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Post by don on Feb 18, 2024 20:04:01 GMT
Being in my wheelchair Heather chauffeurs me around in a 16 year old VW Caddy conversion. I doubt we will ever be replacing it but she will need lessons in all the new technologies 🤣👍
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Post by gray1720 on Feb 18, 2024 20:16:06 GMT
Yes, I don't know what I will do when Le Van Rouge meets its end, it's still fairly low tech - a cd player is as good as it gets - I may have a lot to learn, and a lot of crotchetty tech to get fixed...
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Post by peterob on Feb 18, 2024 20:36:47 GMT
I had my first ride in a Tesla the other day. As a rear seat passenger I don't know how the driver keeps their eyes on the road with all necessary information shown on a big [and I mean big] screen in the dash. It must take a lot of getting used to. I quite liked that it shows passing cars in animation and distinguishes cars from wagons. This info. from blind spot cameras. I thought a 3 week old car ought to know the speed limit in our street is no longer 30 but 20. I expect my car to be wrong on speed limits because the sat nav records are 10 years old this year.
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Post by andy on Feb 18, 2024 21:31:40 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so.
How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens.
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Post by geoffr on Feb 18, 2024 21:56:01 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so. How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens. The Saab certainly does both, if it ever gets fixed. I don't know about the Audi, I haven't got the washer fluid that low yet and the lights are all LEDs. |
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Post by peterob on Feb 18, 2024 21:56:44 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so. How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens. The washer fill warning on my car drives me to distraction. I appreciate the [very early] warning but first it starts flashing on an off as the car goes rounds bends and the fluid sloshes, then it goes on permanently, not as a little warning lamp but as a large illuminated message to driver right next to the speedometer. Which reminds me - I only had 4 litres of washer fluid available last time it went off (its a huge tank) so it will be moaning again soon. |
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Post by geoffr on Feb 18, 2024 22:06:36 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so. How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens. The washer fill warning on my car drives me to distraction. I appreciate the [very early] warning but first it starts flashing on an off as the car goes rounds bends and the fluid sloshes, then it goes on permanently, not as a little warning lamp but as a large illuminated message to driver right next to the speedometer. Which reminds me - I only had 4 litres of washer fluid available last time it went off (its a huge tank) so it will be moaning again soon. The tyre pressure warning on the Audi displaces the clock, most annoying.
Warnings that have too high a threshold are likely, over time, to be ignored, a 1 psi difference between tyres isn't something I'm going to be concerned about, likewise 4L of washer fluid remaining. Equally, if many warnings on a vehicle have a high threshold and one important warning has a sensible threshold it is likely that they will all be ignored.
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Post by andy on Feb 18, 2024 22:25:45 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so. How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens. The washer fill warning on my car drives me to distraction. I appreciate the [very early] warning but first it starts flashing on an off as the car goes rounds bends and the fluid sloshes, then it goes on permanently, not as a little warning lamp but as a large illuminated message to driver right next to the speedometer. Which reminds me - I only had 4 litres of washer fluid available last time it went off (its a huge tank) so it will be moaning again soon. I've been lucky that all my cars have had the same system that seemed to work well. If I parked nose down a hill I'd sometimes get the washer fill warning a few skooshes before it would come on otherwise but that's hardly much to complain about. |
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Post by JohnY on Feb 18, 2024 23:01:11 GMT
Yes, I don't know what I will do when Le Van Rouge meets its end, it's still fairly low tech - a cd player is as good as it gets - I may have a lot to learn, and a lot of crotchetty tech to get fixed... I miss a CD player in my 3 year old car. |
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Post by willien on Feb 18, 2024 23:17:50 GMT
Yes, I don't know what I will do when Le Van Rouge meets its end, it's still fairly low tech - a cd player is as good as it gets - I may have a lot to learn, and a lot of crotchetty tech to get fixed... I miss a CD player in my 3 year old car. Not much use for long distances unless you have a passenger to change CDs. |
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Post by zou on Feb 18, 2024 23:42:05 GMT
I miss a CD player in my 3 year old car. Not much use for long distances unless you have a passenger to change CDs. Oh, the heady days of loading the cd changer in the boot before a long drive. |
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Post by spinno on Feb 19, 2024 7:20:55 GMT
Not much use for long distances unless you have a passenger to change CDs. Oh, the heady days of loading the cd changer in the boot before a long drive. Once took a Renault on holiday with a 5 CD changer...didn't have 5 cds worth listening to... It was an insurance "replacement car" for an old Astra...wouldn't let me keep it |
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Post by mick on Feb 19, 2024 8:03:14 GMT
All that fancy tech but do they tell you when a bulb is out or washer fluid is low? Working lights and washers are a legal requirement but it still seems like few cars alert drivers to issues there despite the technology to do so having been around for 40 years or so. How many people like finding out they are out of washer fluid when they can no longer see where they are going? Much better to get a warning days before that happens. My 17 year old scrapper did that. I assume that the replacement does as well but it's too soon to have experienced it.
It once told me that a headlamp bulb had blown. It didn't tell me that it was necessary to remove half the engine in order to change it.
Mick
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Post by nimbus on Feb 19, 2024 8:50:48 GMT
Yes, I don't know what I will do when Le Van Rouge meets its end, it's still fairly low tech - a cd player is as good as it gets - I may have a lot to learn, and a lot of crotchetty tech to get fixed... All the technology in more recent cars certainly hasn't done anything for driving standards as there are far more distractions, touch screens in particular. Imho drivers are made to feel too cocooned and as such isolated from what is going on around them. Of the cars I drive the newest is a 2016 Alfa Romeo, a couple of years ago I was driving around in a 2019 VW Golf for about 10 days when the AR was being repaired after a lady scraped it when parked. I have to say I did not like the newer car, it felt cheap and the touch screen could easily act as a distraction should the driver have let it do so, many probably would. |
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Post by MJB on Feb 19, 2024 9:29:15 GMT
I've never driven a car that hasn't been equipped with a feature that told me I was exceeding the speed limit, driving too close to the car in front, deviating from my lane, and various other hazards. She does the washing up and laundry as well.
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