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> bluetooth shifters what in tarnation
https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/information/news/new-shimano-... It's not clear to me that the wireless shifters themselves communicate via Bluetooth, though the system does use that to talk to a smartphone app, if desired.
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Brace yourself then, because the future of automotive is highly connected, and in many ways it already is. Every car since the early 2000s has computerized components that control everything from power steering to infotainment systems, and your car probably already communicates with some servers using a built in cellular sim. Hackers have been able to compromise cars for at least a couple of decades, and while car ma…
This is why I only buy old cars. If that becomes impossible in the future, that would be enough to get me to finally give up owning a car entirely.
True story: my neighbor's lease payment was under, by a dollar or two, no more. An error in his banking practices, I guess. They came and repossessed it in the middle of the night. He offered to pay, and they wouldn't take a credit card, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, wire transfer, or any other modern form of payment. No, he had to go to Western Union. Someone who's more up on this sort of stuff can explain that. A week late…
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Needs more pandering Verse 1: Had a pickup truck, my favorite toy, Whiskey in console, feeling coy, Drove on dirt roads, feeling free, With a girl on the tailgate, in tight blue jeans for all to see. Chorus: My truck left me, feeling stuck, Drinking whiskey in my blue jeans, feeling yuck, Miss the girl on the tailgate, her pretty look, Truck is gone, now I cry like a rook. Verse 2: Fell behind on payments, lost my ri…
Not a fan of the implicit approval of drinking and driving.
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Please refrain from commenting if you can't do it without putting words in my mouth. These people are forced into owning cars by a reality of our country that's not changing soon: we're pretty damn car-centric. But they're being taken advantage by a system that uses unethical and even illegal tactics to squeeze them between a rock and a hard place. The government can either do something upfront and probably save a to…
Sure maybe society puts them between a rock and a hard place because it requires a car. But how is the dealership forcing them to need a car, or tricking them into getting a car? They're just selling it to them, the individual is looking at the payments, they knows it's gonna be a stretch and they are rolling the dice hoping they can afford it. The relationship between the individual and the dealership doesn't sound…
I asked you not do a simple thing: reply to what was said, not some non-sensical aberration of it, and you've failed twice. Why is such a simple task so difficult for you?
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At the end of the day the dealerships are selling cars that are lemons.
The dealerships are requiring in-person on site payments.
The dealerships are selling cars well above FMV so that they can hold the loans in-house in a preferable structure that enables the rapid fire cycling of these cars.
Many dealerships are failing to disclose GPS trackers.
Some have gone as far as harassing buyers and their social circle after repos to try and get more money back.
I can't tell if you're being facetious at this point if you seriously think Buy-Here Pay-Here is not an exploitative grift. You don't get to double the profit margin of the people servicing prime customers with fair tactics: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb...
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> I'm pretty happy with the old, non-Internet-connected car that I drive. I'm so happy with it that I will never own one that is internet connected, unless I can disable the internet connection in some way.
Curious whats your plan if new cars become increasingly internet connected, kinda how smart TVs went? Will you keep driving early 2000s cars until they become "vintage"?
What if it's behind a locked gate?
It’ll still do all the annoying things like disable the air con or make an annoying noise. The full self repossession thing is just another use case for full self drive, which is complete fantasy land on the part of automakers.
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Oh I bet you're a real treat at parties. You over there pretending the vanishingly small handful of classic cars that still exist and are capable of being driven aren't a rounding error in the context of air pollution in general and global warming specifically? Let me guess, you also think eliminating dairy and meat production would result in a meaningful reduction in global CO2 emissions...
I’m not talking about registered classic or antique cars which have mileage or usage restrictions in most states that would prevent it from being a daily driver. And neither was the person you’re replying to that wants to avoid modern cars and keep his on the road indefinitely. And I’m not even talking about CO2 pollution which doesn’t form smog.
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Curious whats your plan if new cars become increasingly internet connected, kinda how smart TVs went? Will you keep driving early 2000s cars until they become "vintage"?
Spend the money maintaining an older car
People don't seem to fully grasp what not driving your car means. If you're not driving, you're not in control of where it goes. That sounds redundant yet people dont seem cognizant of the 2nd phrasing. You dont control the car, you make requests of it. It can say no. Looking very far into the future, it's not hard to imagine that all cars are self driving by default with some highly-regulated exception, for purposes…
Aren't you already not in control of where you go on foot? We have plenty of restricted areas for everything from anti-terrorism, govt buildings, and private property. There's even private roads for driving - this doesn't really change the laws it just makes enforcement easier. My hope is that we can automate enforcement of stuff like speeding tickets, and then people would get upset and we'd either raise the speed l…
The analog to what I’m saying would be something like disabling your legs and asking for permission to walk on a public sidewalk.