Cars need noise honestly, the amount of times I’ve not known there was a car right behind me because there wasn’t noise is… let’s just say too many times
or maybe it's about time people learn to mind their surroundings when walking around the streets (or driving or whatever people be doing). Honestly it's just something you get used to paying attention to, and if not, well then Darwin has a nice award waiting
Thanks for the video. My newest vehicle is a 2013 work van and a 2011 car. I recently saw a video where a Ford truck manually shifts itself into park if the drivers door opens while in drive and I was astounded to see the shifter moving on its own. This led me to look up new features in cars that I had no idea about. I recently bought a 2021 Chevy work truck and its still got all of the old fashioned manual EBrake lever, keys to turn the ignition over, and a regular gesrshifter in the column. The most advanced thing on it is a backup camera which I'm fine with. An electronic ebrake and a few others mentioned here are not things I'd be looking for.
@@doritolegend9664 i am kinda on a break from honkai as i search other enjoyable games but once I'm done will be returning to see the rest of the story.
I 100% agree with ya on the dial-a-shifter bullshit. I find even more discouraging to see so few cars nowdays offered with a proper clutch and H-pattern shifter. They say that paddle shifters are better in ultra-high performance cars, but to me, they do nothing to stir my soul.
About the EPBs; My mom's Ford Fusion HYBRID lets you activate it at any speed, at any steering angle. It will automatically release in an ABS-like manner for emergency braking purposes, but if you want to break traction in the back on a turn, you totally can. Still worse than a good-ol' handbrake, but better than most EPBs
reminds me of when I worked security. We had a hybrid camry that I was stuck with, slowest fucking car I've ever driven and I daily'd a car from 1966 throughout high school. Well, the facility I was running parking lot security at closed one night due to this hellacious ice storm that had the parking lots become a solid sheet of ice with a foot or two of snow on top. Like, I'm talking so much snow and ice the car would regularly bottom out. Well, my bored and tired ass kept driving circles around the back of the lot, kinda away from the security camera, until the snow was compacted down and fused with the ice. Turned off TC, spun the steering wheel real hard, and managed to drift a woefully underpowered hybrid FWD family sedan. Oh sweet jesus, had I been in my Suburban in that, with no other cars to hit, and plenty of room to do some real stupid shit, I'd have had a blast. I coulda done it, it was parked right there at the other end of the lot with all the other security officers' vehicles, but it was very close to the security camera of that parking lot and I didn't want to risk being caught swapping vehicles so I could commit the cardinal sin of having fun on company time.
The shifter on my Yaris hybrid doesn't have an "S" mode. Instead it has a "B" mode for ekstra braking power on steep inclines (uses the MG1 electric motor to spin the engine at high revs with the ignition off to use the compression for braking to avoid brake fade). In Denmark where I live, there isn't a single location where it's usefull (Denmark is quite flat), so I doubt that I will ever use it.... Sound? There's something quite special about the sound of an Atkinson cycle I3. :)
Electronic ebrake is frankly a wilful disregard for safety. I've had brake failure happen in a vehicle i was driving. Having a hand lever ebrake is what prevented a crash.
All of the things mentioned in this Video are my arguments for driving a Peugeot 205 Gti from 1987 haha. Its Kinda my daily but i dont want to daily it anymore just because I want to preserve it. Expecially now with winter coming. I loved that part talking about car feel and engine noise. I can relate so much haha Good video
6:46 I would also like to point out that most cars on the road aren't performance cars and dont make that much noise, so it's pretty much silencing a category of cars that you already only hear once or twice a day
Ok I do have a counter point for the exhaust speakers, at least for quieter engines it would help with feedback, like the Cushman I drive at work, if the AC is on I can't hear the engine at all. That's about all I have for the cabin speaker crap(I know it's used for trucks and sports cars). I do think it would be cool to have customizable speaker units for electric vehicles, at least the motorcycles. It'd be neat to have one sync a saw wave to the speed of the motor, annoying as hell if a whole mob ride is doing it, but it'd be cool to have that option available.
