Progress or stupidity? You decide...

[Dragline]

Yeah, the bells and whistles. Whistleblowers is more like it. Ford cars getting access to your texts and contacts. Cars ratting you out when you mash the throttle a tad. Maybe a hard brake or two and your Ins Co knows before your brakes cool.

 

Hard pass....

As an aside. I'm NOT against technology. But when it s used for nefarious purposes like it was prophesised. Well, I just cannot abide. My dream car is a 550SEL Benz. 85 or 86 ish. Lots of tech and advanced features on that car. BUT, it won't rat me out of I see a bit of open road and open it up for a mile or two and let the ponies loose. 

Edited Tuesday at 05:42 PM by Dragline

[peteski]

As my last post indicated I'm not a fan of all that technology in cars, but more and more even low-end new cars include all sorts of high-tech stuff in them.  Pretty soon there will be no escape.  Sure, you can get a vintage used car, but maintaining them will get more and more difficult.

Edited Tuesday at 07:46 PM by peteski

[sfhess]

I'd hate to see the cost of replacement headlights for my 2023 Outback.  They move when you steer the car.  It's interesting to see them move back and forth whenever I start the car.

[peteski]

8 hours ago, sfhess said:

I'd hate to see the cost of replacement headlights for my 2023 Outback.  They move when you steer the car.  It's interesting to see them move back and forth whenever I start the car.

Funny! What was old is new again.

Lights which were tied to steering were popular in higher end cars early in the 20th Century, and also in the '60s Citroen DS21 also had that feature.  There were probably others too.  But back then they used mechanical linkages tying them to the steering linkages where I suspect yours are driven by servo motors controlled by one of dozen of on-board computers.

Sounds like they are performing a selftest/calibration when you start the car.

[Brudda]

I just repaired an electric car yesterday and I will not say the brand but the taillamp assembly was just under $4000  . Gotta love new cars. And you wonder why your insurance premium is so high.