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by yotamoron 1156 days ago
Finally, some sense.

Personally, I want a car with as little interaction as possible. Sometimes I feel like a machine operator and not just a driver, especially when it's raining or when I need to defrost the windshield - constant hassling with whatever just to make things work.

How the hell is this progress? I want a car that does all the simple things for me - turn on the wipers at the right speed when its raining, defrost the windshield, knows when to heat/cool the car etc etc. You know - just learn me and do it. This recent (10+ years) idea of adding more and more levers and buttons and cool screens to a car, to a point where it looks like an F-15 cockpit, might appeal to under-developed young males, but I really had enough. When I was younger, when you got into a new car, it took 2 minutes before you understood everything that needs to be understood and could safely driver with it. Now days you have to spend 10-15 minutes just to understand how to release the parking brake.