3:28 from my experience with them if you hold the button for 10 second it will activate while the car is moving i mean thats to long to save yourself but you can activate it
about the electronic parking brakes: most cars have a brake assist that recognises when you hit the normal brake really hard bot not exactly hard enough for an emergency brake, and do an emergency brake themselves. it works really well and can still use ABS while braking, unlike a parking brake. That way the electronic one is actually a safety feature to prevent you from dying because you can still steer during an emergency brake instead of drifting
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of electronic handbrakes either. Besides being more expensive, less reliable and heavier, they're also removing a little bit of control I have over the car. If I pull on my handbrake, I konw it's on and unless someone else loosens it, it is gonna stay on. Simple control: pull lever, apply brake. Not push or pull a thing and HOPE the electronics do what you want them to do.
to be fair a car with an aftermarket exhaust equivalent to what motorcycle riders use would be louder than said motorcycle but it's definitely not as cheap
I don't need fake exhaust in the speakers. It would detract from blasting the glorious sounds that is Slayer, Anthrax and Motorhead. I will also prefer a proper manual transmission until the day I die. Flappy paddles are not manuals. They are automatics that are told when to shift. I could do that with the GM Hydromatic in my '70 Firebird, aka badass first car, even though I couldn't find a manual. Today I drive a 20 year old Miata and when I look at new cars, I love it that much more.
That said, I’d buy a car if the startup sound is the transformers sound. I like the sleek futuristic aesthetic but the turn knob should only be relegated to radio which actually works for me. Did you get HoF?
About the lowered redline. In Europe this is being sold as a "soft-limiter", with the intent of lowering noice pollution. You'd have to be revving your engine a lot at idle to blow it up. How would it even be safe to rev up to redline when in gear but not at idle? Please explain why because I can't seem to grasp the difference
Heh, my 89 taurus has none of these No noises (probably because i removed something i wasn't supposed to 😅) No idle limiter No electronic parking No artificial exhaust sound And still got my stick My 2015 taurus only has the startup sounds, so it still does better than most "high end" cars😁
The electronic e brake thing I have to agree 100% about because I have it on my fk8, it feels super weird to use it and I was the most confused person ever when seeing it. Do I push it? Do I pull it?
traction control Stablity control ABS Automatic high tech plastic Mercedes like repair and maintaining costs eco based car engines and design i could live without these things. a perfect example a dodge viper 2005
"electric parking breaks break more" Me *looks at 11 year old golf* wonders when its parking break or auto-hold will cock up, guess am just lucky i duno
Try doing a hill start with an e-brake or foot brake. Yeah, I'm old but all those 'Options'? - I just want to go for a drive, not set the temperature of the cupholders.
True story, I'm a car dummy. When I bought my first car, a hybrid hyundai, I actually sat there for a minute, before calling a friend to figure out where the fuck my handbrake was. It wasn't an electronic brake, so I was baffled, like wtf? Turns out it was a foot brake. ... I am an idiot.
One you forgot: electrification. Please for the love of god, don’t force me to get a lifeless car with all these heavy ass batteries. Electronic Power Steering and all the other modern shit is bad enough, please don’t take away my transmission and ability to drive a car that that would make Colin Chapman proud.
@@andre7089 I’ve driven multiple Teslas, Tesla is the main brand my criticism is aimed towards. My dad has a Model 3 that I talked him into getting because I knew he’d like it, I’ve driven his and a few other Teslas multiple times. It’s a piss poor handler, not exactly tossable and it’s not fun to me because I don’t care much about straight line acceleration. Also the brakes are notoriously bad for a car so quick-not to mention heavy-and it’s really noticeable when you’re pushing it.
Would love to see a scientific study that proves that touchscreen takes your eyes off the road longer than buttons and dials. Guarantee touch screens are a fail for driver attention when it really matters.
