Why Cars Today Suck 

Thats true

It's sad to see practically every sector focusing on newness instead of actual innovation tbh

Politicians and laws

Apple started that trend of making computers idiot proof that only make dumber idiots.

@@FutureProofTV yes... it sucks we need to go back to simpler cars again and actual innovation

Not everything, but it is getting far and few between to find high quality products. If we want to hold onto humanity instead of becoming enslaved worker ants, we have to make that effort while we still can. For example, the average human brain size has actually been significantly shrinking over the past few thousand years. People don't like to talk about that though. It makes them uncomfortable.

@@WR3NDthat’s a mute point. Relative Brainsize doesn’t always correlate with intelligence.

yes! an unfortunate truth of the current consumer market, and sometimes feels inescapable

True 😩

@@sbocaj22 That's called "rationalization." It's challenging for people to accept how stupid they actually are. The idea of progress has been brainwashed into us as a product of civilization.

We’ve had flying cars for a while. It’s called helicopters.

@@SamuelMM_Mitosis 🤓

@@SamuelMM_Mitosis Flying cars have actually existed since the 1920s. Although, you probably wouldn't want to be in one

By cheap ones. It is way cheaper to put everything into screen and/or some touch panel then produce a hundred different knobs and buttons, get all wiring etc. But I still hope that EU at some point will push some safety requirements controls.

And these days you have 3 slightly different color virtual knobs on your 15" control panels with smallest pissible font size defining them

Exactly. I'm forced to look down just to change the ac as it's all touchscreen.

Please!!!

Ongawdd please

Yes! Everything is on subscription today, and it’s maddening! If I save up and buy a product, I want to own it! I still purchase CD’s and DVD’s just to know, I have the physical media, and it stays mine.

Please and thank you

On top of subscriptions, maybe a video about better forms of transport and what’s keeping them back

Stupid cafe giving us turbo cvt engines with DI really suck.

Yup. The tech stopped at sensors. People drive computer-operated mechanical components now. Don’t buy new shit if you can help it. You simply can’t do any meaningful work on them in your garage now.

My 1994 S Class Mercedes was the best car ever made by humans. Every model after that got worse, less quiltiy more electronics - I gave away my last one, a 2012 5.0L V8 S Class Coupe it had so many electrical problems it was unsellable

A lot of the 'old cars are more reliable' sentiment is down to survivorship bias. Most of the old cars you see on the road are the reliable ones because the unreliable old cars (of which there are many) are rusting away in junkyards, or have long since been crushed into cubes.

@@Hanstra Maybe true in Am3ric4 cos you make a lot of s h ! t cars. But almost ANY European or Japanese car from 1995 to 2005 is capable of 400k miles with basic servicing. My mother and sister had my old Audi 100's - both did 450k miles.

Thank you. A Star Trek tng shuttlecraft console would be better, but they're able to look down at what they're doing to mess with the touchscreen. I get nervous when I need to adjust the temperature inside since I need to look away from the road (touchscreen)

If you're involved in the most minute fender-bender your insurance is likely to chalk the vehicle up as a "total," essentially forcing you into getting another [new] vehicle, unless you can navigate the lengthy and perilous journey to "retain and salvage title" the vehicle. And this doesn't even address the giant pickups that are 5 feet high in the front with no FORWARD-facing camera to see what - or who - you might be running over.

I love Tesla touchscreens! They're perfectly responsive and I find them very helpful

How are touchscreens in cars not a safety issue? I must look to see what I'm doing just to adjust the temperature. Nothing wrong with slides, levers, buttons, and toggle switches.

Thank Elon Musk for that innovation, the big 3 did.

Hackers will figure out how to bypass it

Yeah if the heater is there, I have a soldering iron that says I can activate it through an old school switch + fuse, subscription or not!

