When I buy gas if the pump starts talking to me with the ads, I turn it off, pay my $2 or so, and drive to another station. And I will never knowingly buy any vehicle that thinks my driving experience is to be filled with their ad driven nonsense and data mining algorithms. It matters not whether its the OEM or Silicon Valley types responsible.
What irks me most is the number of marketing type people that think it is okay to cover every square inch of my life with ads. Who are these people? What kind of upbringing did they experience? Do they react with glee to every robo call they receive, to every stupid, insipid, lowest common denominator commercial on tv? Do they wander the world in search of quiets moments to pollute?
It all seems a terrible waste of human effort. The percentage of my purchases driven by any drive by ad is almost unmeasurable. And now because some consulting company thinks this will be a $750 billion dollar industry at some point, the battle rages.
A childhood friend patenented the led clock used in Fords from their inception until just a few years ago. He was a multimillionaire by 28.
Car stuff will make you rich.
I just want a trash compactor in my car .... come on tech wizards. Get real
Just bought a 2018 German sedan...so damn complex I’ll never learn how to do 10% of what it’s capable of doing.
Well said.
Can anyone else remember the days when a video screen in the driver’s visual range would have been unthinkable? When did that change?
I would like to see auto makers go back and introduce cars without electronics again, and include a do-it-yourself kit for repairs. Such a car would sell for under $5,000 and help out low-income workers.
It must be noted that the bigger screens, the more gadgetry, the more bells and whistle‘s, and the more electronic distractions that you have on a car will ultimately make it less safe. Whatever happened to the pure joy of driving an automobile? Without a dozen gadgets and gizmos?
What about looking at the road?
I’m booking my car in for a checkup. It is over ten years old, in good shape, and blessedly simple by 2019 standards. I want it to last. It has the little tv screen but that is only for the satellite radio and mechanical things. It doesn’t talk to me, show me episodes of Games of Thrones or try to sell me term life insurance at stop lights.
It amazes me that a new card has to come with a user manual about 500 pages long. It’s like the car companies discovered computers and rushed out to hire competent IT kids fresh out of college and turned them loose to cram as much apps into the car’s computer as possible.
The right to be left alone.
When you think about it that is the essence of freedom and conservatism.
Some years ago a VP of Procurement picked up his new lease car from security and he couldn’t start it, raised all kinds of hell until someone told him he had to step on the brake first then start it. Funny times.
Neither of my Toyotas how’s the screen, I have a 4Runner with a locker and a 2.5 inch Australian lift kit. And I have a tundra. Both of them have radios, and 6 disc changers. I’ve looked all through him and I don’t see a screen, when did they start adding that? I don’t want to watch TV in a car
I will never own a modern car or truck with any of the new technology. My 20 year old car drives and looks like new. Anything newer than that, I do not want.
7 cars here, not a one with a screen.
I can remember when turn on and tuning a car radio was as simple as adjusting two knobs. Now you have to learn to code to operate the car radio all while maintaining control of the car.
You are so right. At my local Speedway station in Wisconsin they had an ad using Scarlett Johansson to ask us to donate to Feed the Children fund. Scarlett give them some of your vast earnings, do not bother me.
My wife is usually a very patient and kind person. Not when it comes with invasive electronic nuances/nuisances in her home, car or ??!
She hated the cars that told us that our seat belts were not fastened. Our sons were very good at disabling that nuisance for her.
She has a 15 year old Lexus with minimal electronic nuances/nuisances. As long as it runs well and can be serviced by our old fashioned service man, she will keep it.
I have the first year Honda Ridge Line and it has even less
electronic nuances/nuisances.
I would like to have some type of simple backing up warning protection. We have idiots driving through parking lots like they are in an INDY 500 race.
What is interesting, even with the bare minimum of electronic nuances/nuisances in both cars, they come with two owner’s manuals. I find it easier and faster to Google what is wrong or what I want to do. (Of course in a parked car with the ignition turned off.)
If it’s gonna be legal to smoke pot every minute of your waking life and if illegals can get drivers’ licenses; I’d be willing to go Europe on this and completely ban it. People are already bad enough drivers and getting stupider by the day.
Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
What I would like to get is a short range GPS jammer. Just something I can turn on in a car and it would then have no idea where it is. I can turn off the GPS on my phone which it constantly complains about and every web site I visit thinks I am in Philadelphia.