What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Fuddyduddy1952]

And that's what prompted auto-on headlights.

You shouldn't have to be bothered with driving and having to be aware of the conditions.

Smart cars, trucks, TVs, phones, computers, clothes washers...etc., etc.
"Smart" everything...stupid people

 

[garry1p]

I ain't stupid, but I do wonder how in the world I got along without all the "Smart" stuff.

Just imagine going hunting and never get lost with GPS.

 

[Eagle1]

I ain't stupid, but I do wonder how in the world I got along without all the "Smart" stuff.

Just imagine going hunting and never get lost with GPS.

Heck here they get lost with GPS...

 

[Jstpssng]

Just imagine going hunting and never get lost with GPS.

I keep my GPS turned off when I'm hunting. I work with that technology all week. Using it for recreation just turns my fun into work.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

This vehicle automation and widespread dependence on nannies makes me wonder how people go about driving a stick shift.

Do they just stay in 1st gear, or cuss and moan every time they need to shift?

 

[CalG]

I think you know the answer to that.

At our town's transfer station it's self-sort with recyclables. Bins for plastic (separate bins for type 1 & 2, no other types accepted), steel cans, aluminum cans/foil, glass, newspaper, cardboard.
Never fails, steel cans mixed in with the aluminum, cans mixed in with the glass, type 1 & 2 plastic intermixed. Keeps the attendant busy keeping it properly sorted out.
Personally, I don't think it's that hard but it appears beyond the skillset of many.

Saving the world!

One plastic bottle at a time.

 

[CalG]

This vehicle automation and widespread dependence on nannies makes me wonder how people go about driving a stick shift.

Do they just stay in 1st gear, or cuss and moan every time they need to shift?

I bought a 2021 Toyota Tacoma pickup. It was the only small truck available with a stick.

It keeps me paying attention....

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Heck here they get lost with GPS...

Driving through Texas a few years ago GPS sent me down a dirt road, beside a mobile home and across a pasture.

 

[jjeff]

There's hardly any automotive manufacturers that offer manual transmissions anymore besides a few up optioned sporty models. All entry level option stripped 4 bangers now have automatics In The US I believe. Read one article awhile back one manufacture claimed it was so existing safety features could be easily integrated on these entry level compacts. I don't see many not exposed to driving a manual transmission able to get it to move without smoking the clutch anyway. Sucks to be one of those people like me that could care less for all but the most basic of options, actually enjoys driving a 5 or 6 speed, and doesn't like the latest and greatest. If I find an old rav 4, crv or even a cross trek with a manual I might be interested cuz most are AWD and the kids, getting older I want them to learn to drive a manual transmission. Maybe even be there 1st car. My current beater I'm hesitant to fill it up cuz if it dies I'm not putting any money into it to keep it on the road despite my backwoods hackery it's one fix it ticket for a cracked windshield away from the junkyard.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I've driven a manual so many years I don't even think about shifting.

 

[garry1p]

I saw on TV at least twice where car jacker's jacked a straight shift and didn't know how to drive it.
I think one of them was a Corvette.

 

[WinterDeere]

I keep my GPS turned off when I'm hunting. I work with that technology all week. Using it for recreation just turns my fun into work.

Agreed. I've always gravitated away from tech in my personal pursuits, probably in part because I work in technical profession all week:

1. My house was built in the early 1700's, and although we have indoor plumbing and a modern kitchen, it's kept relatively original.
2. I heat my home mostly with firewood. Satisfies the inner-caveman, and cheaper than a gym membership, until you figure in the costs of the orthopedist you may need later.
3. When getting back into boating after a many-years break, I chose to sail in a racing class that prohibits the use of GPS or communication devices on the race course.
4. My shop is filled with vintage woodworking machinery, and even those get favored less than hand-powered tools, when I can manage it.
5. I only ever bought manual transmission cars, until the point they became completely unavailable in each of the body types our life requires (e.g. sedan, wagon, suv, pickup).

Although if I'm being honest, most of this is done out of some stupid romantic idea that "life was simpler" in the old days, rather than "technology is work". I know life was almost certainly not simpler for our forefathers, our mind just tends to confuse time with age, there. Life was simpler because you were young, not because it was the past... ask your parents.

 

[Eagle1]

Agreed. I've always gravitated away from tech in my personal pursuits, probably in part because I work in technical profession all week:

1. My house was built in the early 1700's, and although we have indoor plumbing and a modern kitchen, it's kept relatively original.
2. I heat my home mostly with firewood. Satisfies the inner-caveman, and cheaper than a gym membership, until you figure in the costs of the orthopedist you may need later.
3. When getting back into boating after a many-years break, I chose to sail in a racing class that prohibits the use of GPS or communication devices on the race course.
4. My shop is filled with vintage woodworking machinery, and even those get favored less than hand-powered tools, when I can manage it.

Although if I'm being honest, most of this is done out of some stupid romantic idea that "life was simpler" in the old days, rather than "technology is work". I know life was almost certainly not simpler for our forefathers, our mind just tends to confuse time with age, there. Life was simpler because you were young, not because it was the past... ask your parents.

Some of us were born in the wrong century.....

 

[WinterDeere]

Some of us were born in the wrong century.....

Yep... until you remember novocain and air conditioning.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

What's that "air conditioning" you speak of?

Some sort of oil bath air cleaner?

 

[WinterDeere]

What's that "air conditioning" you speak of?

Some sort of oil bath air cleaner?

Try Philadelphia in July. I just dare you.

Our summer humidity here can be oppressive. It’s rare we see above 100F dry bulb, but our heat indexes accounting for humidity are eye-watering.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I went to Chicago for their big July 4th party & was staying with my girlfriends parents.. with NO A/C.!!!
That only lasted 1 night.. We got a hotel room for the remainder of the trip..

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Try Philadelphia in July. I just dare you.

Our summer humidity here can be oppressive. It’s rare we see above 100F dry bulb, but our heat indexes accounting for humidity are eye-watering.

Having been dumb enough to go to New Orleans in late July, I think I know what you're trying to say.

Had no A/C in the trailer, and the A/C in the tow vehicle crapped out in AZ on the way there. Drank gallons of water, yet never needed to undrink.

 

[Jstpssng]

Summer 2001 I was working in upstate NY, staying in a motel with no AC. After the first night I went out and bought a fan, and was sleeping with the door open because that was the only way to get the room cooled down. My dog was tied by a short lead to the bed frame and I counted on her to let me know if somebody came through the door...
After a football player died at practice from heat stroke I decided to go home for the weekend. My Toyota did have AC sort of... but didn't do much when it got over 80. I remember there was an air show as we drove through Vermont but it was too darned hot to stop.

I like my AC.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My Dad sent me to military school when I was 14 and no ac allowed. We could have a fan. I took a tray and laid a towel in it and pinned top of towel up. Filled tray with ice & fan behind it.
We had the coolest room on that dormitory.