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korky1318 OP t1_islbh6r wrote

Reply to comment by chestertonfence in 1987 vw jetta. Starts, runs, tiny maintenance costs and never left me stranded. Soon 300k km. Got it since 5y + by korky1318

I understand your point of view, yet I don't share it at all. I have an immense fun driving this car around, whether it be on mountain roads or busy highways etc. If I die in a crash, at least I died happy instead of dieing behind my phone being too used to an almost self driving soulless hybrid junk on wheels.

To each is own, in my opinion all this assistance stuff has made people careless and worsened their driving skills over the years. Be it ESP, cameras, beeps etc. Not talking about airbags and ABS which are a good thing.

Try texting when your car is a manual, pulls right left depending on tyre size, hasn't the best brakes nor any kind of assistance. This shit takes your full attention and the lack thereof is what causes most accidents.

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chestertonfence t1_islwx5m wrote

Yep, sure sounds like we have different viewpoints. I prefer modern safe soulless cars that allow me to focus full attention on the road with a minimum of levers to operate. Get me from A to B comfortably and safely.

You seem to prefer having full operational control over every aspect and value that feeling of more control. The hands-on compensation for aspects of traditional motoring is fun for you, but not for me.

I prefer computers do as much as possible to protect me automatically so if someone does distract me for a moment, or someone is unavoidably going to hit me, my passengers and I have a better chance of survivability.

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