• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    They’re also less safe and efficient. They’re fun, but objectively worse cars to run nowadays that parts can also be hard to come by.

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        11 hours ago

        That was made this century. To go uncomputerized, we need to be looking at the 80s and back.

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            8 hours ago

            90s cars had GPS already. They’re pretty advanced, other than economy cars. 00s and on, they’re chock full of computers.

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              No they didn’t bud. Regular (working class, non tech) people in the 90s had never heard of GPS, had hardly heard of a computer. Outside of super niche luxury brands of cars, it wasn’t a thing at all.

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              I suppose that depends on the model you get. On my truck there is no GPS, no On Star, simple CD player deck, which I replaced with 3rd party deck.

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                8 hours ago

                Most my cars have been German. Even when there was no internet, they still had a fucktonne of computers. Think there’s about 25 ECUs in my 2007 shitbox.

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                  Yes but im willing to bet they dont all phone home like cars of today, government has full control of all new vehicles due to regulations. Black boxes, brake control, cameras, your new car is a rolling surveillance tool.