Cars Are Fast Becoming Dystopian Prison Pods...(Fuxk Subaru)
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Best solution is don't buy a new car. Repair your old one. Go to dealers and look at cars then tell them why you won't buy a new one. Vote with your wallet. Thats what they understand.
Kit cars. The new auto company Slate also looks promising.
Or wait for Cuba to fall; if the lore is accurate, we'll have a good supply of classics and spare parts manufacturers.
I don't buy cars with any gimmicky rubbish in, even if I have to buy older high mileage ones and at some point replace the engine. I tell my car what to do, NOT the other way round.
The nice things about older cars is that you can still work on the engines and change the oil with relative ease.
And it's much easier putting in a kick ass sound system.....
u/#popcornjones
Just an observation...Consciousness from the 40k view...Look at all these little things that piss you off and give you angst...it adds up...Reach a "higher state of fuck it" - You are NOT getting out of here alive...None of us have very much time left here...Put everything into perspective...Lighten your stress burden - Remember you're God's kid here...only for a little while...
"The welfare of humanity has always been the alibi of tyrants." Christine Anderson MEP
Every time.
My fucking 2023 ram stopped itself the other day halfway through pulling into a lane. Engine shit off, e brake applied. Thank God the semi driver heading right for me had enough reaction time to slow down. Took me several cycles of button pushing to get the fucking thing started and out of ebrake. Hate this shit and that's twice it's happened now. Last time could have cost me my life. (Yes, I hand to change my drawers)
Worse than our car, Honda CRV, while on the highway, a message pops up that says “driver attention alert”. When it happens, I’m fully awake, fully conscious of the road and do not need a break. It doesn’t stop the car like the Subaru in the article, but it’s a bit annoying. If I was dozing off, that would be a welcome message, but not when I’m fully aware of the road conditions.
The older ones are using a timer to determine the “suggested” break timing. I just ignore them and take a break when I feel like it. My oldest car, 2002, doesn’t do any of that. Worse to me is the lane avoidance warning, especially on 2 lane winding roads. I just turn them all off.
We have a 2013 Escape. I swear it was designed by chicks hired for DEI.
It has cross-traffic detectors. We live in a rural area. It's constantly misidentifying the grass and trees at the side of the road as cross traffic. We have to turn the damned thing off on every drive.
The exterior lights are automatic, but the controls are completely hidden from the driver's view, so if you need to manually turn them on, you can't see them without opening the door and looking around the steering wheel. The little lights are illuminated but the control itself is not - you have to feel for it.
God help you if you want to dim the dash lights at night. Trying to find the controls is an exercise in dangerous futility.
Some of the displays are polarized, so if you wear sunglasses, the polarizations cancel out and they're just black.
It's AWD, but if either axle is on a slippery surface, it refuses to transfer the drive to the other one and you're basically stuck.
The wiring is very tasty for critters and there are multiple pathways which mice can get in. I had to retrofit metal screens in multiple places (4, to be exact) to keep the critters out of the car.
Did I mention the transmission just up and died one day, luckily with 100 miles still on the warranty?
It was an OK car when we lived in the city, I guess. I don't think I'll ever buy another car built after about 2002...
If I recall correctly, there was legislation that passed recently for all 2027 vehicles to have this same technology. https://www.motor1.com/news/794316/new-cars-mandate-impaired-driver-detection-delay/
And I wouldn’t doubt that information is fed back to the manufacturer, who collects that data and then sells it to insurance companies. Talk about surveillance.
There's a great video with that farmer grandma and son involving getting out of the path of a tornado. The car won't start because the driver isn't calm. This is beyond stupid.
Take it from someone in the collision industry, if the cars don’t watch the road, no one will. People do everything except drive when behind the wheel. They can’t go 10 minutes without looking at their phones. Subaru is trying to keep people from crashing, but its how whackos in control will pervert it and use it that is the problem. All this crash mitigation tech hasn’t stopped the crashes, it’s just made it more expensive/difficult to repair. You’ve probably seen this in your premiums. Avg claim severity 6 years ago was about $2600. Now it’s closer to $5000.
I have a similar situation. I turn off driver monitoring and auto start/stop every time I use the vehicle.
I’m considering an experiment to cover the sensors
I'm glad I have a 2003 and 2005 car. No worries about it shutting off automatically, unless it's an engine problem.
The beginning of the end for subaru