@@wilhufftarkin8543i know im late as fuck, but im about to get my license and after practicing on a modern car, absolutely agree On top of all the other issues, you also have to fumble around a bunch of menus that all look different and congusing cause they gotta be all fancy, they also update PAINFULLY slowly, then you click on the wrong setting cause you hit a bump, then you gotta go back to find the righ-- aaand you're wrapped around a tree W h y is this a thing Gimme the fuckin buttons
I'm still wondering why the automotive safety agencies just ban cars not having analog controsl for nessicary functions to make cars safe(such as windshield wipers, E-Brake, Hood latch, Climate control, and door locks)
In the Tesla video I linked, the dude spent 5minutes and 21 seconds on the Intro before getting to the point. Thankfully, I linked the video EXACTLY to the point, to save y'all some time.
Hand brakes! -You can engage it instantly -It doesn't do the weird "pweeeeb" when you engage it -You actually feel good using it -KRRRR -use it on turns for some extra fun
"Some dude named Kyle in the woods smashing a monster energy drink." As someone named Kyle... I can coffirm that. People doesn't know how to appreciate those noises tho.
I really will miss the turning of a key, hearing all the electronics booting up before the engine comes to life in style, also the satisfying sound the hand brake makes when you pull it after parking, really made the experience of the car better. Edit: fixed some grammar and made the sentence more bearable to read
The Ford message about driving safe and obeying traffic laws and shit reminds me of those messages you'd get at the beginning of old Need For Speed games.
Hi I'm Brooke Burke, and I play Rachel Teller in Need For Speed Underground 2. Playing a racer in the game was a lot of fun - but on the streets, I make sure to drive safely and responsibly. When it comes to racing, make sure you only do it on the streets of Underground 2. So remember to always use your seat belt and obey the laws of the road.
Hi i'm Josie Maran, and i play Mia in Need for Speed Most Wanted. Make sure you do all your racing in the game. On the streets, drive safely and responsibly, and wear your seatbelt.
@@nthgth It's a lot more than that, some have open worlds some don't you should try them out, there are dozens of different games that all are different, even in handling i recommend you start with the ps2 games, on chronological order of release, the games released before that point are like hot pursuit 2, wich doesen't have a story
@@matthewbarabas3052 It's probably the suburban Karens who want every car to look like a luxury SUV with screens on every available surface. I'd take a car with a VFD display in the radio and physical sliders/buttons/switches over this stupid touchscreen crap where you gotta press the same GUI button over and over again because the screen won't detect your finger.
The saddest thing about the electroninc parking brake is that, most people I know (people that don't care about their cars at all) prefer it because it's "convenience" of not forgetting to put it, as their car automatically applies the electronic parking brake when the car is set to Park, and that lead me to think that, if you forget to put your handbrake every time you park, probably you shouldn't be driving at all, but that just means that it's going to stay
If that day comes where there isn't a functional emergency parking brake anymore, I'll prepare 2 big stones. One for braking, one for the back of the wheel, then get that stone from the brake foot and put it on other side at the back of the wheel.
Is this some kind of american joke I'm too european to understand. Jokes aside, what the fuck? The land of the free, yet they don't even trust you to not do anything stupid unless you sign your life away every time you start up your car? Meanwhile over here the only time I've seen a safety message on the screen is in a Volvo, everything else is just *_turn key/push button -> start_*, no bullshit
@@maxcchiru nah. its just modern cars from 2010s playing a video of a car logo spinning or showing the car whenever u start it up and no im not american im canadian
@@maxcchiru that's not exclusive to America by the way; *modern* cars from 2010 onward play an animation before letting you use the touch screen for the radio controls, GPS, settings, what have you _regardless of nation._
@@Ivannbeats Uconnect has it on the main infotainment screen at start-up. After driving a few rentals and talking to people, apperantly its one of few that just goes away on its own as opposed to holding your music hostage until you tap 'accept' lol
And it's not going to help with climate change much at all. It's basically all so smug people can feel more smug. They'd love to take away our passions to feel better about themselves.
If that happens at all, I think it's going to take a long while. People are stubborn. And on a positive note, if most cars are electric, then gas prices will go down.
