[MarlonRando]

I hate modern cars. I’ll be driving down the freeway and suddenly the panel turns orange and starts flashing and I’ll think I’m about ready to explode, and it will say that I’m low on windshield wiper fluid or some stupid nonsense like that. Cars today just have too many sensors.

[Resolute Conservative]

The flashing lights is your wallet being emptied for the cost of car that has unnecessary crap you don’t need but still pay for.

[Cold Heart]

And some of those sensors will kill your engine if they feel like it.

Smart cars will advance to where they will not just monitor where you go but control where and when you can go somewhere.

[TexasGator]

“suddenly the panel turns orange and starts flashing and I’ll think I’m about ready to explode, and it will say that I’m low on windshield wiper fluid or some stupid nonsense like that. “

Silly post. That is not how it displays.

[Gen.Blather]

A friend bought a new Toyota hybrid. Initially, he loved it. But it has so many tech features he found problematic he began to not like it. Then, while pulling out into traffic he accidentally touched the brake while accelerating. The car bricked halfway across the road and traffic in both directions did an emergency stop to avoid hitting him. The dash turned red and told him he had the brake and accelerator on at the same time. This “safety” feature almost got him into an accident.

I put the spare tire on my 2017 Ford Expedition, and it didn’t have a working pressure sensor. The truck notified my, blocking all other data. I reset the alarm. It brought back the alarm every few minutes. Why did it override my reset every time? It’s like driving with a hysterical person beside me. I had to have all the tires dismounted and the pressure sensor batteries replaced. What a waste of time and money.

I recently inherited a 2010 Honda CRV with 44k miles. I was besieged by people who had newer cars wanting to purchase it. “Why? You have a new car.” This is an encapsulation of the reasons. “Yes, but we’d rather have something without software and a three hundred horsepower 1.5liter that is going to fail sooner rather than later.”

[Joe 6-pack]

In 2017 I bought a 2018 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk. With the advanced four wheel drive system it was about as high tech a vehicle as you could get. After reviewing the manual, I was consciously aware that it had a blind spot sensor and how it worked, and still the first time I was driving down the highway and a bright yellow triangle appeared in my side view mirror it was somewhat disconcerting...bright yellow triangles are never good. At first it took some getting used to, then I became more intrigued. I'd deliberately "test" it by passing people, watching them in my mirror and thinking how cool it was how that triangle would light up as soon as the other car disappeared into my blind spot.

Then...I became overly reliant on the damn thing, and found myself just checking for the triangle before changing lanes rather than actually looking at the side view mirror to see if there was a vehicle that was not in my blindspot. One time I was on the interstate do around 75-ish. I put on my turn signal to move into the passing lane, checked for the yellow triangle which wasn't there and started to drift into the passing lane when a car that was right there hit their horn and got my attention. Had I actually looked in my side view mirror and not just checked for the yellow triangle, I would have seen him.

So now, I just drive like I used to before I ever had the blind spot sensor, and turn my head to check my blind spot, just like I always did. That's just one of a myriad of features that we pay for that I'd just as soon not have.

[Fledermaus]

Yet it can’t tell you if a brake light goes out.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Get an Ineos Grenadier.

All manual, physical, analog switches.

Aluminum body on frame tank. Coil over shock suspension.

About as simple as a modern car can come.