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Faith Current's avatar

I plan to drive my beloved 1997 RAV (The date is somewhat misleading because I bought it in 2011 with only 30,000 miles on it) until at least a million miles.

I have a rental car at the moment and it's reminding me that for all of its conveniences, it knows way too much.

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Jack Krown's avatar

Lovely piece. And yup I’m appalled by my plug and play car. No fun.

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

Thank you! And I don't even like driving a whole lot. Its just disorienting that car companies are replacing our senses with technology in ways that I'm not certain are safer.

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Alice Vickers's avatar

Something very comfortable about a car whose hood you can open and identify the basic working parts.

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

And not just with cars! I wrote about the lack of ability to change the battery on a cell phone recently. Something that *could* be simple is made complicated.

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