I recently bought an early 2000’s Honda for my daily commuter specifically to avoid the hyperactive electronics of a newer vehicle. The only time it beeps is if I don’t have the seatbelt fastened and it’s just one beep. It was a super low mileage one owner (little old lady) vehicle, so it feels like a new car but without the new car annoyances.
I recently bought an early 2000’s Honda for my daily commuter specifically to avoid the hyperactive electronics of a newer vehicle.
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A year ago, I leased a new car. A week later I got a call from the dealer asking how I liked it... told him that I totally hated it and if I wanted to sit in a constant surveillance machine that drove me instead of me driving it, I would have hired a graduate from a security company that did babysitting on the side to chauffeur me around.
Recently I rented a car for a week and the agency gave me an Audi. Totally drove me nuts... it couldn’t go half a mile without it putting up an alert in the middle of the dash telling me to “HOLD THE WHEEL!” or something like that. Took me a while, but I figured out what was going on... I was on a straight road and if it detected no movement on the steering wheel, it sent out the alert. I was going about 350 miles and what it forced me to do was jiggle the steering wheel every 10 seconds or to avoid the alert. How stupid is that? Could it be turned off? I’m assuming very likely but I on a business trip in a hurry in a rental car and had better things to do than stop for a while to figure out how to do that.