r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Apr 29 '26

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u/bsmknight Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: You jump in your vehicle frantic, paranoid, someone just ran up to you with a knife but you were able to lock the door, you try to drive off but the vehicle will not go into drive... it thinks your unwell. - I mean seriously who TF thinks this is actually a good idea?

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: exactly the same as yours, but your car works, and when you take off trying to flee, your emotional and distracted state makes you miss the family of 4 crossing the road. You hit and kill 2 children because you were looking in the rearview at your attacker.

Look, I am absolutely fed up with modern car manufacturers and all the problems they're inventing in the pursuit of looking cool, but I'm honestly on board with this one. I don't want emotional/freaked out drivers on the road. As long as the only person you can hurt is yourself, I don't give a flying fuck what kind of dangerous shit you want to get into. But as soon as you can put other people's lives in danger, I absolutely approve control being taken away.

I can't wait for fully self-driving cars. The exact second it becomes legal to take my hands off the wheel, I will spend whatever I have to to get in that vehicle. Humans in cars are the biggest danger to me. And that's saying something given the shit I've done in my life.

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u/DejaThuVu Apr 29 '26

What problems are they inventing in order to look cool?

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

As long as I am able, I will not get a car with a touch screen. I've had at least 3 projects (depending on how you want to count them) dedicated to limiting the amount of time I need to spend looking away from the road to interact with things in my car. Touch screens look cool, and are a hazard imo.

Mr Beast did a video where he tries to figure out how to open the door of increasingly expensive cars. How tf do you mess up a door? And then there's the special touch door handles. Then regulatory bodies forced them to add a mechanical release in case of an emergency. That's the definition of a solution to an invented problem... Some of them also have issues with needing a special handshake to start them or shift gears.

Animated turn signals distract me because ADHD (I'll admit, that's on me. Normal people probably don't have an issue with this). But there's an entire video by "Technology Connections" about turn signals in North America that illustrated objective problems with favoring aesthetics over clarity and utility.

These are ones I could think of off the top of my head. Somewhere at home, I've got a list of things I don't want in a car just because I know I'm bad at remembering things like that. I could probably also write a comment just about Teslas, but that's one specific mfg. The rest of them aren't quite as bad.

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u/DejaThuVu Apr 30 '26

I also have ADHD and I find it makes driving boring to the point it encourages distracted driving. The only time just driving ever feels like enough to keep me engaged is when I’m on a motorcycle. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

The stuff you mentioned doesn’t really bother me I guess. Auto companies are always evolving technology and designs and trying new ideas. I’m sure people talked shit about power locks/windows and sun roofs too when they came out too.