3:50 i could imagine the car manufacturers be like "it's gotta look aerodynamic on the inside too" like what, there's no running air going through the cabin other than the AC
The reason why most companies use Electronic Hand-Brakes is because they break earlier than normal ones, which then sends most people into the dealership to buy another car.
Thankfully here in Asia manual is still the preferred one, both because manual cars are cheaper than automatic ones of the same model and there is a widely believed myth that manual cars are more fuel efficient.
I just run my exhaust directly into the cabin to stop noise pollution. But I think it's a too loud, because I start getting lightheaded after driving for a few minutes.
All I want is a basic car, nice interior, good engine and brakes, and that’s it, no “fancy” electronics like lane keep assist, I just want a car, not a white good.
@@hazda5791 This, though I'll say depending on manufacturer and trim? 2014 is the absolute latest for me. Some of the stuff is ok. Most of it I can seriously live without. MDS, lane keep assist (especially the type that literally yanks the car for you. STOP IT!)
@@attila535 like, what's the point of these? You have a radio, you have several dials for your intricate climate system in your 2000 ish car, you set up your car with seat, mirror placement (everything instinctively where it should be), you start the car and go on your business, what else do people need? Look at the fuckin road, not a screen, it's sickening how cars become instant gratification screen machines, not a transport, or a hobbie, or a sport
I really don’t get the streamlined center console thing, I really like those older touring cars with a huge gear lever and sometimes a hydraulic handbrake
my dad once owned a vw t4 where the gearstick was coming through the floor next to the driver so it was like 50 cm long and the handbrake sat right next to it, with the mechanism completely exposed. looking back from todays cars it really had a lot of charme
Speaking of touring cars, if you insist on replacing the shift knob with a little dial, at least put it on the steering wheel like a race car. And I know they can't because airbags, but the steering wheel still had a million buttons anyway. Put it on the column below the airbag. That column is the only empty part of the steering wheel left.
It’s funny, the car guys in my family love muscle cars. For example, one of my uncles dream car is a mustang boss 429, another uncle is a mustang fastback, then mine which I will probably never get would be a Shelby cobra 427. I could get a replica though.
Can confirm as a pizza delivery driver before I got my first manual I was obsessed with being able to shift from reverse to drive for 3 point turns super fast
I occasionally like manual shifting my automatics while driving, lol. I will say doing it with a console shifter is way funner than on the steering column. :)
I don't mind start-stop, it just annoys me that most vehicles that have it (except hybrids) automatically restart when you put the trans in park or open the door.
One thing I would like is _manual_ cylinder deactivation. Like let me switch it on and off on the fly. Let me even choose how many cylinders! That could be kinda fun. (I'd rather let the ECU decide _which_ particular cylinders to shut down, for firing order/ balance reasons; this is not worth destroying my engine)
Let's all thank the "picky" Auto journalist for calling those shift levers ancient, and even implied those who prefer them to be the cowboy rhetoric or keyboard warriors. Never understood why journalist praised the new fold away lever in the F-150 but putting it back on the column is just devastating.
Honestly I hate the way auto journalists (both on and off RU-vid) have a way of being condescending towards anyone with an opinion that goes against the current market trend. They love to hate on people who are critical of what manufacturers are pushing onto their customers, and in many cases the manufacturers are digging their own holes in the process and then 10 years later the same auto journalists will look back and talk smack about the same things they were praising a decade ago. I will do my best to not let you guys down in the future of car designing.
Bro I am money pitting a fucking Saturn that is as old as me. Got a stick shift, no traction control, no minder chime for things like lights, belt, or abs. It’s raw. And I hate that the media says that about me.
My mother's car has a voice indicator that tells you whenever you go above the speed limit. Most annoying shit I've ever seen, no I don't need to be reminded every time I go 3 mph over shut the fuck up. This kinda shit that supposedly should help make people drive safer, actually just makes me grow even more impatient and angry while driving. If cars actually beeped for something useful that'd be nice.
