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New Car Question (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 day ago by SUDO@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My current car is old. I had a lot of repairs done on it recently. If I get a new car, I don't want features. Lane assist, backup camera, DUI Camera, telemetry, auto breaking or other frankly silly features. Call me grumpy, but I find modern cars very distracting.

Can I ask a dealership to disable these at purchase? Is there a car that works best for being private besides just older cars?

I drive very little in a year. No, I can't ride a bike.

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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-announces-final-rule-requiring-rear-visibility-technology

That's because backup camera law just passed in 2014, effective 2018. Which means that screens of some kind became mandatory in all cars.

Once you have to have a screen, might as well throw a few features in to make use of that expensive screen since it's just a couple bucks here or there to add things like an infotainment.

Now that people need the touchscreen anyway for the infotainment, might as well get rid of those expensive buttons and just do everything with a touchscreen menu.

As long as we have all that other stuff, might as well throw in a cell modem and get some $$$ from the insurance companies and data brokers to get some ongoing revenue from these cars we sold.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And as much as I don't like having to look at the camera to back up, it does seem to have a wider FOV and the backup sensors see things even further out, and the rear end of cars are just so high and back windows are so small (I think these are now all this way for rear end crash and rollover reasons) that you just can't see out the back like you could out of an older car. It's pretty much just how it has to be with the safety requirements these days.