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[The Jewel of the Nile]

If you had to strike a compromise with auto manufacturers, what controls must be in mechanical knobs/buttons and what others could you accept being in a touch screen?

Radio/music, map and general settings can be touchscreen only as those aren't usually changed mid-road. Except maybe the volume knob. But AC, lights, turn signals and wipers should absolutely be physical button only

 

[Thiletonomics]

Slightly unrelated, but I discovered that a Chinese company called JAC produces a pickup truck that I can only describe as a fusion of every modern pickup truck trend that urbanists hate and you can buy it outside of China in places like Australia. I remember when they were shilling Chinese cars saying how much better they were. How would they respond to this RAM/Tundra/Ranger looking thing.

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BYD has also been jumping into the pickup truck market, as they started selling the Shark model in Australia:



I don't recall hearing hate from urbanists about it though, because once again "Chinese cars are good since they're not Western-made."

 

[Return of the Freaker]

I hear rumors that the DOT is becoming angry with touchscreen controls due to the fact it requires you take your eyes off the road.

If you had to strike a compromise with auto manufacturers, what controls must be in mechanical knobs/buttons and what others could you accept being in a touch screen?

The answer is fuck the touchscreen and look at what Mazda's been doing. I have a 2021 Mazda 3 hatchback and I think they got it right

 

[Thrak]

Bros, good news. Apparently the weight limit for dutch vehicles under drivers license B is getting increased by 1000 KG! Previously it was 3500 KG and it will be 4500 KG once it goes into place. Pickup trucks won, not just kikes is gonna seethe once this passes and gets accepted. His video when this happens is gonna be kino meltdown

It's shocking that Europe isn't doing the opposite of this. It's one thing to point out that the differences in fuel economy and stopping distance between an F150 and a Mondeo which shares its engine are negligible, but in a time where they're trying to ban cars altogether and make their people as useless and defenseless as possible, a vehicle that's far more reliable as well as cheaper and easier to maintain than anything European, gives you the ability to haul anything and go anywhere in comfort and also gives you more of a fighting chance against the Bomalians they're forcing on you should be the last thing they would want you to have. Banning them should be one of their highest priorities at the moment

Fuckcars people are in favor of growth boundaries and against the bill. They want everyone crammed into as little land as possible so that the elite can have country estates to protect nature.

Them being against it hasn't been my experience, but them promoting density at all costs makes it even funnier that they're refusing to do what needs to be done to build and rebuild housing in the eastern half of the country. Most of the country's oldest metros feature huge enclaves of ghost towns and razed lots that nature is reclaiming. It would be so much easier to renovate or bulldoze and rebuild these old neighborhoods that are already surrounded by people and utilities than build another overpriced greyscale cookie cutter subdivision in the middle of nowhere for job-chasing tech nomads. They're ideologically compelled to keep those remnants of White civilization in their ruined or nonexistent state as a sort of perverse nature preserve for blacks and the behavior they believe blacks should exhibit. They must also bulldoze formerly untouched nature to build more of the McMansions which they claim to hate to house themselves as well as ugly townhouses and combloc midrises to cram the infinite nonwhite hordes against the rapidly shrinking number of Whites that aren't a part of their inner circle

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Radio/music, map and general settings can be touchscreen only as those aren't usually changed mid-road. Except maybe the volume knob. But AC, lights, turn signals and wipers should absolutely be physical button only

Nah you need the tactile feedback seek button cause I'm constantly switching channels if I hear any kind of Ads.

Fuck Ads.

Also when the radio announcer does their BS pop culture stories or interviews, anecdotes and contests. I want to hear the music or news not some faggot interrupting every few minutes to talk retard shit.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Nah you need the tactile feedback seek button cause I'm constantly switching channels if I hear any kind of Ads.

Fuck Ads.

Also when the radio announcer does their BS pop culture stories or interviews, anecdotes and contests. I want to hear the music or news not some faggot interrupting every few minutes to talk retard shit.

The music channels doing this shit is why I stopped listening to radio altogether. Everything is basically pre-packaged bits that are purchased from a third party, nothing interesting or relevant to the local area, and the total lack of charisma from the hosts kills any other interesting potential (it doesn't help that any mention of anything vaguely off-color gets them shit-canned). And then they wonder why radio doesn't bring in the money like it used to.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Tl;dr every trend I hate in modern car interior design

Do people actually like having a knock off ipad run the car? I love having all sorts of buttons and gizmos to fiddle with, not to mention having an analog dashboard instead of a digital one. What is the point of a digital one if they are ugly and the car manufacturers won't make it easy to customize how it looks?

 

[Buttigieg2020]

It's shocking that Europe isn't doing the opposite of this.

The Netherlands installed an anti-green government, so this actually makes sense.

You probably won’t see this in elsewhere.

 

[FPTMIU]

The Netherlands installed an anti-green government, so this actually makes sense.

You probably won’t see this in elsewhere.

