Slate says its electric pickup will never track you

With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.

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[Aurich]

The manual windows decision is so fundamentally insanely dumb, that it makes me discount the entire project. A company that could be so dumb to make a feature an option that 99.99% of customers will choose (necessitating that additional cost to have the manual and automatic part for no reason) will probably make other more critical dumb decisions that will probably result in a faulty product.

I posted that reddit poll, and while I think we can all agree it's pretty much just for fun and non-binding, the fact that 2/3rds of the people were interested in the manual option feels more relevant to me than your asserting that 99.99% won't want it.

 

[Random_stranger]

I think you have to consider how many people are considering the Slate as a secondary vehicle where manual windows aren't going to be a day-to-day headache. In its base form, its also a "small" two door vehicle which means you can generally reach both handles.

As for ice makers, I know a lot of people that would like the door space back in their fridge.

Yeah, our ice maker is permanently turned off - too many leaks in the stupid tiny lines - and we would prefer it NOT have one.

 

[GaitherBill]

Slate may not have a cellular modem, but it would be extremely dumb for them not to have a WiFi capability, otherwise how are they going to OTA software updates?
Therefore we should presume they have Internet Connectivity, but not while driving.

You didn’t read the article, did you.