I drove a Tesla (work related, not by choice) and you literally have to fucking scroll on a touch screen to change gears (forward, reverse, park). Ignoring all of Elon musks other insane fascist bullshit, that alone deserves him a carbon fiber submarine ride to check out the titantic before it falls apart.
I’ve driven a bunch of other fancy high end electric cars with an over reliance of touch screens for work, and none of them gave me such visceral hatred as that. And the steering wheel is not a safe design compared to normal steering wheels, less places to grip. Fuck I hate that asshole.
I don’t give a shit about electric cars anymore, I’m just not going to have a car. They’ll get me back when the gear shifter is some kind of a jacknife switch that throws sparks whenever I put it into drive.
I’m gonna be in the market for a new (to me) car soon and I’m looking to get something ~2015 and older because I hate all the new computer tech. All I want is Bluetooth, other than that I want a normal car not something designed by some dumb tech bro who’s never driven a car in their life.
IMO that tech shit is planned obsolescence. I’d rather my car become obsolete by rust than get fucking bricked by an update I didn’t ask for. Let alone a future government having a back door into it to use as a kill switch and make the car inoperable because how dare I wrong think being anti capitalist, or even if it were on a loan a loan company having the ability to kill it remotely if I run into bad times and miss a payment. Surveillance capitalism freaks me out and needs to stay the fuck out of my car.
I’m lucky enough that I’ve got a barebones 2003 that still runs great. Analog gauges, double DIN radio slot, and nothing else. Every time I get in a modern car, it’s information overload.
I don’t need a ball coddler. I need 4 wheels and a reliable engine.
Cars should be treated a lot more like factory equipment and a lot less like a living room on wheels.
The tradeoff is safety though. Surviving a crash without death or major injuries is much more likely in modern cars. ESP systems also decrease the likelihood of crashing in the first place.
Oh totally. I don’t doubt increased survivability with all the additional safety features in modern cars compared to old ones.
However, all the other little stuff that has nothing to do with safely delivering passengers have made them demonstrably more distracting, most notably the touch screen. Me, personally, I’d prefer to avoid the crash entirely.
You can take a car from the early 2000’s, add the extra airbags and crumple zone tech that we’ve developed over the years, and you’d have a much safer car than what they’re putting out now.
I drove a Tesla (work related, not by choice) and you literally have to fucking scroll on a touch screen to change gears (forward, reverse, park). Ignoring all of Elon musks other insane fascist bullshit, that alone deserves him a carbon fiber submarine ride to check out the titantic before it falls apart.
I’ve driven a bunch of other fancy high end electric cars with an over reliance of touch screens for work, and none of them gave me such visceral hatred as that. And the steering wheel is not a safe design compared to normal steering wheels, less places to grip. Fuck I hate that asshole.
I don’t give a shit about electric cars anymore, I’m just not going to have a car. They’ll get me back when the gear shifter is some kind of a jacknife switch that throws sparks whenever I put it into drive.
I’m gonna be in the market for a new (to me) car soon and I’m looking to get something ~2015 and older because I hate all the new computer tech. All I want is Bluetooth, other than that I want a normal car not something designed by some dumb tech bro who’s never driven a car in their life.
IMO that tech shit is planned obsolescence. I’d rather my car become obsolete by rust than get fucking bricked by an update I didn’t ask for. Let alone a future government having a back door into it to use as a kill switch and make the car inoperable because how dare I wrong think being anti capitalist, or even if it were on a loan a loan company having the ability to kill it remotely if I run into bad times and miss a payment. Surveillance capitalism freaks me out and needs to stay the fuck out of my car.
I’m lucky enough that I’ve got a barebones 2003 that still runs great. Analog gauges, double DIN radio slot, and nothing else. Every time I get in a modern car, it’s information overload.
I don’t need a ball coddler. I need 4 wheels and a reliable engine.
Cars should be treated a lot more like factory equipment and a lot less like a living room on wheels.
The tradeoff is safety though. Surviving a crash without death or major injuries is much more likely in modern cars. ESP systems also decrease the likelihood of crashing in the first place.
Oh totally. I don’t doubt increased survivability with all the additional safety features in modern cars compared to old ones.
However, all the other little stuff that has nothing to do with safely delivering passengers have made them demonstrably more distracting, most notably the touch screen. Me, personally, I’d prefer to avoid the crash entirely.
You can take a car from the early 2000’s, add the extra airbags and crumple zone tech that we’ve developed over the years, and you’d have a much safer car than what they’re putting out now.
I don’t own a car and I feel so incredibly privileged. Whatever shit they do with cars, I just don’t care. And I don’t need to pay for it.