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> and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks What's a 'digital gimmick'? Is stability control a gimmick? ABS? What about cruise control? Lane assist?
by outworlder 5y ago
> and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks
What's a 'digital gimmick'? Is stability control a gimmick? ABS? What about cruise control? Lane assist? Auto-breaking to avoid collisions?
If you are talking about things like touch screens to control basic functions, then it's understandable. Or maybe you want a car without GPS.
In general though, moving functions away from hardware makes things more reliable, not less. When was the last time you had to adjust your engine timing? Or disassemble a carburator to figure out issues, rather than plugging in a scanner and having the onboard computer tell you what's wrong.
- adamrezich 5y agofor at least my whole life until 2019, my dad would trade in his truck for a brand-new one every few years. he's the kind of guy who's excited by bells and whistles just for the sake of them, and he appreciated the new doodads with each new model... until 2019. the new truck that year was full of crap he has zero use for, like a 3G wifi hotspot. every few days after his purchase he went back to the dealership with some new problem with some part of the truck. typically this would only happen once every few years or months, but it happened several times in rapid succession over the course of a couple weeks. maybe my dad just got a fantastically unlucky lemon of a truck, but it's undeniable that feature creep increases points of failure.