@@V4mpyrZ 😂💯

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

I've been getting into urbanism and city planning and road design in the US and Canada is awful. Roads are not fundamentally designed with a speed in mind so you get wide lanes, smooth roads, and straight stretches that encourage high speeds and then we wonder why our roads are dangerous. Design speed is a thing traffic planners here need to start learning. We have roads designed for a speed of 50 mph with a 25 mph speed limit sign slapped on it

Sounds like corners and speed bumps have a lot in common!

All of those factors along with mis-timed traffic lights led to many drivers where I live to just floor it or engage in road rage if any sort of delay happens. Then again, sometimes you just have really bad people who happen to drive cars.

Yeah, and the thing is, curvy roads are _more fun to drive on_ than straight ones too. Even at the speed limit, a really nice car and a curvy road will turn anyone into an enthusiastic driver.

@@rtmpgt Totally. I'm a huge fan of curvy mountain roads and finally have cars that are very fun to drive on them. I've never felt in danger on even the curviest of mountain roads (which is US 191 in eastern Arizona). It's the long, straight freeways that have lulled me nearly to sleep before.

or you can make your own car with a couple of parts and super glue, if it gets a to b its a car

Same! Except personally I really like the power adjustable seats because I’m disabled and it’s just not safe to adjust the seat while driving especially with my spine issues

the loss of the tactile knob/button specifically feels like a huge blow tbh

I drive a 2010 VW Golf that is still working perfectly. Manual transmission, physical buttons, a very small non touch screen, manually adjustable seats and mirrors... It's great! It could be even more manual for me though. I once had a problem with the door and it costed a fortune to fix, since the thing is full of wires for the speakers and electric windows. In the 90s and 2000s my father had the perfect car. Pretty much everything was manual. Only the radio and cassette player were 'modern electronic devices'. The car was a bit smaller than people would like now and the back seats didn't have headrests, but overall it was amazing.

When I got my license I ended up taking my dad’s old car (also 2008) and when my brother started driving a few years later he ended up getting a new 2022 car. My mother kept telling me “I’m glad you’re not jealous of your brother because we got him a new car” and I went “if right now you offered me a choice between his car and mine I would still choose my car every time.” My car was the first car I’ve driven, the car I got my license in. It has an absolutely timeless look and feel that I genuinely think it looks better than the current year version of its model. It has a CD player for my collection and if I want to play stuff on my phone I just use my Bluetooth to FM converter. Good trunk space for a sedan and nice ac. New enough to feel nice to drive but not so new that it’s overly complicated. I’ll drive it till the wheels fall off.

Same! But a 2009 mk2 Ford Focus estate. There's very few new tech or feature my or my family need or want (I'm an IT architecture and developer so know a thing or two about software defined X). The things that could be good (better sound proofing, EV drivetrain, some extra cm of space for my 6' and growing boys in the back etc) will have the huge downsides around subscriptions, software, serviceability, short lifecyle for software updates and so on attached..

Yes, but Mexican labor has reduced the MSRP so much, now anybody can afford a new car every few years. So what if you have to pull an engine to replace a water pump?

They just want people to buy... and buy again... and buy again... and buy again and again... never ending purchases. 💰💰

@@crankychris2 Thanks for telling us that you’re full of shit and never worked on a vehicle. Seriously

Cyber truck is the best truck you can ever buy whether you are a truck guy or not . Has been confirmed by the best engineers like sandy Munro, you don't know what you are talking about

@@electricvehiclesug256 dude, just shut up 🤐

that sounds like an ass backwards country. personal vehicles allow you to go anywhere you choose in the country, public transit has limited routes available. That's not civil or developed, that's enslavement to a system you must be dependant on, Roads are everywhere and can be made out of anything.

​@@Mike-jv8bvdid you know that the US has the largest network of railroads in the world? Unfortunately most of it is used exclusively for commercial purposes. Most people in North America think that cars are the end all be all of transportation methods, shows how much the car industry has brainwashed and taken advantage of us. Sure cars are more versatile, at the cost of cost, safety, and efficiency.

That's something I love about my new-ish Mazda, which uses a physical knob to control things. There's a screen but it isn't a touch screen.

