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#TechThursday – Four Wheels of Salvation
Lindsey Schutters
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26 Mar, 2020
The first step when rebuilding the world economy will be to ramp up activity like building cars to get multiple people on the production lines again – back into their jobs. And the cars will be cheap, to get you back onto the dealer floors. You may be on lockdown now, but Lindsey Schutters thinks you’ll be in a new car this time next year.
#TechThursday – Curing Congestion
Lindsey Schutters
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12 Mar, 2020
As city driving taxes balloon – expensive parking, time lost in traffic, congestion charges – last mile solutions should grow to meet the park-at-the-edge crowd, says Lindsey Schutters. But with consumer demand dwindling under the weight of our fear of getting our hearts racing, there may not be suitable hardware for our road traffic renaissance.
#TechThursday – The Customer is Always Right
Lindsey Schutters
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5 Mar, 2020
Maybe if you lift your eyes from your phone the next time you’re using a ride-hailing service, you can better appreciate the beautiful crescendo of technological harmony that brought this complete stranger to your door. Ride hailing is making our roads safer, but also making us worse people and Lindsey Schutters is totally fine with that.
#TechThursday – Made For Who?
Lindsey Schutters
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20 Feb, 2020
Many new cars are not made with any sincerity towards the customer, instead introduced to mitigate against industry clampdowns. The e-Golf, for example, was merely a compliance car to meet the strict European regulations – and in the wake of Dieselgate. Car manufacturers aren’t making cars for people and that’s very worrying for Lindsey Schutters.
#TechThursday – Master Your Universe
Lindsey Schutters
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13 Feb, 2020
Did you also know that WhatsApp will record voice notes over your car microphone when you’re connected via Bluetooth? Or that you can connect to Bluetooth without the key in the ignition? Or that you’ve been driving with your rear fog lamps on for forever? Commuting nirvana, suggests Lindsey Schutters, is only achieved through reading the manual.
#TechThursday – Is There Still a Need For Speed?
Lindsey Schutters
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6 Feb, 2020
There’s a new fastest car in the world in the form of the Koenigsegg Regera which employs some trick hybrid engineering such as three electric motors and no gearbox. But does outright speed even matter anymore? Or is it an impressive statistic relegated to a dusty set of Top Trump cards? Lindsey Schutters ponders this and more…
#TechThursday – Losing Control
Lindsey Schutters
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30 Jan, 2020
Actual switchgear isn’t common in futuristic EVs, take Tesla for example – you’ll battle to spot a physical button at all in its Spartan, minimalist interior, not ideal when changing a setting is buried in a sub-menu, within a folder somewhere… Honda’s new E, despite it’s shortcomings has actual buttons, and this pleases Lindsey Schutters no end.
#TechThursday – The Future is Underwhelming
Lindsey Schutters
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27 Jan, 2020
Cruise Origin is the world’s first road ready fully autonomous car and unfortunately it is an uninspiring slab of shared riding and shared ownership. What, were you wanting one of those weird concepts from Minority Report? So sorry to disappoint you but looks like Barney was right all along. What does this mean for SA? Lindsey Schutters explains…
#TechThursday – Rock The Cradle
Lindsey Schutters
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23 Jan, 2020
Carmakers are the reason why you see so many people using their phones in traffic because there’s no such thing as an intuitive, well-supported, universal infotainment system. Sure, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay have come a long way and integrate well with 3rd party apps for media and satnav, but neither are standard fare, says Lindsey Schutters.
#TechThursday – Stop Asking Smart Cars to do Dumb Things
Lindsey Schutters
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16 Jan, 2020
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the official start of the new tech year. It’s the place where you see your next TV or smartphone, but more recently the car industry has now shifted its focus to CES. Sadly, it’s all mostly flights of fancy that manufacturers hope will get millennial bums into driver seats, and Lindsey Schutters has had enough
