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Sort of related but not exactly.. and I'm sorry if this is controversial... I just prefer my gas car over my electric car. My gas car is older, the cd play does

Sort of related but not exactly.. and I'm sorry if this is controversial... I just prefer my gas car over my electric car. My gas car is older, the cd play doesn't work however the radio does. I could replace it. I just don't care enough and prefer the randomness of the radio. My electric has mp3, satellite radio etc. Don't know if its nostalgia or what I've just grew up using but yea.. I hate my electric car.

brookside 9y ago
I like elemental cars without bloated features as well, but most new cars both ICE and electric have screens and the like. I don't think this is unique to EVs.
- ReinholdNiebuhr 9y ago
  Fair. But that's not totally why I dislike my electric car (Nissan). I mention the modern stuff just to highlight the car has significantly better entertainment systems. The nissan compared to the gas (a porsche) is an unfair fight. However I haven't been impressed with tesla when test driving them as well. It's the drive, idk. I know tesla is trying to solve that but so far I haven't been impressed.
- icantdrive55 9y ago
  I have a feeling simple vechicles (one computer, and maybe a powertrain computer) will be coveted in the near future. I have a nineties dodge Dakota that I was going to just run into the ground. I never loved the truck, and used to think it was complicated to work on. After looking at new vechicles, the nineties cars, and trucks are comparatively simple. I grew up fixing my own cars, and couldn't imagine paying someone to work on my vechicles. I don't like the complexity of the newer vechicles I'm looking at. The wealthy will have no problem having a dealership spend 3-hours calibrating the sensors on a bumper, at $240/hr. I couldn't imagine spending so much. Even if I had the money spending $2400 to replace a bumper is just crazy. (A buddy of mine called me up, and let the price of his bumper replacement slip out. I told him they must have done more. Well, I looked up his make/model, and that is roughly the going rate. And yes, it went right on his credit card.)
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station. You know, where the songs that are new and currently stuck in your head play like... 70% of the time, and then the other 30% it's picking older stuff you love? Most music player shuffle options are pretty basic, and I definitely jump over to the radio at times, despite having my entire music library stored in my car.
- humanrebar 9y ago
  > I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station. I can't stand ads anymore.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    The funny thing is, I now have enough ad free content that I start to miss references because I'm not getting as many ads. Which is to say, I don't really mind some ads here and there, and I can always switch stations during long ad blocks.

brookside 9y ago

I like elemental cars without bloated features as well, but most new cars both ICE and electric have screens and the like. I don't think this is unique to EVs.

ReinholdNiebuhr 9y ago
Fair. But that's not totally why I dislike my electric car (Nissan). I mention the modern stuff just to highlight the car has significantly better entertainment systems. The nissan compared to the gas (a porsche) is an unfair fight. However I haven't been impressed with tesla when test driving them as well. It's the drive, idk. I know tesla is trying to solve that but so far I haven't been impressed.
icantdrive55 9y ago
I have a feeling simple vechicles (one computer, and maybe a powertrain computer) will be coveted in the near future. I have a nineties dodge Dakota that I was going to just run into the ground. I never loved the truck, and used to think it was complicated to work on. After looking at new vechicles, the nineties cars, and trucks are comparatively simple. I grew up fixing my own cars, and couldn't imagine paying someone to work on my vechicles. I don't like the complexity of the newer vechicles I'm looking at. The wealthy will have no problem having a dealership spend 3-hours calibrating the sensors on a bumper, at $240/hr. I couldn't imagine spending so much. Even if I had the money spending $2400 to replace a bumper is just crazy. (A buddy of mine called me up, and let the price of his bumper replacement slip out. I told him they must have done more. Well, I looked up his make/model, and that is roughly the going rate. And yes, it went right on his credit card.)

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station. You know, where the songs that are new and currently stuck in your head play like... 70% of the time, and then the other 30% it's picking older stuff you love? Most music player shuffle options are pretty basic, and I definitely jump over to the radio at times, despite having my entire music library stored in my car.

humanrebar 9y ago
> I've never found a shuffle mechanic that works as well as the radio station. I can't stand ads anymore.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  The funny thing is, I now have enough ad free content that I start to miss references because I'm not getting as many ads. Which is to say, I don't really mind some ads here and there, and I can always switch stations during long ad blocks.