Cars are getting dumber 

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road work ahead but car doesn’t 😔

THE VALIDATION I FELT with the car lights getting brighter, feels like getting flashbanged going to the grocery store

Once upon a time it was actually illegal to have a TV type screen in a place where the driver could see it and become distracted, like since 1968.

Cars running strictly on software are a pain in the ass. My friends and I rented a some 2023 Nissan SUV on a hunting trip and took it down the wrong road at 3am and wanted to back up, but it wouldn’t let us reverse on a slope because it was too “steep”. We didn’t have a choice but to drive down the entire road and turn around. What the hell - I should at least have an option to reverse.

"its harder to convince people that they have been scammed than actually scamming them"

"I definitely think it's worth 100K" Bro, it CAME with rust on it. The copium couldn't be stronger.

what's hilarious about the tank bit is that the studies about visibility in large vehicles have found that some of these new trucks people are driving around have a LARGER blind spot in front than an M1 Abrams tank

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where they let Homer design an $80,000 car that looks weird and has tons of ridiculous features, and it bankrupts the car company?

I love that you can't use your phone in your car without getting a ticket but it's okay to use the gigantic iPad stuck to your dashboard.

I’m so happy people who aren’t car enthusiasts are finally understanding how terrible new cars are becoming 😭

The thing that got me was that “feature” where they give you “automatic brakes”??? Imagine getting super used to that and then getting in literally any other car.

If you own a company and buy a car that weighs over 6,000 lbs GVW, you can claim 80%+ of the cost as a write-off in year one (even if financed). That's a contributor to why large vehicles are so popular.

We used to be a car review channel. Now we review ipads that are attached to four wheels

I’m imagining his wife at her 9-5 job doing adult stuff while her goofball husband crashes into a very slowly closing gate. Hilarious

this video is way too relatable… the unreasonably bright headlights, the stupid digitalization without considering user experience, ridiculously big cars, AND the FREAKING CYBERTRUCKS that i’ve seen 3 times too many (alsoo I like how you incorporated some research into this video… it’s a cool addition!)

The cybertruck is also a literal death trap. A lot of accidents and incidents with cars need people to break the windows to leave. It’s why several car window breaker type products exist. Now if you have highly shatter resistant glass? Yes, burning, drowning, suffocating, bleeding out, etc will all be much more prevalent in the cybertruck.

Anyone else think seeing a flashing red screen while driving would send you into immediate panic and not help at all?

ironically the cybertruck being bulletproof actually makes it more dangerous. Not just because cars are designed to crumple to absorb the impact but also because If you were to get in an accident that made you unable to open the doors, stronger doors and stronger windows means they're harder to break to get you out of the car.

this unironically turned into a “how car dependent cities affect us but explaining it like i’m 5”

"I know I'm over romanticizing the past a little bit" No. You're really not. Simplicity is beauty. The analogue tech of cars in the past were more convenient, more simple, and more beautiful. "Reinventing the wheel" is the perfect way to put it. Like that $4000 airless basketball.

If I owned a cybertruck I would spend $700 to pretend I didn't own one for a day

It honestly warms my heart and restores a little bit of my faith in humanity to see two complete strangers flip you off just for being in that thing

There's a reason that the cybertruck isn't available in the UK or Europe lol. Well, many reasons actually.

the fact that there are still cars from the 1920s still running and on the road today but a brand new car that was made a couple years ago already having mechanical/ electronic problems after a few thousand miles is hilarious.

If cars started coming with ads, I’d actually have a psychotic break.

Sometimes I’ll turn on my new car and the touchscreen display comes up with a warning message that I need to keep my eyes on the road at all times. It then forces me to press a button on the display to get rid of it, defeating the entire purpose lol

Drew, Im so glad you made this video. Not only are new vehicles full of useless, unnecessary "features", but quality control across the board in all companies have tanked. It's getting to a point where shit features, combined with horrible quality, makes it literally dangerous to be driving new vehicles around.... People need to realize this.

This really makes me appreciate my 2021 Audi A4. Adaptive headlights that move down if someone is in front of you, physical controls for common functions. Practical and luxurious. Don’t believe what your grandpa told you about Audis, they told you to buy a Chevy sonic and now you’re getting rides to work.

