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And make you run everything with it so you have to take your eyes off the road to adjust it. I really miss buttons and switches for everything. Once you learn the layout you could do it all by feel without taking eyes off the road.
You paid $20k too much for your truck.
I’m a CSCE by training, engineer by trade, and after a 30 year career I think we have too many complex systems everywhere.
As a Master Automotive technician with 47 years of experience, I'll say yes, that there are WAY too many electronics. I personally have zero need for most of them. A car is, for me, a tool to get me to places where I can't walk to get to or ride a bike. I have been driving 51 years as of this month (legally) LOL! To me, nothing about the utilitarian aspect of a car has changed, but, I don't need to be entertained 24/7/365 like so many folks believe they do.
They're actually called government regulations, not mandates. I guess the end result is the same though. I'm no fan of most of them, but some of the older regulations for safety like seat belts and air bags make sense to me. But I think most of the gadgets in cars now are because the majority of people want them. At least as of now there are no regulations for having a large touch screen, lane sense, blind spot detection, surround view cameras, bluetooth, wifi, SriusXM, cellular network connection, etc. So in the end we mostly have consumers to thank for this. I myself can live with my vehicle having these things as long as I can turn them off.
Exactly! How counter intuitive is this?!!!
