Newer Vehicles and Technology

Lois E. Winters said:
I never bothered with OnStar, to be honest, Beth.
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A lot of new vehicle "features" don't work without the subscription, Lois. Another money grab by GM. I've read that BMW required an $18/month subscription for the heated seats to work. Can you imagine? I think consumer backlash made them do away with that, though.
 
Lois E. Winters said:
I have owned umpteen cars in my lifetime. My faves are Caddies and Buicks. A friend who had a before buying my first new vehicle (and even tmotorcycle when I was a teenager offered to give me a ride on a nearby highway. Up the hill and down, he told my mom. Helmets were unheard of in those days. Well, she finally relented, and off we went. While I loved the wind in my hair and all that, we also picked up cinders and the like. So, a fun ride, but never again.

My son has a Subaru with all the bells and whistles. Frankly, it's annoying with all the dinging and pinging for every little thing in that car. So glad I no longer drive.
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Same here. I was 40 when I bought my first new vehicle (and I really should have stuck with used.) My father had old Nash Ramblers, a Simca, a Vauxhall, a few Nash Metropolitans,etc. So I did not grow up in a "new car every 2 years" household. I always bought used, always paid cash, and then upgraded when a better used car came along and I then sold the one I had. It makes a bigger cash difference when you live in a state that levies an annual Property Tax on the value of the vehicle...I always paid the minimum they could charge.

So I got to experience owning a '63 Lincoln, a '59 Austin Healey, an '81 Pontiac Grand Prix with t-tops, and a bunch of other unique vehicles that actually had character. I bought a '75 Vega station wagon with under 30,000 miles on it for $500 because the previous owner misdiagnosed a simple problem and was in the mood to get rid of it. I drove it for 5 years and never had a lick of problems with it.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Seriously, how stupid does a person have to be? I can't believe they'd trust such an imbecile to deliver packages.
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You wouldn't believe the stories I came across when searching for that Amazon driver pic. People driving their cars off the end of boat ramps, a guy driving his car across a beach and into the lake, and other retarded special needs behaviour. It's weird. You gotta wonder if they even look through the damned windshield.

I wonder if the GPS doesn't say "Keep Going Forward" and then "I Knew I Could Make You Do It!"
 
Beth Gallagher said:
It's GM's satellite connectivity system that tracks and reports accidents, GPS navigation, roadside assistance, etc. There are varying levels of coverage and associated monthly subscriptions.
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Who's thought that GM would be into AI? Thank you Beth for the info.
Years ago we have something like that, but I don't remember the name.
 
Don Alaska said:
The nav systems have helped me a lot in the past, but when driving through Honolulu, it had me trying to turn onto streets that didn't exist. I think they were discontinuous streets that were not in the nav system for some reason.
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I live in a rural county with a lot of gravel roads. When I first got my car, I would just drive to the middle of nowhere with no idea where I was, and then set my GPS to take me home "The Fewest Miles" versus "The Fastest Route." It was fun.
 
John Brunner said:
You wouldn't believe the stories I came across when searching for that Amazon driver pic. People driving their cars off the end of boat ramps, a guy driving his car across a beach and into the lake, and other retarded special needs behaviour. It's weird. You gotta wonder if they even look through the damned windshield.

I wonder if the GPS doesn't say "Keep Going Forward" and then "I Knew I Could Make You Do It!"
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Some dufus on Reddit recently was whining because he had backed into something because "the sensors in his car didn't alert." Everyone was trashing him for not turning his head around and using his own eyes.
 
Don Alaska said:
The nav systems have helped me a lot in the past, but when driving through Honolulu, it had me trying to turn onto streets that didn't exist. I think they were discontinuous streets that were not in the nav system for some reason.
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Don if that pasture was an old street the AI tried send us into, it must have been a Main St.
 
John Brunner said:
Same here. I was 40 when I bought my first new vehicle (and I really should have stuck with used.) My father had old Nash Ramblers, a Simca, a Vauxhall, a few Nash Metropolitans,etc. So I did not grow up in a "new car every 2 years" household. I always bought used, always paid cash, and then upgraded when a better used car came along and I then sold the one I had. It makes a bigger cash difference when you live in a state that levies an annual Property Tax on the value of the vehicle...I always paid the minimum they could charge.

So I got to experience owning a '63 Lincoln, a '59 Austin Healey, an '81 Pontiac Grand Prix with t-tops, and a bunch of other unique vehicles that actually had character. I bought a '75 Vega station wagon with under 30,000 miles on it for $500 because the previous owner misdiagnosed a simple problem and was in the mood to get rid of it. I drove it for 5 years and never had a lick of problems with it.
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John, I owned a Rambler at one point in my life and loved it.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
As far as I know, only one of our 5 kids can drive a standard.
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I miss it. My 1990 Volvo I hit a deer with had it, plus an electronic 5th gear overdrive. Much of the time driving around here I have my Mazda in manual mode. It's not the same experience, but I like winding it out on these country roads. I do know that if I had a manual transmission, my gas mileage would probably go down 'cause I'd be so squirrely .
 
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