Things that are worse for drivers nowadays.

Wibbles
Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,270 Championing
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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.

Comments

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,629 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    As a non driver, all I can add is "Cars don't look as cool these days."

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 3,532 Championing

    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.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 586 Empowering

    Chinese-American design style is killing my brain. Soon you will need to have a fighter pilot's license to drive a car.

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    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.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,270 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/898052#Comment_898052

    I agree about the physical size of new cars

    The Suzuki Swift is about my choice limit as far as automatics now go..

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    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.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,270 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/898663#Comment_898663

    Probably Jeremy Clarkson ?

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    🤣 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

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,270 Championing
    edited August 2024
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/898867#Comment_898867
    2024-hummer-rhd-01.jpg
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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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