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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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Tim Brooke Taylor, who was the one on the left, wrote the sketch.
If you saved your time slips, take an online test and see how they compare.
A friend who did well in club races failed his driving test!!! They said he needs an eye test.
Turns out he had become legally blind in one eye.
There are old ones and bold ones.
But not many that are old and bold.
(They tend to be road kill.)
Not too many twisting mountain roads here in FL, but still appreciate the handling.
Cheap fun on an early morning drive even in midsummer.
2024 Honda Accord Hybrid here:
1. i turned off less than useless lane warnings and road-sign recognition [which also put a speeding indicator on the speedometer] and
2. i REALLY like the side-view warnings that occur when a turn signal is used and a vehicle is in the adjacent lane
4. Finally got to where i really like the backup camera
3. braking warnings are OK
4. most of the other warning beeps are justified, like when the car is left turned on and existed with the doors shut [easy to do in a hybrid when the ICE is off] ...
MY NEWEST VEHICLE IS 47 YEARS OLD
THE OTHER ONE IS 50
when do you wanna sell me the fxr?
There is an entire industry to be made on retrofitting new cars and removing their modems and computers.
100-octane Av-gas that you are referencing is going away.
https://share.google/aimode/EDl64aYqwiEmjeEo8
Yep, just like calculators have lowered math skills.
My car is old enough to drink. My truck is old enough to vote. Not planning on replacing either one any time soon.
I have a 2009 beater. It has navi but has never been updated thus any road built since then that one is on shows us traveling through open fields. It’s quite amusing.
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.
I have a 2025 Lincoln Aviator. It’s basically a computer with a car attached.
Everybody gets an MGB.
Lucas electric here we come!
There are old ones and bold ones.
But not many that are old and bold.
My dad used to say that.
My reply is always the same...
Yeah...but then there’s Chuck Yeager
...I drive safe
I had a six speed diesel golf
played havoc with my arthritis.
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I dont know.
number 12 made me crack up!
No, you did not. Just broken bones.
“””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.”””
All of those warnings will be sent to your auto insurance company so they can appropriately increase your monthly payments.
Isn’t technology wonderful?
If you turn it off and it doesn’t warn you does it still get sent to the insurance company?
I have an ‘05 Buick. It has about the right amount of technology without that really ridiculous crap used nowadays. The main reason i got it was for the 3800 engine,one of the best ever built, & it is no longer available.
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