RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 08/14/18> Maybe a hammer is needed…Bob was wrong.
Oh, I'm so with you on this one! I drive a 13-year-old Toyota, and when I decide it's time for a new one, it will be an even older car. A couple of weeks ago a friend drove me and two others to an outdoor climbing venue. Unfortunately she sprained her ankle while climbing, and I had to drive her car home. It was a nice car to drive, but a bit like a computer on wheels. The "key" was a little plastic electronic card and you had to press a button while putting your foot on the brake in order to start the thing. I'm clearly becoming an old fogey, at least where cars are concerned. But computers can be hacked, and I wouldn't want to drive something that could be hacked!
At a walk I'd organised a few weeks ago, a couple turned up in a BMW that had a flat tyre. The woman joined the walk, but her partner was unable to, as he had to wait for assistance to get the tyre changed, as it was a high-tech high-pressure one that needs a special kit to change it!
I have no desire to get anything new in the vehicle category unless they can go back and build them without the computers, end of story.
To bad about your friend and her ankle, but it did give you a chance to appreciate your old car just a little more.
Even changing a tire has gotten to the point that you do need assistance, some cars I am told no longer even come with a spare tire, just a canister of what we call" fix a flat " that you shoot into the tire through the valve stem for the air, and it fills and seals the tire until you can get somewhere to get the tire fixed.