Does your car need a rear windshield?

[The Morning After]( It's Tuesday, April 02, 2024. You know those folks who say they’d donate a major organ to own a fancy car? Ask them if they’d feel as [comfortable sacrificing a rear window instead](. Polestar’s newest ride has made its North American debut at the NY Auto Show and notably lacks a rear windshield. The rationale is rear passengers get better headroom and a more comfortable ride than in other cars. Drivers, meanwhile, get a high-res display where the rear-view mirror used to be, linked to a live feed from a rear-mounted camera. Given how often people’s heads or luggage obscure the backward view, it’s a trade I’m readily prepared to accept. — Dan Cooper The biggest stories you might have missed [You can now use ChatGPT without an account]( [How to watch (and record) the 2024 solar eclipse on April 8]( [Open Roads review: Take it slow and savor the drama]( [Microsoft unbundles Teams and Office 365 for customers worldwide]( ​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. [Subscribe right here!]( [From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services]( Two decades of the customer being the product. Gmail wasn’t the first service that turned its users into the product, [but it’s probably the one we’re the most comfortable with](. After all, while Facebook and its kin have been perpetually slammed for privacy issues, who really gets mad at Gmail? Our anniversary package has a deep dive into the last 20 years of Google’s flagship mail product. [Continue Reading.]( [Google says it will destroy browsing data collected from Chrome’s Incognito mode]( … Oh, and speaking of Google and privacy. The search giant has settled a recent class-action lawsuit relating to Chrome’s tracking of Incognito users. [It has pledged to wipe out “billions” of data points it improperly collected and take steps to block any further tracking for five years](. (Always a good sign when a company pledges to stop doing something it’s been told off for doing, but only for a short period.) [Continue Reading.]( [Tekken director apparently keeps getting requests to add a Waffle House stage]( They could call it the Waffle Rough-House. For the uninitiated, Waffle House is a waffle-centric chain of 24/7 American diners with a reputation for random outbursts of violence. It’s apparently so well known that Tekken players have been [petitioning the game’s director to add a Waffle House level](. Sadly, it probably won’t happen because Waffle House stands accused of underpaying its workers and, given the above context, exposing them to an unsafe working environment. [Continue Reading]( The Morning After is a daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't [subscribe](. Craving even more? [Like us on Facebook]( or [follow us on Twitter](. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? [Send us a note.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( You are receiving this email because you opted in at [engadget.com](. Not interested anymore? [Unsubscribe from this newsletter.]( Copyright © 2024 Yahoo. All rights reserved.