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Subject: Re: OT: Mini Rant About New Car
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 07:49:23 -0700
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On 8/1/2024 4:52 AM, JAB wrote:
> 
> Well our old one is finally on its last legs with what is probably a 
> dodgy alternator but they aren't quite sure and it's not really worth 
> possibly fixing it due to the age of the car vs. the cost. Kinda 
> annoying as although it's almost twenty years old it only has 50,000 
> miles on the clock. Enter stage left the used but only a year and a half 
> old one.
> 
> Feck me it's like sitting behind a computer with all the controls and 
> displays it has. The navigation, entertainment and communications 
> owner's manual is eighty pages long. Do the really think I'm going to 
> read all of that. The amusing part is that the standard owner's manual 
> spends four pages explaining how to put petrol in it. So someone is 
> going to understand all the complications of the location services but 
> doesn't know what that round flap is for.
> 
> On the plus side it does have some niceties such as displaying the 
> actual speed limit in case you've missed the sign, not having to take 
> the key out of your pocket to start it and the top of my list - user 
> profiles so you can have the wing mirrors and AC adjusted to how you 
> like them. Now if only we could get a toilet seat that does the same.
> 
> The less said about warning me that my small rucksack in the passenger 
> seat isn't wearing a seat belt the better. Oh and there's an app because 
> of course there is.

Re: The App.  That's so you can change settings on your car as you are 
driving illegally using your phone.  Because EVERYTHING is done via 
phone app now.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.