Posted on 06/14/2026 9:29:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Two years ago, I rented a Tesla Model 3 for 1 day in order to drive it for the first time in my life and make a Tesla review from the perspective of a petrolhead. I ended up actually enjoying the driving itself, I hated the user interface, the buttonless screens and probably most of all I hated the fact that the car was constantly beeping. When I went over the speed limit, when I changed lanes without signaling, when I got too close to the edge of the road and so on. After fiddling with the screen and the menus I managed to turn off almost all the beeping sources except one. There was one beep that stayed until the end and I couldn’t do anything about it. The car would beep randomly from time to time without any associated message or warning on the screen. I returned the car without figuring out what it is. ... I was foolish enough to believe that’s a Tesla-only thing because Tesla’s are obnoxious tech-obsessed cars for tech-obsessed people who actually hate driving. I thought Toyota is an old-school car brand and there’s no way it would beep and annoy me like that. Well, I was wrong, beeping and backseat driving is not a Tesla thing, it’s now an industry thing
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I remember when a friend announced that he had purchased his LAST PICK UP! As a senior septuagenarian, with both my parents having made it well into their 90s, with two cars, we have and like a Honda and a Prius V. At least one more ride... For me a hybrid with a bit more room than the Prius V and hopefully FULL SELF DRIVING. My RT can be measured on a kitchen clock!!! Our daughter has a Genesis GV80. I like it, but too big and thirsty.
A GV70 hybrid is supposed to be out by next Christmas, HO-HO-HO.
My newest vehicle is thirty years old. I love to actually drive my truck and not just steer.
Listen for the word “tech” in car ads. It’s there and in one commercial it’s louder than the words around it.
Yeah, I remember when there was a clutch and no automatic transmission. You had to manually shift from low to 2d to 3d gear. And before that there were no headlights. You had animal oil lamps on your carriage.
Oh for the good old days.
Yeah, I turn most of that off in Settings. I keep where it beeps at you when it thinks you are going to hit something, but turned off where it started braking on its own.
You forgot the glory days of hand crank starting. Cars have never been the same since!
Drives me nuts when the car in front of me is turning right and I know they will soon be out of the way, but my car decides I am coming up on the car too fast and beeps, sometimes even braking, as if the car was going to stay going straight.
“In my day we didn’t have fancy engines, we had to use our feet, like Fred Flintstone, and that’s the way it was AND WE LIKED IT!”
My neighbor Mark buys and restores ~40-year-old pick-up trucks.
The way speed limits change so much, how does the car know when you are over the limit???
I don’t understand the tech in cars. The other day my car started playing a video of a kid being runover while I was backing up. /s
‘68 Dodge Power Wagon.
90% of the “mileage” is on our property. :-)
Ya wanna screw up the next generation ?
Re+introduce standard shifting!
Go back to....three on the tree!
No button shifting, hands and clutch pedal.ake thee tachometer (that round hing with a swinging pointer) optional.
Come back to a straight six.
Remember how easy it was to check fluids, change everything affected by a tune up?
Male it cool to get dirty playing with your vehicle.
And don’t forget no electric starters. You used a crank and didn’t have to worry about a dead battery.
My 2018 has adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. It makes long trips on interstates much less taxing. I’ve been watching YouTube videos of Tesla’s Full Self Driving and have to admit it looks pretty good.
My next vehicle will be a 1970s truck with standard transmission and roll down windows.
With Tesla and their Full Self Driving feature, they have gotten rid of the driver and made everyone in the car a passenger.
My SUV has a camera on the passenger side rear view mirror that reads the speed limit signs. If I’m on cruise control as soon as I pass a sign for a lower speed limit it automatically adjusts the car to that speed. Kind of annoying really.
Thanks...I had no idea...
A Miata with a manual transmission. Six speed would be best.
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