Too many gadgets

[David64]

New trucks have too many new fangled gadgets in them. 

When I put my truck in reverse yesterday all it showed on that little screen was a guy getting ran over by a truck in the Wal Mart parking lot.

[Tecate]

Bahahaha!! Exactly!

Too much electronics as well. Sensors, ignition coils and all that crap!
My Ram 5.7L has 16 f’in spark plugs for god’s sake.

Every time the check engine light comes on it could be one of 2 thousand fucking things!

Poor old girl has almost 300k km on her and I’ll have to replace her soon and I really don’t want to… damn

Tecate

[UltraBudgie]

[Bootless]

I bought a new car once
in the 80s.
It had a thing on the turn lever
called a cruise control.
So I set it.

After paying the ticket for failure to signal a turn
I went back to moving the lever by hand.

No more tickets.

It's like how the heck is that thing supposed to anticipate turns anyway?
Just a way to separate suckers from their money I guess.

[Sirius]

Self gratification, guilt brings envy so you demand more. I bought this car and paid allot, check it out, it has gadgets. Very cool ja ja ja

vroom vroom vroom

[ReturnofBroccoli]

I think most people buy vehicles for practical purposes and conveniences and a tiny percentage buys them for showing off because the average person cant afford a Ferrari

Then again, wtf do i know about most people

[argentus]

New trucks have too many new fangled gadgets in them. 

When I put my truck in reverse yesterday all it showed on that little screen was a guy getting ran over by a truck in the Wal Mart parking lot.

I hear you.   There are always going to be too many obstacles in your rear view mirror.   Best to focus on the forward.   

What I want is a new car that has manual windows, carburetors, stick shift, and ballistic glass.  I want the starter and alternator to be accessible.  I doan wan no focking spare tire stored under the car.  Nope.

[BeyondKnowledge]

I hear you.   There are always going to be too many obstacles in your rear view mirror.   Best to focus on the forward.   

What I want is a new car that has manual windows, carburetors, stick shift, and ballistic glass.  I want the starter and alternator to be accessible.  I doan wan no focking spare tire stored under the car.  Nope.

Power windows are nice on a cold damp morning. Like window wipers. The rest of the toys built in are mostly useless for a vehicle. You have a smartphone. That can handle all the communication and navigation you need without depending on the car to work.

[UltraBudgie]

what i like about cars now is that if you leave them for more than two weeks, the battery is dead when you try to start them

i wonder why that is

[argentus]

Power windows are nice on a cold damp morning. Like window wipers. The rest of the toys built in are mostly useless for a vehicle. You have a smartphone. That can handle all the communication and navigation you need without depending on the car to work.

Imagine, if you will, a higher level CME, an X-class flare, or an electromagnetic pulse.  Are either of these things probable?   Well, maybe more so than in previous years.   Either of these things could knock out your conventional car, your power source, your internet, your life.  Put you back to the stone age, without a clue how to survive.   A sobering thought, no?

So, imagine having a retro car without computer chips, that had a Millenial theft proof device -- a stick shift.  This vehicle could survive such a pulse and still keep on ticking.  Unfortunately, the fuel pumps that delivered petrol to such a car would fail in the event of the above pulse.  

I think we are far too dependent upon the 'net, the grid.   If you took out the grid in winter, hundreds of thousands of people in America would die.  This is where the U.S. is vulnerable.   

We should strive toward independence, starting with our cars.   I wish for a car that didn't have any chips.