Meanwhile my dad doesn't put his seatbelt on for several minutes and whenever I'm with him I get to hear the seatbelt notification go off Thankfully it's just a tone and not some automated voice...
It's even worse when the driver already has his seatbelt on but the thing won't stop beeping because the passenger on the front seat doesn't have his seatbelt on, like WTAF
hey bladed i'm from the the UK. Here cars have rev limiters due to Emissions tests and literally every sports car even a hypercar is limited under 3 to 4k rpms
That's a different thing than what he's talking about, you're thinking of ECU-controlled idle valves, he's talking about a low rev limiter when in neutral or clutch in.
@@quillmaurer6563 I’m not talking about what’s in the video I’m talking about shitty carburettors that you have to clean all the time and will never idle right
@@hubertkam7647 True - I had to deal with that on my daily driver VW Beetle. Carb was such a pain in the ass, especially the auto choke that had a habit of getting stuck (and is the component needed for fast idle in warm up, the issue you're thinking of). Eventually got so fed up with it I converted the car to EFI, with an idle valve. Getting that idle valve tuned right wasn't all that straightforward either, but once I got it set right it's doing pretty good. We complain about these silly things they do in cars these days, but modern tech really is nice. I often get the sense many car enthusiasts regard the late 90s to early 2000s as the best era for this balance, cars of that vintage had the useful tech but hadn't started implementing all the silly gadgets, and were still feasible to work on. Felt like the end of the driver-focused and reasonably simple cars. I say this without bias, as my car is from the '70s.
@@quillmaurer6563 I still prefer older cars because there 10 times nicer to drive and are way more fun but I just hate carburettors especially when you have to readjust them every week and then take them apart to clean them that’s why I got a fuel injection kit on my car
@@hubertkam7647 Yeah, I have the same thoughts, and did the same thing - I was about to suggest such before I saw you said you did it. Converted my classic Beetle to EFI, was a great upgrade. Took a lot to get it working, all the glitches sorted out, and tuned optimally, but now it's far better in terms of performance and reliability than a carb could dream of. Also put a turbo on it, which the EFI made far easier - made no changes to anything between the throttle body (did change the throttle body) and exhaust collector aside from those done with a laptop. Manifolds, intake, fuel system, ignition, didn't have to touch any of it. Runs great, I daily it like that, only reliability shortcoming is exhaust gaskets blowing out, and it gets better MPG.
I guess the e in e brake now stands for electric instead of emergency since if you are in an emergency and your battery dies. Guess you're done for Also this video goes deep dude
My last rental was a 2019(?) Corolla which had automatic e-brake initiation. Any time the shifter was slipped in Park the car would do the slight roll but stop short. One look at the dash showed the electronic one was engaged. There's one way to wear it out faster, eh?
@@scr8846 of course. It's a more expensive component, and they get to force you to buy one. A bean counter's dream. Same with most of the other electronic gadgetry.
I would love it if companies limited the rev limiter only when the car is cold, but then remove it once it gets up to temp so that idiots cant smack their engine away from a cold start
Wow I can't believe that people complain that they get woken up in the middle of the night because of some asshole's straight piped Honda Civic using their street as a drag strip at 3am then have the audacity to complain when an electric car hits a blind person who couldn't hear it coming
Bladed, what do u think about the new acura nsx type s i think they improved and made some mayor changes on the look the new type s is growing on me and i want to ask what is your opinion about it?
One thing I can't live without it was optional manual transmission. 90% automatic transmission in Malaysia and 10% of it was manual transmission car's. Plus a radio and infotainment system.
@@shaami8622 most of it are doesn't want to drive manual transmission car. However for me, Manual transmission have merits. If the car batteries was flat out or run out of battery. Just need people to push and driver need to hit the clutch and get in to second gear.
@@shaami8622 That's a legendary car. My mom also have a first generation Proton Saga, after few years selling that car. Manual transmission so much fun. Know how manual transmission merits.
To be fair, manual is cool, but if you want to use it as a daily drive, it's a totally nightmare. So imo, I will use automatic for daily drive while manual for fun
