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"What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 12:30 PM
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out on the Googly today. For me, that answer is so easy, it's like cheating. I would HAPPILY do without that annoying feature that shuts off the engine at every stop. My vehicle has a button to disable that feature, but you have to hit the button every time you first crank up. I wish they had just put in a "remember last position" for that button. I would NEVER use that feature if I could avoid it.
How about you all? Any other features that are your pet peeve?
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 12:38 PM
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my Camry has a few years on it. The auto climate control seems heck bent on setting the recirc on in hot weather. I'd like to leave it vented so the car might not get quite as hot. I realize the car will still be hot on warm days but not as hot if the vent feature was engaged when it shuts off
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Orange Phenom [14647]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 12:49 PM
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Bluetooth! Whenever I drive Ms. The Mole's car (a rare event...we regularly take my truck) her phone will ring and scare the BeJesus out of me!
It always seems to happen when I am driving into an intersection.
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:15 PM
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Check the front seat or the rear seats for passengers!
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:19 PM
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Until they get the timing figured out on red lights, I have no problem with not burning gas whilst waiting 8 minutes for a light to change and there is no cross traffic
Never had a car with a heated steering wheel so I guess I wouldn’t miss that if it went away.
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Ring of Honor [21072]
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Problem with the auto off feature is
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:32 PM
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that you need to replace the battery even more often than a normal car, erasing any fuel savings.
My wife's GMC Acadia has the feature and we need to get a new expensive battery almost yearly.
Also, the radio volume does not change when the engine stops which is also annoying.
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TigerNet Immortal [170247]
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Weird
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:38 PM
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My 10 year old Honda has only needed a new battery once
Maybe your bigger AC drains it too much?
You are right about the volume though
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Re: Weird
Aug 18, 2024, 12:03 PM
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Same here. My wife's girlfriend has a 2018 Honda Pilot with idle-stop. I do the routine maintenance on it for her and it still has the factory battery.
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Clemson Conqueror [11150]
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^^^^^^^^ this one^^^^^^^^^^^
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:21 PM
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Would trade it for the one that backs up automatically with a trailer.
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:32 PM
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I had a Buick with the start/stop hybrid system when I lived near Chicago and it didn'tbother me saving gas. However, there were times sitting in gridlock when the engine would start on it's own because the battery had nearly drained. At the time, mine didn't give me an option to shut to disable the system because there were times when I would have.
But today the useless tech is in my Chevy truck. I don't need to have to clear a message on the touch screen about the hazards of using electronic devices when driving eveytime I start the truck and have my phone with me.
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Orange Immortal [62831]
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Aug 17, 2024, 2:00 PM
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Our 2018 Honda CR V won't allow adjusting anything while the vehicle is in gear, that mean radio tone setting, seat adjustments, anything that may need your attention for a second. Another think that has chapped my A$$, why in the H&ll would the maker of Escort radar detectors would put how fast you're going on the front screen. Our vehicle has digital speedometer, and my wife can't see the speed I'm driving from the passenger seat and that great until I turn on the radar detector and there is my speed right on the face of it, and now the biotching starts about how fast I'm driving. It's better than having a cop standing at my window handing me a ticket, but why would Escort do such a dumb thing, I didn't it to show me speed, I bought to help keep the cop from handing me a ticket...
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Orange Blooded [2110]
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Aaah the Escort. I had one in the'80s.
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Aug 18, 2024, 9:35 AM
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Quit using it when "instant" radar became poular with law enforcement.
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Re: Aaah the Escort. I had one in the'80s.
Aug 18, 2024, 12:13 PM
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Gotta agree. Instant on radar basically turned every radar detector into a "ticket alert".
When GPS and mapping software became popular, I once suggested to Escort that they create their own map database with real-time radar locations from active detectors in peoples cars. Have an interface with the driver's cell phone to warn of an approaching radar. Waze has the same feature except it is based on user input, which isn't as reliable and requires user interaction.
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I dont see the point of that either
Aug 17, 2024, 9:08 PM
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A message to tell me not to be distracted that distracts me.
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Re: The Heads Up Display Showing On The Windshield ---
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:42 PM
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I like cool technology but I really need a clear view of the road. Don't need any weird glares and flashes going on to distract me on the windshield and mirrors.
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Orange Phenom [14198]
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That annoying strap that goes from your shoulder to the opposite hip
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:51 PM
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Gets in the way every time
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Orange Immortal [62831]
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Re: That annoying strap that goes from your shoulder to the opposite hip
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Aug 17, 2024, 2:08 PM
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I hate seat belts also, but they have been proven to save more lives than not wearing them, so I buckle up as soon as I start my engine, and before I put it in a gear. Now I do keep a cheap box cutter where I can reach it, also with the box cutter is one of those punches that will easily break out the window. I would rather have those two things and never need them, than to need them and don't have either one...
