Things that are worse for drivers nowadays.
Please feel free to add your own gripes….
Death of manual parking brakes
Spare wheels phased out, in favour of puncture repair kits
Being forced to convert to EV’s when the charging network is not ready for it
Cars no longer user friendly – ie) Service items, no longer home serviceable. Too reliant on software downloads from manufacturers.
Drivers are too impatient these days – especially since the pandemic.
New cars are way too expensive – the cheapest car has virtually doubled in price since I bought my last car in 2017.
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As a non driver, all I can add is "Cars don't look as cool these days."
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Massive touchscreens stuck on the dash at windscreen height!
And very few normal sized hatchbacks. Everything's getting jacked up with faded dustbin plastic stuck around the arches now… But apparently that's what the majority want so I might be in the minority there.
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Chinese-American design style is killing my brain. Soon you will need to have a fighter pilot's license to drive a car.
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The proprietary technology and software. Which also means companies can control things about your car merely through software updates. Remember when BMW was considering requiring a subscription to turn on your car seat heaters? If you didn't pay, they would still be there, but they wouldn't turn on because the software wouldn't let you until it detected your account was paying the subscription for them.
I believe they backed down, but I would not be surprised if something very similar is attempted again.
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I agree about the physical size of new cars
The Suzuki Swift is about my choice limit as far as automatics now go..
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I saw a civilian humvee driving around my small town the other day. Cars could barely get by it on the other side of the road. It's just so massive and I don't get the appeal. Every time I go to the states I can't get over just how unnecessarily huge the cars are.
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Probably Jeremy Clarkson ?
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🤣 likely not around here, but it really does baffle me when people drive such large cars.
Apparently even here cars are getting so large that within several years they will struggle to fit inside standard car parking spaces
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The Hummer EV SUT is available with several different batteries, and this one has the top-spec 350kW setup. Yes, 350kW, or more than three times the size of the huge battery in a top-spec BMW i5.
Despite its huge 4.5-tonne kerbweight, it still has a range of around 380 miles, while 1000hp gives 0-60mph acceleration in 3.0 seconds.
SO IT'S "GET OUT OF MY WAY, I'M COMING THROUGH" !
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