Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!

[Runner]

I think some manufacturers addressed this button issue by making the infotainment screens so large it's like I'm sitting in my living room on a lazy boy watching the tv when I should be focusing on driving also brings up another unproven theory of mine but due to large infotainment screens I feel auto manufacturers had to make various self braking, etc safety contraptions.

That's one reason I keep my screen black most of the time.

 

[lman]

Newer vehicles the Auto setting for heating/cooling. Set the temperature and you don't need to make adjustments on the road.

 

[Eagle1]

Newer vehicles the Auto setting for heating/cooling. Set the temperature and you don't need to make adjustments on the road.

Yeah maybe by yourself but add wife with hot/cold flashes you fiddle all day.

 

[John0829]

Yeah maybe by yourself but add wife with hot/cold flashes you fiddle all day.

Not if you Super Glue the controls

 

[3930dave]

I think some manufacturers addressed this button issue by making the infotainment screens so large it's like I'm sitting in my living room on a lazy boy watching the tv when I should be focusing on driving also brings up another unproven theory of mine but due to large infotainment screens I feel auto manufacturers had to make various self braking, etc safety contraptions. Cuz I think some drivers become so engrossed in the giant flat screens on there dash they probably aren't doing what I consider driving. I remember decades ago when there was public service messages not to talk on cell phones when driving, eventually turned into no texting and driving now trucks including my 2016 Sierra has voice texting where it can read texts and you are capable of texting responses using you voice. Which after 10 yrs of ownership of my truck I still can't utilize that feature nor do I want to. Voice text.

Recently watched a Magnus Walker video.... known builder, air-cooled Porsches. Clip of him driving.... "Why would this car need a radio ?"

Gearheads get that ^, many don't today, and want to be Infotained. Distraction, Surveillance, take your pick..... fairly early cell-phone studies were finding that EVEN WITH hands-free, crash rates were higher. My theory.... although it is very out of fashion today, face-to-face conversation gives you many sub-channels of information about the other person (whether you realize it or not), which, lacking that, your cranium reflexively allocates much more processing power to the remote audio conversation.

Rgds, D.

 

[jjeff]

That's one reason I keep my screen black most of the time.

Unfortunately I can't listen to the radionif it's blacked out. Nor do I have the patience or skill set to black it out minus problaby pulling a fuse or something perfectly content with a small screen even with cheaters to operate radio and occasionally display a map of where I'm going. Btw it took me five years using my current truck before I consistently figured out how to display maps thru android Auto on screen .

 

[3930dave]

That's one reason I keep my screen black most of the time.

IIRC, old Saabs (analog Instrument panel) had a nightime feature where only the Speedo was lit. Presumably alarms would still come up as needed..... but driver-distraction/visual clutter was recognized, long before cell phones came along.....

Rgds, D.

 

[jjeff]

Wonder how many new generations of drivers can plan a route using paper maps if they still even make them?

 

[3930dave]

Newer vehicles the Auto setting for heating/cooling. Set the temperature and you don't need to make adjustments on the road.

Walked into my buddy's shop years ago.... he had a mid-size GM CUV with the interior pretty much totally gutted. When I asked, Wiskey Tango, he said "replacing HVAC door-motors".

Then, went on to say........ if you keep a vehicle long, best thing you can do is turn OFF the Auto HVAC. Take a pop-can, start flexing it...... cheap plastic door motors last a bit longer (past Warranty), but, same idea....

Buy new, dump a few years later.... not an issue.

Rgds, D.

 

[jjeff]

Know I'm thinking can you be deemed partially at fault only cuz you disabled some safety contraptions that may have prevented or minimized an accident but who's to say using all the safety contraptions you disabled wouldn't cause or involve an accident with a different driver same location? Definitely foresee a accident ending up in court by ambulance chasers due to this.