I think I didn’t make it clear but as of 2025 they sold 7 million units. There’s conflicting information about whether they sold 7 million pairs in 2025 and more in 2023/2024 which could equal 10 million pairs though. But I haven’t found anything yet that says they’ve sold 10 million pairs in plain language.

https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-crisis-apple-google-snap

Yeah I haven’t been able to verify this claim. Closest I’ve come is about 7 million units sold and that was a year or more ago.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/878184/meta-sold-7-million-smart-glasses-in-2025-thats-triple-2023-and-2024-combined

It sounds like a fever nightmare.

Likely to still be used in a maintenance or emergency situation where the electronics are dead. If the vehicle has to be moved and a winch isn’t available a brake is pretty much a necessity. Anyone who’s had to push a car out of a lane of travel knows this.

The brake lever is a parking brake. It’s usually (in older cars that don’t have an electronic park brake) a cable actuation of the brake meant to keep your car from rolling away if the parking pawl fails. It’s not the same as the hydraulic braking you’d do with a pedal (and what you’d want in the event of an emergency braking situation). Getting rid of it is beyond foolish.