I do actually like touchscreen. But I think all the essentials should have physical buttons. I think we actually need regulation and research as to what those minimal physical controls are.

I think the last good corolla to get for replacing the radio was the 2013 and older generation. But I really like LED headlamps lol.

@@stephencoakley This is why I'm buying an ND Miata as my next car! Mazda and Toyota have pretty much nailed interior controls :)

In the late 80's, The digital "revolution" was introduced to home stereos. It was terrible as all the knobs and switches were replaced with tons of buttons.

The fact than an old iPod classic is more moddable and repairable than most iPhones is scary.

Giant screen is fine. Removing buttons/knobs for critical functions is not.

No sensor is needed for the blind spot. Just turn your head a little bit more.

Blind spot is a byproduct of silly shape vehicles

pretty much this ... there are sensible inovations and there are marketing gimmicks ... the problem is, we get a lot more of the later forced on us ...

@@AlienLivesMatter Cars have always had blind spots, except for convertibles with the top down.

This is why I'm bucking the trend and buying a Miata. Perfect for couples, two seats, really tiny, really efficient, plenty fun for the twisty backroads, practical enough to hold a week's shopping in the boot, fast enough to get out of its own way. Big SUVs are stupid. A family could easily live out of a Mazda 3 or any similar car from any other brand.

What's more, the Rhode Island DMV had the audacity to reneg on Kei teuck ownership, and their excuse is that the tiny, nimble, fuel efficient things are "a danger to the drivers and those around them." Ah, great! please proceed with revoking the registration for all modern pickups for having front ends like brick walls.

this is mostly a american problem , in europe car dimensions stay relativelly simmilar to the previous decades

US government fuel economy rules actually encourage larger, longer vehicles. And safety mandates make them heavier. Hilarious but true.

​@@MrRafagigaprI don't think so. A current Mercedes C class is bigger than a W124 E class.

Same with my MX-5 ND - it's an incredibly simple car. It's a forever car for me too.

Is that Olds 442 getting prettier every year, or are today's cars just getting uglier?

or worse, a mistake in the computer system flagged the car as being late on a payment. These are the sort of features that would instantly remove a car from my potential buy list, even if I've never missed a car payment in my life.

Also what's to stop them from taking the car even if you did pay the entire thing off, and then sold it to someone else, but the system thinks it's stolen due to a different GPS location?

I bet you a million bucks that if Ford activates this feature and the car crashes into another car during its drive to the dealer, the dealer will absolutely say it's the fault of the person who paid late.

Hahah, reposessors are going to have a field day with that one.

Not if I take the wheels off and put it on bricks.

SUVs and their body shapes were literally the orginal body style for cars though back in the early 1900s. We have just returned to form. Plus sedans and such keep getting less and less practical being slammed to the pavement and less usable. Not to say SUVs and crossovers are all perfect. Many do in fact sucked.

I'm sorry the things you like are being replaced, yet "dumb consumers" would not be consuming if they don't like the changes

@@lester9230 As a "Dumb consumer" I'll enjoy my new Miata knowing that it'll be more fixable than any other modern car for at least the next decade or so. Always buy a car with an avid enthusiast community backing it, as the aftermarket will always be there to develop fixes for common issues with a vehicle.

Cars enthusiasts can't have cheap cars anymore, the best one I can think of Mazda 3.

@@GF-mf7ml Mazda MX5! It's cheap-ish, uses the same engine as the Mazda 3 does.

Where ya been? :)

As someone who loves big trucks, I’m all for manufacturers offering small affordable trucks. Not everyone needs or wants something huge, and I’d love to see the extra options. I also wish diesels were more common in the mid size truck segment too.

CAFE. Talk about 'unintended consequences'. What a shitshow those regulations have caused.

Because its getting leased not bought, also trade ins. Majority of avergae people cant afford a 30k-20k car so what do they do, they trade in their car plus like what 5k a year or something? Which then becomes more manageable to pay. Also since they are new means lower break downs, less headaches and looking for a mechanic.

