I love technology

[greengeezer]

I had to make a trip to an out of town medical facility and used my vehicle navigation screen for the first time. Typed in the address and the visual map and voice prompts started me on my way. The new feature that has been added since the last time I had this feature is that now when you have to make a major route change, the screen shows landmark traffic signs. I love bells and whistles.

 

[johns1124]

Big improvement over your last ride!

Spoiler

 

[greengeezer]

Big improvement over your last ride!

Spoiler

I’m old enough to remember the old foldable paper road maps you picked up in the gas station.

 

[30CAT]

I’m old enough to remember the old foldable paper road maps you picked up in the gas station.

The maps were actual size back then

 

[greengeezer]

The maps were actual size back then

And once unfolded, they could never be returned to their original shape.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

I like knobs and buttons instead of basically an ipad running the car.

But apple car play and remote start (I have to park outside) are such quality-of-life car gadget boosters I can't live without now.

I'd drive a toyota Hilux with manual doors and cloth seats no problem, but at this point I'm never going back to a car without Carplay and remote start.

 

[greengeezer]

I like knobs and buttons instead of basically an ipad running the car.

Almost everything in my vehicle is touch screen and I’m not crazy about that. Big rubber coated knobs are easier to reach for, but a touchscreen takes your eyes off the road.

One new feature I love is the 360 degree aerial view camera. Makes backing into my parking space a breeze. I was obsessed with trying to figure out how they did that. I left a glove on the hood and realized it didn’t show up in the camera view. Told me that the surrounding area pics are real, but the picture of the vehicle is some kind of AI animation.

 

[WV-FAN]

be careful following GPS, although I'm sure it's much better than when the following occurred.

several years ago i was in charleston and input Dick's Sporting Goods in my GPS. it took me down 119 around 5 or 6 miles past the plaza where it's located. it'd been a few years since i had been down that way, so didn't know, and followed the directions. when it had me take a left on a tar/chipped road, i knew it was messed up, but the destination was only a couple miles on that road, so i kept going just to see where it'd take me.

drove on that road a bit less than a mile then it had me take a left. right off the tar/chipped road was a creek with no bridge and a gravel road on the other side, the creek wasn't more than a foot deep. so, i crossed the stream and followed the gravel road about a mile to the GPS destination. it was a trailer with 4 or 5 old cars on blocks with a couple doberman pinschers running around that looked like they were ready to chew my tires off, or my ass if i got out.

i turned around and went back to the plaza where the wal-mart is and saw a couple guys sitting in a ford ranger with tinted windows toward the end of the parking lot and pulled in beside them. i rolled my window down and motioned for them to roll theirs down. when the driver did, there set sistersville and @MichiganHerd, assumedly getting stoned out of their minds with all of the smoke rolling out of the window; either that or the carpet was on fire. at any rate, they pointed me in the right direction to the plaza across 119.

 

[Marshall Jeff]

1972 model cars or older for me.

 

[greengeezer]

1972 model cars or older for me.

We could start a “Go Fund Me.”

 

[greengeezer]

be careful following GPS, although I'm sure it's much better than when the following occurred.

several years ago i was in charleston and input Dick's Sporting Goods in my GPS. it took me down 119 around 5 or 6 miles past the plaza where it's located. it'd been a few years since i had been down that way, so didn't know, and followed the directions. when it had me take a left on a tar/chipped road, i knew it was messed up, but the destination was only a couple miles on that road, so i kept going just to see where it'd take me.

drove on that road a bit less than a mile then it had me take a left. right off the tar/chipped road was a creek with no bridge and a gravel road on the other side, the creek wasn't more than a foot deep. so, i crossed the stream and followed the gravel road about a mile to the GPS destination. it was a trailer with 4 or 5 old cars on blocks with a couple doberman pinschers running around that looked like they were ready to chew my tires off, or my ass if i got out.

i turned around and went back to the plaza where the wal-mart is and saw a couple guys sitting in a ford ranger with tinted windows toward the end of the parking lot and pulled in beside them. i rolled my window down and motioned for them to roll theirs down. when the driver did, there set sistersville and @MichiganHerd, assumedly getting stoned out of their minds with all of the smoke rolling out of the window; either that or the carpet was on fire. at any rate, they pointed me in the right direction to the plaza across 119.

This is almost long enough to qualify as a Rifle story.

 

[Marshall Jeff]

We could start a “Go Fund Me.”

Perhaps, but this way the government can't disable my vehicle if I am disobedient.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

Almost everything in my vehicle is touch screen and I’m not crazy about that. Big rubber coated knobs are easier to reach for, but a touchscreen takes your eyes off the road.

One new feature I love is the 360 degree aerial view camera. Makes backing into my parking space a breeze. I was obsessed with trying to figure out how they did that. I left a glove on the hood and realized it didn’t show up in the camera view. Told me that the surrounding area pics are real, but the picture of the vehicle is some kind of AI animation.

My wife has overhead camera on her new fancy SUV yet still can't back out of the driveway. SHe comes to get me to do it if she can't doa a 3 point turn out of there. So even the tech can't fix the XX chromosomes behind the wheel. But I agree, it's amazing.