Our car is over 10 years old and things are starting to play up. A door sensor here, and a car seatbelt weight sensing module there. The little shitty things that were not needed for literally decades, but are now an integral part of the MOT certificate we need to pass every year in the UK to keep our cars on the road.
I’m thinking about and doing research on older cars that are reliable… but not full of sensors that will shit the bed at the slightest opportunity.
I understand, and agree totally, that cars need to be safe. I’m just sick of enshittification. Being beeped at and nannied into things. Mostly I’m annoyed at the planned obsolescence of shitty sensors and modules put in cars just to fuck up.
The last (used) srs module I had to buy was the size of a sandwich yet cost nearly a third of what the car is worth in total.
I agree that cars need to be safe, I’m just not willing to do any effort to help towards safety and will complain about features that remind me of my unsafe behavior.
I have a much newer car, with even more sensors, “alertness detection” and all that. As long as I’m wearing my seatbelt, respecting speed limits and security distances and not looking at my phone, there’s nothing beeping at me. Which is what I am supposed to be doing while operating heavy machinery, anyway.
Our car is over 10 years old and things are starting to play up. A door sensor here, and a car seatbelt weight sensing module there. The little shitty things that were not needed for literally decades, but are now an integral part of the MOT certificate we need to pass every year in the UK to keep our cars on the road.
I’m thinking about and doing research on older cars that are reliable… but not full of sensors that will shit the bed at the slightest opportunity.
I understand, and agree totally, that cars need to be safe. I’m just sick of enshittification. Being beeped at and nannied into things. Mostly I’m annoyed at the planned obsolescence of shitty sensors and modules put in cars just to fuck up.
The last (used) srs module I had to buy was the size of a sandwich yet cost nearly a third of what the car is worth in total.
tbf used cars in the uk are pretty undervalued, because right hand cars have a smaller local market
I have a much newer car, with even more sensors, “alertness detection” and all that. As long as I’m wearing my seatbelt, respecting speed limits and security distances and not looking at my phone, there’s nothing beeping at me. Which is what I am supposed to be doing while operating heavy machinery, anyway.