re: Anyone else hate how much stupid tech they put in vehicles now?

With the giant screens in the middle, seems like radio, CarPlay, Navigation, etc could all run through that screen- I know it’s probably ‘safer’ to have it closer to the driver, but it just creates unnecessary repairs when the screen inevitably goes out.

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With the giant screens in the middle, seems like radio, CarPlay, Navigation, etc could all run through that screen-

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"With this smartphone, now my calculator, clock, calendar, atlas, map, games, Rolodex, Walkman, egg timer, and supercomputer all run through one screen."

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I know it’s probably ‘safer’ to have it closer to the driver,

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Can't a lot of these functions be done from the steering wheel?

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And WTF do i need heated/cooled seats and all this dumbass other shite for? It's just more shite to break that i cant replace.

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A high school classmate got a Volvo around 1980. He said the heated seats made him fart a lot during his morning commute in Houston.

I hear you dude, so many unneeded gizmos to break, and they are made cheaply to begin with. I still don't buy that today's cars are safer than the tanks we drove decades ago, because they aren't.

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. I just want a cheap safe car.

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What is stopping you from getting that?

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Get the basic work truck version. No need for the bells and whistles.

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This. I’m in the market for the first time in forever and realized the new silverado “customs” are usually the cheaper bare bones version. I kept seeing “custom” on the tailgate and figured that meant it’d be a lot more expensive. Got to poking around and nope

The OT claims that there are barely any real men anymore except themselves and here a lot of them are defending heated/cooled seats and Appleplay or whatever

We’re doomed

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I still don't buy that today's cars are safer than the tanks we drove decades ago, because they aren't

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Demonstratively false.

If you want the numerous links and videos I'll pull them up.


More and better visibility, more warning sensors, and actual systems that can stop an unaware driver from an avoidable accident?

look, I used to be you, with my Luddite arse, saying "frick the technology, frick the sensors, I'm a man! I don't need all that shite!"



Then I almost ran my 7 year old son over because when I checked it was clear and when I Started backing up he was below the sight line of the window.


It takes one second. One foot. One look the wrong way.

Just the other day, there was a thread on one that happened. A man backed over his kid.

Broke my heart. This time...coulda been me.

We look through the past in a nostalgic lense.

We remember the stuff we liked.

We forget the terrible awful shite.

I forget that a friend of mine would still be here had he had something looking out to sense the guy going too fast to stop for the stop sign.

My mom's cousins and friends might not have been cut down in their prime because they didn't see one hazard coming a few seconds too late.

Now, yeah the tech may be annoying. Yeah I may have to pay more to fix it when my kid spills Powerade on it.

But it costs a lot less than fixing someone else's car.

Or a medical bill for someone's whiplash.




Or a funeral


/rant over

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Can't you just...turn what you don't like off?

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Some of them. But it’d be nice to not have to pay for these features

Backup cameras are fine

Other shite gets old

He doesn’t want to pay for something he’s never going to use