No, the top one sparks gasoline. And the bottom one sparks … I don’t know how electric cars work.
In my opinion, the worst part about new cars is that they are essentially tracking devices and some of them can be remotely controlled.
Any suggestions on how to get a car that doesn’t track you and was built post-2010?
There is a website that you can opt out of having certain data tracked.
But I imagine insurance companies will use it as an excuse to raise your rates if you opt out
Mazda MX5. I have a 2019 and it’s simple. Heated seats, blindspot mirrors, backup camera, led headlights. Absolute joy to drive.
No other tech that tracks you as far as I’m aware.
Hard disagree. It is SO much faster for me to read a digital number readout than a analogue one.
This isn’t touch screen controls (which are terrible). It’s a readout.
I will never put a light mode display in my car. I will take an analogue dial over something that burns spots into my retinas when I’m trying to drive. Even with dark mode, the amount of ambient light coming off that thing is gonna bother me at night.
We need to downgrade everybody’s headlights while we’re talking about personal preference too. If the car behind me has lights that are so bright they cast a shadow over my own headlights, they’re too bright.
Yeah I thought since I’m old I’d be like gimme the old way, but I would actually prefer simplicity for regular commutes.
But I feel like not even car companies want me to have simplicity so they can monetize more doodads
Honestly I’d kill for a digital dashboard that easy to read. Most are way worse.
Well tough luck, you’re getting one with roman numerals!
I hate that cars are just smart phones on wheels now. Do any auto makers still make cars with the old style and not all these screens and crap?
I was so happy when I saw some modern KIAs use analog controls.
Then I checked KIAs reliability and safety score and died.
I’ve put 80k miles on one Kia and just got a Hyundai with 100k miles on it. I’ve not once had something need replacement that wasn’t an expected wear item at about the expected interval. I also witnessed a Kia get pinned against the median on the beltline by a speeding car that lost control and while it was definitely totaled, the occupants were uninjured.
So my annecdotal experience has been quite positive
R.I.P.
My car doesn’t have any of that fancy crap, but the fuel gage is an lcd and I hate it so much. Like it should be fine, except it just doesn’t work at certain temperatures and I live in an area where that means half the year.
I. HATE. TOUCHSCREENS!
watching 80s and 90s anime has given me a soul-deep admiration for mechanical dials of any kind. I like high-tech shit, but it’s gotta have low-tech dials, or I’m out.
Windows with a hand crank saved me when I was stuck in a car as a kid. Now you get out, you gotta smash it.
You wouldn’t have that problem with Linux. 🤓
For sure just hit :wq.
Do you have any recommendations for older anime?
OG Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z.
Are you specifically looking for anime with a gorgeous retro-futuristic aesthetic, like I was talking about? If so, this channel will help you explore some you might be interested in.
Of course it doesn’t spark, is electric
she is a very small and cute little sandwich
Gen Z: Can’t read analog clocks. “What speed am I going? There are no numbers!”
No idea what that bottom driver is doing, but it indeed does not spark joy
It’s a screenshot from MKBHD’s latest video.
Lmao, high beams, no seatbelt at 108kph for a 30kph speed limit. Ooof.
Yeah, sparks a whole lot of emotions, but joy is not among them.
I love the potential of a digital dash.
I hate the wasted potential of actual digital dashes.Let me fuckin customize it.
Let me put whatever gauges I want wherever I want. I know that the data is available over the CAN bus, let me fuckin see it.
Dynamically change the layout if something important happens I need to keep an eye on, but wouldn’t normally need to worry aboutOn the canbus
Is this a new porn series?
That’s the Cuntbus
My Seat Leon has a digital dashboard, by pressing the “VIEW” button on the steering wheel it rotates between several different layouts, which can be customized.
I normally just have two normal dials, with a GPS map in the middle, fuel gauges to the left (because the standard place doesn’t line up properly) and a media display to the right (shows what song/podcast is playing and the progress of it)
I can make my entire dash be a giant GPS map display, with only a small digital speedometer readout, but that is annoying.
These new digital dashboards offer plenty of customizations, but the formfactor should be the same as a normal dash
Some can, especially aftermarket ones. But it’s usually not simple and usually OEM don’t offer a lot of customization options.
Even more infuriating when not only is it not customisable, but they layout they do use is just… bad in a thousand different tiny ways.
For example, the tachometer and speedometer on my vehicle have two display modes. The traditional looking dials and a more compact vertical wheel that leaves more room in the middle of the display for other things.
…but those other things are almost always either useless (I don’t need to see a little picture of the vehicle I’m driving), or actively worse (the media info screen actually shows fewer characters in the larger mode).
It’s not unusable, it’s just varying levels of awkward or useless in dozens of little aspects.
Basically nobody actually needs a tach taking up as much space as the speedometer.
No, I’m building a replacement unified speedo/tach for my motorcycle, the tach is huge and analog, speed is digital in the middle.
RIP anyone that drives a manual, tows, or goes off roading.
On a more serious note I’d imagine they stick around for diagnostics and inclement weather(forcing the car into a particular gear). Since the space is already there they generally have a bunch of other gauges and crap inside of them (all the warning lights that are usually off).
I mean, if you actually need an indicator, a shift light and a line of LEDs gets the job done better than a tach anyway, besides I’ve driven manuals that didn’t even have a tach from the factory, it used to be pretty common. I’m pretty sure they stick around now because they make the car feel more sporty.
About the only time I actually needed the tach specifically was… I actually legitimately can’t think of one, nearly everything is by sound/feel and the times I needed specifics, like when troubleshooting, I would use an obd tool / tuner to see the exact values and plot them.
Nah man, if you see your tach wobble, you know you’ve got a carb jet issue, or dirty injectors.
I am not an off-road guy, but I drove a stick and towed heavy stuff forever. You don’t need the tach if you have experience or ears. If you can’t drive manual without a tach, you’re a shit driver frankly.
The only reason I’ve ever used a tach is for break-in on a vehicle or for hypermiling.
Edit: before I went electric in 2017 and haven’t looked back :)
I use it because on my bike I need to set the correct minimum RPM after cleaning my carbs. Also sometimes I want to go faster than I should in 6th, a quick glance at the tach tells me how much headroom before redline I’ve got.
I’ve dailyed six manual cars and two of them didn’t have a tach (both Fords?), and one of those was too old to even have a shift light. Honestly, even when I was new I barely looked at the tach when I had one anyway, and I didn’t really start to look at until I learned how to really get good at rev-matching for heal-toe and dropping gears. I just shift by ear and ass like 90% of the time.
Once you have experience yeah…I rarely look at the tach anymore. It’s the process of acquiring that experience that it’s still useful also stuff gets loud or your driver might be deaf. Just helped my sister do something and part of the reset procedure on her car was hold 2000 rpm for 60 seconds. They serve a purpose is all.
Oh yeah it’s worth having a tachometer, but I don’t know why you want one that takes up as much space as the speedometer on the gauge cluster. It seems gratuitous to me.
