People Unload Their “Everyone’s Fave, Not Mine” Thoughts
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New vehicles. I want no power accessories and no touchscreen nonsense in my vehicles.
My truck is about to turn 20. Other than the fact that I question its reliability for long trips a little, I like driving it more than the new car we bought for my wife, which is the nicest car I’ve owned. My truck has the least amount of controls it could possibly have and still functions. I don’t have to search for something, it’s one of the few controls that’s there. It has every control you need in a car… turn signal, AC, widows, gears, wipers, radio, steering, cruise control, parking brake…
The new car has knobs that I believe are just open panels full of other knobs. Lane sensing, collision detection, in-seat testicular warmth settings, auto lights, manual lights, fog lights, multi-section climate control, GPS, ejector seat (probably, I’m too scared to touch that one), multiple LED screens, backup cam, backup cam settings, backup cam settings… It’s a car, and it looks like a NASA launch control console. I hit a button by accident, because there were 5000 of them, and it took me 5 minutes to turn my brights off. The lever that controls the lights tilts, swivels, pans, zooms, rotates and has 82 buttons on it.
There are 97 different buttons near where the one button to open and close the sunroof should be. There should be one. ONE. Open/close. But no, it has settings. I could drive my truck blindfolded with a good navigator. You could drive my truck without ever having been in my truck before. You could put your cell phone in the convenient window mount and have navigation you wouldn’t have to read anything to use it. Once I complete my second bachelor’s degree knob turning and touchscreen navigation, maybe I’ll be able to change the radio station, since out of all the knobs, there’s not one for that.
