I’ve only had my wheels for a couple of years now, but I wouldn’t change them for the world. Its got a good few years under its belt and miles on the clock, but it does all the things I want it to. This is namely transport me from A to B and occasionally keep the rain off my head. Whilst I’m happy with my wheels, my friends think I’m living in the past and tease me constantly about having an unique when their cars are more advanced that fighter planes. A selection of technological tools do provide some benefit, but largely speaking I would say tech causes more problems than it solves. Here a just a selection of reasons why I reject tech in my car
1.) More things to go wrong. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to rescue my friend after his hydraulic suspension system went AWOL on the highway. Or consoling a mate whose parking sensor fell asleep during a vital parking moment. When all is said an done, tech will malfunction eventually and the more of the stuff you have, the more frequently it will cause you to pull your hair out
2.) Over dependence. Ask your granddad how he managed to get around in his old Ford Cortina and he’ll tell you that he only had the position of the sun to guide him and a dipping stick to work out how much petrol he had left. And yet, he’ll also tell you that he never got lost and never ran out of petrol. He may be stretching the truth a little, but I would put money on the fact a higher percentage of road users run into problems such as these nowadays. This is largely because doing something like trusting a sav nav device that has 40mil roads in its data center is all well and good, but when it successfully navigates you to Percy Drive, Toronto, rather than Percy Drive in Miami where you live, you suddenly realise it’s not so clever.
3.) Theft. You might consider my view of the world too negative, but as far as I’m concerned the more tech you have in your car, the more of a target it becomes to thieves. Criminals are only human and they want to be listening to Dolby surround sound as they hotwire you car and have a perfectly air conditioned 15 degrees environment to drive in whilst being chased by the cops. For these reasons (among others) it’s almost always the flash cars that get targeted. This kind of decision can backfire however, when the sat nav guides them to nearest police station by accident and the central locking wont let them out of the car.
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