• artyom@piefed.social
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    6 months ago

    Porsche will give the electric Boxster and Cayman fake gear shifts and engine sounds

    God. Fucking. Damnit.

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      6 months ago

      This has been the case for a long time with fake cabin sounds. They add fake popping noises to the exhaust too. They added the ugliest knob ever so users could still fake key turn something to turn the car on. Half the shit is just fake bullshit for people with more money than brains.

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        6 months ago

        Even Assetto Corsa has better audio than this thing. It’s like they got the sound pack from Kyle Petty’s No Fear Racing from SNES. It sounds awful. And not just low quality, but it’s like, the sound is fake, you can make it sound like absolutely whatever you want. A V8 flat-plane-crank Ferrari? A V10 Lamborghini? A V8 F1 car? But no, you choose…a 4-banger economy car!?

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        6 months ago

        What choice? You can order it without this archaic crap?

        Is there a mod pack to make it sound like a horse-drawn carriage?

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          6 months ago

          The choice to use the feature or not use it. How is this hard?

          They either add the feature, so people can choose if they want it or not, or they don’t add the feature and no one can use it. How is having more options for how you want to experience your vehicle a bad thing?

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            6 months ago

            How is what hard? I haven’t driven the car but I also have watched a dozen videos about it and haven’t seen anything about turning it off, much less ordering it without the fuckboi paddle shifters on a single-speed car…

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              6 months ago

              How it is hard understanding this. There’s zero chance you watched a dozen videos, or even read the article to this post, which clearly states the importance of being able to switch these systems on/off.

              I haven’t seen videos on the car for a while, but every single one I watched a year ago made it extremely obvious that it was something you can turn on. If you legitimately watched a dozen videos and didn’t pick this up then you really need to learn some comprehension skills. If you’re lying about watching a dozen videos then I don’t know what to say to that.

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                6 months ago

                How it is hard understanding this.

                What is “this”?

                There’s zero chance you watched a dozen videos

                Have you been spying on me!?

                or even read the article to this post, which clearly states the importance of being able to switch these systems on/off.

                That was the Porsche guy, not Hyundai. But even then, what does “off” mean? “Off” in “touring” mode?

                And what about the goofy-ass paddle shifters? What do you do with those?

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                  “This” is the fact that the feature is adding choice for the consumer. I.e. a good thing. You’re getting upset that people have MORE options on how they want to drive.

                  Yes, the Porsche guy reiterated how important it is to make sure they can be shut off…so again, why is this news about Porsche adding the feature bothering you?

                  What about the paddle shifters? It’s the same argument. It’s a choice, use them if you think they make the driving experience more fun, don’t use them if you don’t like them.

                  If your whole thing is that they just look dumb, and that’s why you wouldn’t buy the vehicle then this has nothing to do with fake engine noises and fake gears, because tons of ICE vehicles have paddles as well.