@@semekiizuionot always the case. My 2004 toyota sienna has far fewer maintenance issues than my parents new Subaru Outback.

@@sbocaj22 thats true but once in the loop of the trade in, its difficult to get out. By that I mean its easier to get a shiny new car rather then keeping and old one and paying it off.

unfortunately a lot of people aren't willing to keep up with the regular maintenance an older car needs and would rather trade cars in than worry about it. convenience culture at its finest i guess!

It's nothing new. It dates back decades. The Japanese tried to break that model with ultra reliable cars but people want new and shiny.

What Czechnology you got?

@@deffington6627 it was a Skoda Felicia!

@@isabelsenas3711 Ah, those were made from 1994. So after Czechoslovakia separation. I thought you got something from the commie times :D Felicia was a good car for the years tho, light years ahead from old commie Skoda cars.

@@deffington6627 I don't remember which year was it made, but in the docs it said Chezchoslovakia. Maybe they recicled some papers? No idea. Yes, my Felicia was a tank, hard as hell 😂

@@deffington6627 Commie cars were just meant as a last resort type thing though. You never needed a car in Soviet or eastern bloc states unless you lived in a rural area. Despite that the VFTS was a thing and I've seen people crank out well over 200hp N/A from the VAZ 1.6L engines. Plus the 2.45L in the Volga was just a military multifuel engine slapped in a civilian car. They literally run forever on nearly anything with the most half-assed maintenance you can imagine. They suck to drive though lol. Fun as a novelty or when you've turned one into a rally machine, but otherwise super disconnected and 0 feel of whats going on. They last a good while but so does a mid 90-s to early 2000's BMW and those things are objectively better in a lot of aspects (especially ergonomics) than most modern cars so....

chevy vs toyota engineering lmao

It's your own fault for buying a GM product. You have no right to complain.

Start/stop systems use different starters and have an actual control circuit for them than old "regular" starters. They last 4x as long as a normal starter would because it puts less load on the starter. But given the fact you bought a GM product I wouldn't expect them to have given a single crap about that so enjoy replacing that in the future!

When my mother bought her Buick Envista I drilled it into her that she always has to push the start stop disable button, every time she gets in the car. She never drives without doing it.

Wait am i reading that correctly? If the CEL comes on, it shuts off the damn car???

But they are literally 3 times as efficient. A good new fridge or freezer can pay for itself on an emissions basis in a year or two. And there _are_ companies that make fridges that are both well-made _and_ efficient and will last a good 20 years. So yeah, avoid the cheapest stuff, but don;t put off getting a new fridge because your old one has 'lasted for ages. In that case the chances are that your old one is horrifyingly inefficient.

It should have a car wash mode for that, but that's besides the point and doesn't change anything lol

@@sprockkets to be fair, it might. 😆 My parents aren't well versed in all that car's bells and whistles and I certainly haven't perrused it's giant user manual. Good Lord you should see it. It's at least and 1.5 inches thick!

@@sprockkets which is probably hidden in 5 or 10 submenus.

Yeah have fun driving in northern US winters with a scooter or bike. For northerners unfortunately there's zero alternative to cars and trucks and we have to put up with this backwards evolution.

Even old spaceships had levers, knobs, and buttons

My 2009 Grand Marquis says hold my beer!

Same. 2013 Yaris. People look at me like I've never driven a "nice" car, or I'm poor, which is even more sad. Kinda gold though as I have a built R34 GTR that runs 9's to destroy their dear hearts with if needed. I cannot fathom why you would want a bloody 5 tier menu screen to try and change simple settings.

Yes but just like tuning your car it's probably going to be outlawed

"void warranty" = enslaved owners It worked before, it will work again.

Good luck to them. lol

That just means you suck at driving

Saved my life probably lol I remember it was dark and foggy and I couldn’t see in the camera and for a whole ass second I was wondering how I was gonna see behind me without the screen 😂

I got hit because backup cameras don't have peripheral vision. By all means, use it, but not exclusively.

