expect from transportation and what today’s electric vehicle market actually delivers. Most people want more comfort and less planning. They don’t want to drive. They don’t want to think about annual maintenance, tire pressure, or oil changes. They want to get in, go, and arrive — without any mental overhead. Enter the electric vehicle, marketed as the future. But instead of freedom, it demands more: plan your route around charging stations, drive conservatively to preserve range, check tire pressure more frequently, monitor battery health, worry about winter degradation. A vehicle that promises simplicity ironically requires more attention than the noisy, polluting machine it replaces. ...

I wanted to repost the part about the mobility of an article I wrote in Turkish for 2024 Trends in the Software World on my blog. The topic of mobility is still in my focus and I am still following the developments closely. … Now I will end my article with a topic I haven’t mentioned before: Electric vehicles, or in general terms, automobiles. We have entered a strange period that will closely concern the software industry. It is like the Quartz revolution in watches (or the Quartz crisis if we look at it from the Swiss perspective). ...