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Campus Hero [13635]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 1:54 PM
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My observation is that most people don’t need windows, they’re not looking through them anyway.
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Orange Immortal [62831]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 2:15 PM
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Nobody could drive without the front windshield, but I do know what you're referring to, idiots that never look behind or beside them. They are the ones that mirrors are totally useless to them!!!
My biggest complaint is with the Adaptive Cruise Control doesn't know a red light from a green light!!!
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Campus Hero [13635]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 7:06 PM
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I beg to differ. My last major car wreck I was sitting at a Red Light and a car hit me from behind at 35 mph.
Maybe she was confused and was driving down the road looking out the rear window.
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All-In [11088]
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Radio always on?!?
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Aug 17, 2024, 2:37 PM
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I have to use the volume control to turn off the radio! Thanks for nothing Subaru!
Go Tigers
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Valley Legend [12728]
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Check the back seat for items......***
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Aug 17, 2024, 2:46 PM
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 3:13 PM
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76er®
There are devices that can be plugged into the harness behind the button that makes it remember the last position, like you are wanting. I have one for my Chyrsler minivan, but works for all Chrysler. Maybe you can find one for yours.
Example:
https://www.amazon.com/Eliminator-2018-2023-Wrangler-Engine-System/dp/B0BX5ZVXBK
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All-TigerNet [5822]
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Warnings for objects in front of your car
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Aug 17, 2024, 3:37 PM
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When you are in reverse.
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Athletic Dir [1135]
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I could do without....
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Aug 17, 2024, 9:11 PM
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...having to stop and pee about every 2-3 hours.
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Solid Orange [1342]
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Re: I could do without....
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Aug 18, 2024, 8:50 AM
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See your local urologist as long as his name is notford!
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Paw Master [16545]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 17, 2024, 9:11 PM
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Bluetooth. Sometimes it works as it should, sometimes it’ll aggravate the crap out of you.
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Game Changer [2045]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 18, 2024, 12:00 AM
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Stinkin’ automatic transmissions.
Think of all the accidents that would not occur because people couldn’t be on a phone texting and shifting gears at the same time, therefore forcing people to pay attention to the road.
Plus, if you don’t have the reflexes, coordination or mobility to drive a stick, then how can you be trusted to drive down the road at 80 miles an hour with other souls on the road with you.
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Solid Orange [1342]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 18, 2024, 8:56 AM
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You forgot about the Lucky Strike (union cigarettes) in the right hand!..remember the erroneous conclusion of the Framingham Study...they always had three cigarettes while eating Bacon & eggs...HOGS and chickens still got the original bad rap...still being mouthed today!
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Dynasty Maker [3267]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 18, 2024, 12:08 AM
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having to put in gasoline or charge it at a charging station
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GAS
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Aug 18, 2024, 12:16 AM
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I drive an electric, will never go back to combustion engines. There is nothing to fix except replacing tires, no oil changes, no transmission, never use the brakes except in emergencies, and it goes 0-60 in 3.9 seconds.
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Paw Master [17256]
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Too bad they only go 60 on the interstate.***
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Aug 18, 2024, 8:48 AM
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Re: Too bad they only go 60 on the interstate.***
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Aug 18, 2024, 11:41 AM
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lollers, I had more over 120, inside of 11 seconds. why do you constantly lie?
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Paw Master [17256]
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I know they are fast; thats why Im perplexed that Im always
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Aug 18, 2024, 1:49 PM
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passing teslas on the right.
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Re: GAS
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Do you also squat to urinate!
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Electric motors have superior torque to combustion
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Aug 18, 2024, 1:22 PM
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The thing pins me to my seat. If you had ever driven an electric car, you would want one.
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Orange Beast [6302]
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 18, 2024, 7:09 AM
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Take out the big screen and all the digital crap associated with it including the automatic shut off
And please put CD players back in
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Re: "What Useless Car Tech Could You Happily Live Without?" That was a headline
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Aug 18, 2024, 8:58 AM
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My Ford 150 has that. Bought an attachment that the guy put somewhere under the hood that effectively eliminates that hassle. It thinks the button is always “pressed”. Well worth the $95. That was pre-Biden inflation price anyway
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Orange Blooded [2110]
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The"fill washer fluid" light. I'm pretty sure
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Aug 18, 2024, 9:19 AM
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I can figure out when I've got no washer fluid. DEF for diesel.
Not tech, but I hate that oil filters are put inside the oil pan. That makes it a little too much for me to change the oil myself.
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Athletic Dir [1135]
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Car things I could do without
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Aug 19, 2024, 7:43 AM
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If you buy a new Corvette, an automatic transmission is the only option. That's just wrong. Kick it out of gear to blip the throttle at a light? Sigh.
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