I use my backup camera as another window I check. Check the side windows, the rear view mirror, and the backup cam. When used that way I think it increases situational awareness and safety a lot, especially for vehicles where the design gives you a pretty narrow field of view through the rear window.

I can drive.

moreover when the electronics in the backup cameras fails or will be hacked somehow over the internet because of unlimited security exploits - people will no longer have skills to use rear view mirrors.

I have 2 EV's, one 12 year old and the other 6. Zero maintenance and repair on the drivetrain. We are getting there regardless of what bells and whistles are in the cabin.

I assume they're either older Teslas or Nissan Leafs? Leafs are surprisingly fixable. Nissan at least opened up the comms protocol making battery swaps and upgrades fairly easy. It's a shame they're not a liquid cooled battery...

That’s the problem - cars are now deliberately complex to ensure that owners have to take them back to the dealer for servicing, and are less durable to ensure that drivers keep on renewing their lease deals every 2-3 years.

The car makers only put features into cars that actually sell and bring money. If a feature is in a car, it is either mandated by law, or by customer requests. The drivetrain itself is really sorted out for decades now. The thing is: Many people just don't adhere to the maintenance schedules - especially in the USA.

IMO it will happen only if they will be forced by regulations. Every single piece of electronics is their grab of the ownership of the car (and in general device) and also a grab of your money via their preferred repairs.

I'm reminded of a sewing machine backstitch xD

What was the car

I'm just retiring my 1997 Expert van(because its kind of knackered, and increasingly Euro 2 engines are not allowed to go places). The last year cars were entirely electromechanical. Having to deal with computers full of proprietary software is going to piss me off royally. It's not the computers per se - it's the fact that none of the software is available to adjust and fix. It's all locked-down. I may have to build my own EV eventually to get a modern vehicle that I can still control.

@@xxwookey What EU state are you from? I'm from Romania and I'm still driving my Euro 3 diesel (manual transmission) car. Planning on driving it for the next 20 years at the very least. I've had it for 10 years now.

Additionally, maybe I'm a bit over-imaginative but in an emergency scenario, you can just drive a car where you need to go. Whether that be to a friend or family member's house at 3am for an emergency, an unplanned visit to the hospital, or even in an apocalyptic scenario you can just go off-road with the right vehicle and get out of dodge. Public transportation isn't very helpful in any of those scenarios. I'd be a bit nervous about not owning a car, even if I did use public transit most of the time.

@@stephencoakley A study in the US found out that this 'emergency' thinking is fully half the value a lot of Americans place on their car. In places with good public services of course you have (free) ambulances for the health emergency at any time of day or night and high-capacity transit which would get you out of town in most emergencies faster than a massive queue on the motorway. Cars are useful of course, especially for out-of-the-way journeys, building you whole transport system around future potential or hypothetical emergencies is quite odd when you think about it. Those things are incredibly rare in comparison to all the normal day-to-day trips people make.

Yes another downside of public transportation is that you have to get to the transit station. And sometimes it's pretty far from your house. Also one transit station is quite remote from another connecting transit station. i solved all this problem by having a folding bicycle to ride to and from transit stations (and take the folding bicycle onboard), but it's not a feasible solution for everyone.

Another reason that is actually less talked about is that apparently in cities, women feel genuinely unsafe on public transportation and report that basically, if they are at all attractive or feminine, they will get harassed on the bus or subway to the point that they'd rather deal with traffic and the cost of car ownership to avoid that problem. So even if you get a public transit system to the point where a lot of men can use it to save money, it's a far cry from being to the point where women would feel safe on it.

I am sure this is less an issue outside USA

Be glad they aren’t built like they used to be.

@@williamwilson6499 why

​@@williamwilson6499 When a new Mercedes S class literally broke down within 2-5 years when the w140 is still running just fine The same thing basically goes to every other cars on the road today. Your statement is like shouting "I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CARS!!!"

@@williamwilson6499 bodies are built to a better standard, engines are more efficient and in some cases more reliable (Depending on things like the injection system etc), but they're also harder to fix. To me, mid 2010s is kinda the sweet spot. You got the last of the proper port-injected cars, modern diagnostics, easily accessible engine bays and still a good presence of manual gearboxes available.

