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by marssaxman 1274 days ago
> Planes, trains, and automobiles are tech.

Reading and writing are "tech", if you insist on going down this pedantic road; but that's not what most people mean by that term in this context.

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I’m gonna disagree just a bit here, because it loops back around to the possible end of the “tech” hype.

Cars have been tech in this finance and investment bubble. Tesla, obviously, but then lots and lots of electric vehicle and autonomous driving startups came in with the whole song and dance of “disrupting the incumbents” and “move fast and break things” and “let’s milk customers forever and ever with subscriptions for self-driving taxis as a service”.

Which is in the process of going poof. (Remember Nikola? No. Good.). Lots and lots of hype about startups and subscriptions, and we’ve ended up with GM having arguably the best autonomous driving tech, and Ford having arguably the most hyped recent EV with the F-150.