The cybertruck looks like you’ll get third degree burns if you touch it in summer.

people see a huge truck plowing through a sedan and instead of thinking "maybe that truck shouldnt be on the road" they think "wow i better be in the truck and not the sedan"

Automotive reviewers have been complaining to manufacturers about lack of buttons for the past decade. But then new buyers are like, "Oh! Big screen!" 🙄The headlight issue is related to the USA's ancient headlight laws. In Europe the have the ability to "shape" headlight beams to avoid oncoming traffic,.

The absolute VALIDATION I felt with the deletion of buttons. It made no sense to get rid of physical buttons, until I learned that it’s simply cheaper

"gay truck" "that's like a truck owners worst nightmare!" hits so hard given every single time someone has yelled a slur out their window at me its always been from a truck

Elon Musk has the mind of a middle school boy. “What is a crumple zone? That’s lame. My super cool super rocket car will never break and it never get dented and it’s bullet proof.”

Push button and dial shifters are an answer to a question nobody asked. Having to go through menus to activate headlights, wipers or heated seats is another item nobody wants. The Cyber truck proves a fool and his money are soon parted.

As a mechanic/Auto Electrician this was very refreshing. A normal person reviewing the driver experience in modern day vehicles. You're a champion of the people Drew ❤

The "Caraoke" thing seems the worst idea you could possibly put in a car. "Yeah, let's add this thing that requires almost constant looking at the screen. It's just for the passengers obviously, I'm sure it's not distracting at all for the driver."

There was a girl on Tiktok where she was STUCK in her Telsa because it was doing a software update. She couldn't get air, she couldn't open up her door, she couldn't start the car and was force to sit in the hot car while it updates.

Giant cars are a Murican problem. They are somewhat rare outside Northern America.

i also recently discovered what new cars are like. went from a 2007 corolla to a 2020 explorer. feels like i drive a spaceship every day.

Drew you do not understand how close this topic is to my heart. The entire reason i decided to become a civil engineer was because i wanted to improve public transportation and city design SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE of how awful cars have gotten and how many pedestrian deaths could be prevented literally just by people using them less. The headlights thing has irritated me for YEARS, i literally cant drive at night anymore because of it, and i frequently stop to take photos of these absolutely gigantic trucks whenever i see them because the hoods are often the same height as me if not taller. These vehicles are a legitimate public safety issue and SOMETHING needs to be done about them.

Love that the cyber truck comes with all-weather floor mats, but that the cyber truck itself is not designed for all weather

My 2022 Tacoma is a 6 speed manual transmission and has an actual emergency brake that isn’t just a button. It’s amazing and I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s also a midsize truck which is about the size of a full size truck from the 90s. Not too big and not too small.

i think that this is your best video. i love your funny stuff about random movies and whatnot, but i think this has an incredible balance of being hilarious in your own specific way and also having really valid criticism of car manufacturing corporations favoring cost and aesthetic in favor of actual safety. plus this is your best ad transition

the PRNDL should never be removed. buttons can be accidentally pressed, the PRNDL cannot be accidentally moved

Removing the shifter is like Apple removing the headphone jack. It's just "hey this is different so it must be innovative"

I am A Mechanic... I am so tired of people pretending old cars are better... that is called survivorship bias. all you see are that old cars are more common because thats what people have and you assume that they must be better at lasting, or work better or be less complicated.Secret is they arent and they never really were overall. Cars were always like this. instead of electronic complexity they had mechanical complexity or they had worse handling or they let you die in a crash instead of crunching to absorb the impact. yeah every once in a while these changes do not stick like the self fastening belt or the stupid alternative shifters, but overall they get better. not that that makes my life easier. tolerances get tighter and honestly the average person proves again and again that they cant handle faster lighter cars. but the cars are not the problem any more than they have ever been and im tired of people who dont work on them and dont understand them saying it.(Btw the reason for the unification of the controls is so that there are fewer complex systems to break,the more unified and simplified the controls are the more reliable the should be. if every car has every control on a muxer control circuit or its own switch it gets ugly, so in most cars its an even trade.) as far as the trucks they should actually require a special license for larger vehicles to prevent this as one persons confidence problem should not be another persons safety problem (Btw tesla is not a car company) its a company that sells stock in the "future of vehicles " that happens to manufacture cars. its driven by a cult of personality and is hiding ungodly numbers of defects and is basically the cryptocurrency of the automarket. not that electrics are bad but this is a cult and should be shut down, because when level heads are not in charge of the company, all the cars are dangerous.