​@@rtmpgtyou can build better without all the electronic clusters that can fail or get damaged or proprietary parts/software

Make it using the parts from your Model S! AEM EV does a bunch of really cool stuff for Tesla Model S LDUs and Stealth EV makes a DIY conversion to plug into Thunderstruck BMSs to allow Model S modules to talk to AEM controllers.

The thing is, you're not the problem. You clearly have a thorough understanding of how cars work and how they should be driven, and I don't think it's a stretch to assume you're a capable and attentive driver. Mustang, Stingray, Tesla, Ram, Sprinter, doesn't matter- you can probably drive any of them competently and safely, because you already have a baseline of car knowledge and driving skills. The problem is non-enthusiast drivers with no interest in *driving* cars, only in *owning* them as appliances and *riding* in them as they are transported to their destination with the minimum possible amount of human input. These people shouldn't be on the road in the first place, and in countries with good alternative transport options (trains, trams, buses, etc) they wouldn't be. But in the US, we a) don't usually provide practical public transport options, and b) are so obsessively individualistic that many car owners simply reject the idea of traveling anywhere in a vehicle that is shared with anyone else and not a privately owned personal cocoon. The self-driving trend is going to be cataclysmic for urban planning and traffic management, as it will encourage even more people to get on the road. Even if we pretend that autonomous cars will be 100% safe and accident-free, they are by definition going to result in more vehicles than ever on our roadways, exactly at a time when virtually every urban area in the country is trying to tackle record levels of congestion. The only solution would be to intentionally make cars more difficult to drive, retaining the current safety features but reverting the driving experience back to the 80s or 90s so that cars will once again require undivided attention and a degree of driver skill to operate competently. Only people who actually want to drive will do so, and everyone else will find alternative methods of transportation. But since this will never happen, I don't think there is an actual solution. Tl;dr you're not the problem, and we're screwed no matter what.

​@@its_cleanI support public transportation, but I also support people buying what they want with their own money. Comments like this are well-meaning, but come off as judgmental and almost fascistic...

@@vulpixelful Judgmental, sure, but fascistic? That's not what that word means. To be clear, I'm not advocating for any particular government policy here. I'm merely pointing out what I consider to be a problem: people who don't actually care to own cars or drive, but who feel compelled to do so because their society (American or otherwise) does not provide viable alternatives, and because their culture has conditioned them to believe that they are entitled to be transported exclusively in a private vehicle, and that any form of shared transportation is some combination of undesirable, low-class, socialist, unsafe, or inefficient.

@@its_clean I'm left-leaning, but "making cars harder to drive" would be reverting progress, and reminiscent of the Soviet union or modern North Korea going on and an about "western decadence" as an excuse to lower the quality of life of its citizens because that would allow them the stuff their slush funds more and more. So yeah, that stuff comes across as fash-y. And also isn't a compelling case that will convince most people, putting aside how unrealistic it is. Public transportation has the potential to be compelling enough to win over most of the public without regressing the tech in individual vehicles. There will always be holdouts with any societal change (the comments on this video represent quite a few of them!).

How do you like that car payment? 😅

@@Madamchief it’s not that bad actually lol

@@wa11pon33 I want a Tacoma but a car payment of any sort just sounds awful right now. I gotta stick with my little old Camry til she quits which could be another 20 years 😂

@@Madamchief that’s fair lol I’ve just always had a car payment since I bought my first car so I’m used to it. But since I bought the Tacoma I want to pay this one off and run it into the ground because it’s going to be reliable enough!

@@wa11pon33 the electronics will give out sooner than the motor. You'll get at least 250k out of it💪

A typewriter changed your life?

Bro mechanical typewriters are very tiring to use vs today's keyboards (edited). You really want a manual typewriter instead of a powered one? If you really want to connect and engage your brain, use your hand and a pen or pencil.

@@sprockketsI like writing by hand.

