Give me a 90s shitbox with modern safety features and sure, bluetooth for music and podcasts, and I am set. In fact at this point I would pay extra for that because it doesn't exist and I want it more than the shit that's out there.
Shit i dont even want the safety features. Lane departure warning? Automatic braking? Lane collision alert? Bunch of hippity hoppity bullshit theyve added to make vehicles more complicated and expensive.
I have a 2023 car that does not have lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane collision alert, or any other safety features other than blind spot lights in the rearview mirrors and a high speed warning that you can set yourself (or turn it off entirely).
My car does.not.give.a.fuck if you want to yeet yourself into an overpass wall or abruptly whip the vehicle directly into the lane next to you which just happens to be currently occupied with another vehicle.
I get into a rental and I feel like I've been put in the vehicular version of training wheels. Changing lanes? Seat buzzes. Slow down too slowly? Car slams on the brakes. Cross over the line on an empty road because you don't wanna run over the dead skunk? Dingdingding and you have to fight the fucking steering wheel.
Like holy shit can I JUST DRIVE THE CAR?
edit: Obviously it does have things like seatbelts, all the airbags, backup camera, and so forth. I just don't have anything on my car that actively fights me for control with the vehicle or nags me if I'm doing something it doesn't like.
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u/EternalNewCarSmell 10h ago
fr this is a fucking appliance
Give me a 90s shitbox with modern safety features and sure, bluetooth for music and podcasts, and I am set. In fact at this point I would pay extra for that because it doesn't exist and I want it more than the shit that's out there.