Hot Take - Driving a car SHOULD be hard. You should not EVER be driving a car and think that it is easy. The first 10 minutes of this video have made me absolutely horrified (probably because our family car is always 10-15 years older than what is current tech), because of the complete lack of mechanical utility. A car is a tool, it is a transport, and this absolutely frivolous shit is going to promote even more inattention while driving. This kills people.

the two guys flipping you off simply for driving a cybertruck… iconic, legendary behavior

There is NOTHING I hate more than getting rid of physical buttons for necessary features. AC, volume, and things that you press all the time should be BUTTONS. when you put everything on a touch screen where it’s hard to see with the sun shining on it, it gets hot and processes clicks slowly, and having to fumble all of that while driving is literally the worst thing about new cars.

I appreciate how you use your platform to introduce people to serious issues and creators who go deeper into the topics. Great work Drew

the way Drew actually recorded and edited a video to play on his TV to keep the immersion (even if we only see a few seconds of it)

One thing I HATE about the touchscreens is the glare. If the sun is hitting just right you can't see shit

People are forgetting that all cars should be childproof. Shifting gears should take muscles. Not a button or touch screen. Hand break should take force to apply and release.

I had a dream that Drew made an ad for a like Swiffer wet jet alternative but the gimmick was it had a tiny ass little mop head and to prove how well it mopped he dumped a whole bunch of Coca-Cola and Kool aid on the floor and only could mop up a little bit of it (due to the tiny ass mop head) and then couldn't find the extra larger mop heads so he just did the rest of the ad with a nasty ass little mop head that just smeared Coke and Kool aid all over his floor. How does he come up with this stuff

Solution to small car vs giant trucks: install a 20,000 dollar rally level roll cage in your sedan

As someone who used to work in usability engineering: I have said for years that we need to legislate car interfaces to require physical buttons (that can be distinguished by touch) for all the critical controls, including signals, climate control, and audio volume. The move to touchscreens for basic functionality is, IMHO, criminally reckless.

i swear some of these car companies are in a competition to release the biggest touchscreen 😭 by 2028 they're just gonna replace the windshield like "Oops! All Screen"

All I'm imagining is being stuck on a railroad with cars in front of you.

On the subject of the whole children getting run over thing, we've also fought fire with fire in that regard by basically banning kids from walking anywhere. Our local school district actually requires a parent to either sign their child up for a bus route or drive them to school. There is literally no option to have your kid walk even if you live just across the street. It's madness.

things that make drew upload a video: 1. sponsorship deadline 2. car accident

As a social worker, I have seen victims going back to their abusers in an abusive relationship, They sound awfully like those Cyber truck owners.

Cars are also unnecessarily fast. Tell me why a 4000kg monstrosity needs to do 100kph in 2.5 seconds? I’m a car guy myself but can’t support this. It’s always the reckless, inexperienced clowns speeding down a residential street with kids playing.

I’m a casino valet. I’ve seen a lot of annoying new gear shifts, like buttons and knobs. The buttons are some of the worst. I always have to look at the buttons to make sure I get the right one. While some of the high tech features are neat, it’s mostly more work than it ever needs to be. I’ll take my simple little 2018 Corolla any day

"Frunk misalignment" sounds like one of those fake spaceship malfunctions they came up with in old sci fi

LEDs can be made to be soft and dim , the manufacturers just don't do it

I can't remember the exact reason, but something along the lines of you get lower emissions standards for building large trucks vs. small ones. It's a ridiculous loophole that we should have the dinosaurs we call congress change

When Drew said he made a bad decision and started talking about buying cars, for a single, horrifying moment, I thought he'd bought the cybertruck

Worst thing about the cybertruck is THAT IT DOESN'T FUNCTION AS A PICKUP TRUCK BECAUSE THE TRUCK BED CAN BARELY FIT A SKATEBOARD

Like Scotty once said "The more complex the plumbing is, the easier it is to stop it up".

I work for a car wash detailer. I can't say Ive really look into it, but Im pretty sure all the car wash mode does is put the car in neutral while also keeping the car off. Teslas are dumb and will put on a break when the car is off, so it can damage the cars break if its pushed with breaks on.