@@sprockkets Bro computers caused lots of hand injuries due to repetitive stress syndrome.

@@piccalillipit9211 nowhere near as bad vs mechanical ones

Oh, Dodge is making an EV that sounds just as loud as their gas cars. F em.

I mean, to be fair, I like the sound of a nicely tuned engine as much as the next person, but if I do exhaust mods to any car, I add an active exhaust controller to my car to stop it from being loud and obnoxious in residential areas. My current Commodore Ute for example has an Arduino-based exhaust controller that I designed, which has three modes, one for fully silent (Good Neighbour mode) , one for gesture control (Sport mode) and one for full open mode (Race mode) I'll be putting a similar system onto my Miata when I buy it next :D

loud cars are so annoying, "oh look guys i blew your eardrums out i'm so cool!!!"

@@Gobbler. I agree with you. Hence why I designed the valve system for my ute. Anyone with a non-variable loud exhaust is kidding themselves if they say "they can put up with it when driving" when the large bulk of exhaust note tuning is done to take the "Drone" out of the pipes.

Agreed. So weird that "driving manual transmission" is somehow romanticized in this video. I couldn't get rid of mine with an automatic.

It is kind of weird how this episode has a focus on the human interaction with cars. Of course it is fun to drive the first ten years after you get your license, but you are still not the worlds best driver, and don’t get me started on older drivers in cognitive decline. Manual transmission becomes muscle memory at some point, and you still don’t choose optimal gear all the time. I think focus are to much on car enthusiasts , most people just want something nice in front of their house that take them in comfort from a to b reliably and whenever they need it to. Should have focused more on reliability and cost/burden of ownership. I don’t believe everybody knew how to maintain their car in the old days. Hell, regular bikes can last a long time with basic maintenance and a few special tools for a few dollars and most find even those complicated.

Well today, it's even way worse. A rich lady drowned in her Tesla because she accidentally put it in reverse and drove into a lake. Doors stopped working after it fell in the water, and she didn't know about the emergency door hatch release.

@@americanfreedomandworldpea6912 Turned out that rich lady was drunk.

@@tonii5690 no she didn't understand how to operate her Tesla and I wouldn't blame her. The Tesla doors stop working if the power is cut or if it gets water damaged. The emergency door release is not very easy to find, especially if no one told you about it. That's the problem with having everything electronic and non mechanical. Drunk or sober, the Tesla has a dumb and dangerous design.

Even us gearheads want this. I hate having to commute in my car. I want to drive a car for fun, not to commute.

Not always, because some transportation companies are a monopoly... In the bay area, the train station company keep increasing the prices while the station still smells like pee.

​@@rtmpgtSame here

​@@rtmpgtWhat i usually do when I visit metro city is that I park my car in a safe place then use metro rail to navigate around.

the motor is the last thing you'd have to repair, its all the other parts that matter.

@@bensteele5801 Its an example of a worst case scenario, you dont have to take it literally.

A lot of EV motors don't use wire - they use copper bars put in by robots. The problem with EVs is that they don't really have much to break, but when they do, it's expensive.

@@sprockkets If a robot can get to it i can get to it even if weldet shut. only thing keeping me from doing that is software.

@@AntiFreak321 You can open any motor. Whether you can actually rewire the copper bars....probably not. I've seen how they are put in.

Same for Australia. We love 'em.

But they are going away here also.

Same for needing to "change my own oil". There's a lot of other things I can be doing on a Saturday

Aptera is doing a great job with this. I honestly would consider an Aptera if it came to Australia. It's only me and my partner getting around, i only need two seats and some cargo storage. It's also built around being an _electric car_ more than any other car out there. We're in the early "horseless carriage" days of Electric Vehicles. Back in the early days of cars a lot of them were just carriages with engines put into them, and they were horrible for day to day use.

if they ever manage to actually produce stuff

Oh, there is one? I just ranted about this. But sadly, it looks like they only plan to sell them in the US for now, right? Nevertheless, great to see the effort, I hope they'll be successful!