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Comment Re:Pretend to be a customer for a new Subaru (Score 1) 139

Touch screens are a STUPID idea for cars for a very simple reason: one cannot use a touch screen without looking at the screen instead of the road. Voice input with audio confirmation would work fine for most of the things car manufacturers are using touch screens for, without forcing users to take their eyes off the road. That being said, my Toyota has adaptive cruise control and lane holding assist, so I can watch porn while driving the freeway anyway...

Comment Re:Drivenshitification? (Score 1) 139

I use Android Auto 100% of the time when I am driving. A popup would make me miss my exit, which would piss me off. I'm not happy about the constant driver alerts from Waze that Google inserted either. Or the fact that every time I ask google a question, it pops up a survey of how I liked my Google experience... while I'm driving.

Comment Re:Hugs my 2000s car... (Score 1) 139

I tried a trial of Sirius when I bought my RAV4. All those spots along the Umpqua River where I can't get radio or cellular data? Turns out I can't get Sirius in those spots either; the cliff face blocks the path to the Sirius satellite. Funny story: Some idiot signed his BWM up for Sirius using my email address, so I keep cancelling his Sirus account... and he keeps restarting it.

Comment Re:Fair weather friends (Score 1) 57

They also get in the way of building homes.

For a while (no idea about current situation) but where I used to live in the UK you could not build a property because the Environment Agency had enacted new rules which capped water run off into watercourses, and no council anywhere in the UK had manageable plans to actually meet it with new developments, so nothing got built.

The rules were well intentioned, but came down like a hammer and stopped everything.

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 1) 249

I see the point now, it "took" (pretty much past tense) about 30 years.

I do remember when it came out, and when a work friend got one in the early 2000s. It seemed so freaky. Everybody was like, 'Toyota loses money on every one!' 'You're going to be crying when the battery wears out!' 'It'll break down twice as much as a normal car because it has 2 drivetrains!'

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