Yeah, getting what I voted for award. Not Just Kikes on suicide watch,

 

[FPTMIU]

Do people actually like having a knock off ipad run the car? I love having all sorts of buttons and gizmos to fiddle with, not to mention having an analog dashboard instead of a digital one. What is the point of a digital one if they are ugly and the car manufacturers won't make it easy to customize how it looks?

The most advanced things I want in my car are only 2 things: Cruise Control, and that little knob on the steering wheel you can use to adjust the volume of the radio, that's neat and handy.

 

[Jotch]

The most advanced things I want in my car are only 2 things: Cruise Control, and that little knob on the steering wheel you can use to adjust the volume of the radio, that's neat and handy.

The recent developments of putting buttons on the steering wheel is far nicer than the touch screen.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

It's shocking that Europe isn't doing the opposite of this.

It's really not, it's because of EVs. They're heavy as shit and a van/small truck with 700kg of batteries having to fit into the old 3.5 ton limit means it has fuck all left for cargo.

 

[Baraka Obama]

I hear rumors that the DOT is becoming angry with touchscreen controls due to the fact it requires you take your eyes off the road.

If you had to strike a compromise with auto manufacturers, what controls must be in mechanical knobs/buttons and what others could you accept being in a touch screen?

Aside from what everyone else has said I would also force all cars to have an idrive style knob to control the screen.

 

[McMitch]

I hear rumors that the DOT is becoming angry with touchscreen controls due to the fact it requires you take your eyes off the road.

If you had to strike a compromise with auto manufacturers, what controls must be in mechanical knobs/buttons and what others could you accept being in a touch screen?

1) Display/touch screen settings with the exception of brightness being a physical control, 2)Bluetooth/Hands-free setup since cars already require you to be in park to do so, 3) GPS controls since there really isn’t a practical non-touchscreen solution. Everything else can and should have a physical control.

 

[Sierra Death Generator]

I hear rumors that the DOT is becoming angry with touchscreen controls due to the fact it requires you take your eyes off the road.

If you had to strike a compromise with auto manufacturers, what controls must be in mechanical knobs/buttons and what others could you accept being in a touch screen?

I love the now-mandatory automatic warning on every new car Post-2024 now featuring an annoying alert every single time the vehicle is turned off that says HEY YOU DUMB HIGH AS FUCK CRACKHEAD NIGGER DID YA FORGET THE KIDS IN THE BACK SEAT>?????>!>?>!??!?!??!

Because apparently it is such a widespread, drastic problem killing tens of thousands of kids every year because people just forget they have children in the back seat that now every single vehicle made from now on has to have that mandatory warning device. But the touch screens where you have to use them on some vehicles to do *absolutely anything* are just fine.

Modern Chinese car Interiors are very Tesla-esque (probably why the Tesla does so well in Mainland China). Like, very little if any knobs/switches/buttons - nearly everything is controlled via a digital touchpad:

They look just like Teslas because the Chinese did what they do 100% of the time they see something they like - they embed agents in said company and steal all the intellectual property and produce their own knockoffs.

Ah the Mike Lee stuff.

On one hand, yeah the feds shouldn't be owning what should be state or private land. On the other hand, selling land to fix housing isn't the way to fix housing.

"Having more places to build more houses doesn't have anything to do with housing availability" is on the same plane of retardation as the globalist/leftist/whateverists claim that shoving 50 million immigrants into a country doesn't have any effect on housing and rental prices. It's self evident that it does. The only response to someone saying that isn't going down basic reasoning skills; it's just responding "Are you fucking retarded or something?"

 

[Jotch]

I love the now-mandatory automatic warning on every new car Post-2024 now featuring an annoying alert every single time the vehicle is turned off that says HEY YOU DUMB HIGH AS FUCK CRACKHEAD NIGGER DID YA FORGET THE KIDS IN THE BACK SEAT>?????>!>?>!??!?!??!

Because apparently it is such a widespread, drastic problem killing tens of thousands of kids every year because people just forget they have children in the back seat that now every single vehicle made from now on has to have that mandatory warning device. But the touch screens where you have to use them on some vehicles to do *absolutely anything* are just fine.

Any make that respects the customer lets you turn off that warning, turn off the "Check surroundings" warning when in reverse, and turn off the screen entirely.

 

[Sierra Death Generator]

Any make that respects the customer lets you turn off that warning, turn off the "Check surroundings" warning when in reverse, and turn off the screen entirely.

The only thing I'm somewhat surprised on is New Pakistan beating California to be the first to mandate the permanent "speed warning" device that monitors how fast you're going at all times and produces audible chimes whenever you're being naughty.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Christian

Those goofy niggers aint Christian they're one of those crazy Asian new religious movements where the founder says he's Christ.

 

[FPTMIU]

More of this slop in my recommended

 

[Xarpho's Return]

More of this slop in my recommended

Anyone who uses that FUCKING Breezewood picture for "muh cars" propaganda should be immediately discredited and repeatedly dunked in hobo diarrhea.