36 seconds into the video and I’m already dying at the thought of Drew taking off the “max” part of the logo and having a car that just said “car”. This is peak comedy and nobody can tell me otherwise

The thing that amazes me is replacing a rear view mirror with a camera and screen in the middle of your windshield. You took the simplest, cheapest, most effective mechanism and made it more expensive and added more points of failure. Bravo.

About the headlights: also, people don’t seem to know how to properly adjust their lights so that they actually hit the road and not other cars. When you have more weight in the back of the car (passengers, if you usually don’t have any), you need to adjust them because the back is now slightly lower than usual in order to not shine your lights into someone else’s eyes.

Your gate story is the exact complaint I have about almost every new vehicle I've driven. They try to do the thinking for you. Hit the gas, takes a moment. Want to gun it? Takes a moment. Even the electric steering on new cars is weird and overly sensitive. My daily driver is a first gen Tacoma like the one in your thumbnail. Stick shift, cable throttle, cable A/C controls, roll up windows. It just works, and it does exactly what you tell it to exactly when you tell it to. Toyota sells CHEAP little trucks overseas, that are just modern versions of their older trucks built nearly the exact same way. A/C and power windows optional. Our U.S. government has regulated such things out of the country.

Those two random people flipping you off for being in the cybertruck was the highlight of this video

THE HEADLIGHTS THING IS DRIVING ME CRAZY i look in my rearview mirror and get flashbanged its horrible

The old saying "if it's not broken don't fix it"

As somebody that walks and cycles as much as or more than I drive I am pretty much always terrified whenever I'm anywhere near a road that has motor vehicles, even when I'm in one.

The freaking bright-ass headlights are such a problem. I don't want to have to wear sunglasses while driving at night, it's just ridiculous.

The increase in pedestrian deaths isn't talked about enough and it should be

"you know how most smartphones tend to have at least a few things wrong with them? yea let's do that but 2,000 times bigger" "you're a genius."

At least my 2018 Stelvio still have physical buttons, actual gear selector knob, and no touchscreens

I thought this said cats are getting dumber and felt insulted

The fact that you can get ARRESTED if you talk on the phone while driving, but big screen apart of car!!! IT PART OF CAR!!!

For the part of the video going over truck sizes, I'm surprised you never went over CAFE laws and the Chicken Tax since they have directly led to where we are at.

I love how honest you are about your own mistakes. Your sense of humor kills me. 😂

Fun fact: cars (especially trucks) keep getting bigger so that car manufacturers don't have to meet emission standards. It's easier to make a bigger car than re-engineer a fuel efficient engine

It pisses me off to think about that we're RIGHTFULLY not meant to look at a phone or be distracted on the road yet car companies are simultaneously putting every feature onto what's effectively a giant phone screen Genuinely horrendous practice

Usually when RU-vidrs start advertising something, I just clicked the fast forward button rapidly until it’s all over but I actually watched yours.

"An eye for an eye..." A gun for a gun... A truck for a truck... And so it goes.

wipers on a touch screen is CRAZY

A problem like accelerator pedal getting stuck shouldn’t exist in a car whose creator claims to know more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet.

The shift from PRNDL remindes me of how keyboards have the 'qwerty' pattern because of typewriters, and theres not teally a particular reason to have this seemingly random pattern of letters on a keyboard now (except, you know, the fact that a whole lot of people would have to re-learn how to type because muscle memory)

I love my 2008 Audi. PRNDL, paddle shift. Still modern enough to be proud. I have a Tesla company car. It took me 15 minutes to turn the AC on. Whenever I think of getting a new car, I think of this and just deal with my 16 year old car

It pisses me off how people driving huge trucks refuse to slow the fuck down, even in my neighborhood that HAS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN IT. Sure the speed limit is 30, but your car takes eight years to slow down and stop if a kid runs out in front of you.

I worked in an insurance agent's office. We had an auto claim called in for some who owned just a normal Tesla. They hit a cow. The Tesla caught fire. The cow walked away.

4:20 - car's are getting bigger not just because they can. It's because CAFE fuel efficiency requirements are the least restrictive for massive cars over a certain weight, so manufacturers realized they can save a ton of money by putting out bigger, less fuel efficient more polluting cars than engineering smaller more clean fuel efficient ones. Greed and profit motive strike again

This video is like watching my dad complain about his modern car with the touch screen