Please for the love of god let me have a key that goes in an ignition, not a fob that makes me dependent on a watch battery
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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In an emergency you can hold the dead key fob up against the start button and it will detect it. This applies to most keyless ignition cars but not all of them so double check your make and model!
You've just removed a small but genuine worry from my life, thank you very much
This is also true for transmitter pockets on vehicles, which are usually found in either the cup holder or centre console of your vehicle.
I think Mercedes has weird IR keys that you shove into a hole like a normal car. They're not cheap cars though
As others said there should be place to hold it too, and hopefully will also show you where on the dashboard if battery too low.
Conversely, after a conversation with a coworker about his rental car some years ago, I think the lane-minders should be permanently on.
"The steering wheel vibrates and the car beeps at me every time I change lanes! It's pissing me off!"
Dude never used his turn signals except on that one trip after I told him it would stop it
As someone who frequently rents cars for work, the safety and assist features on newer cars are super clutch 99% of the time. The stuff like blind spot alerting, auto braking, backup cameras rule. It's really just all the "luxury" shit that sucks.
lane assist can be fucked up if you don't use your turn signals, i've seen it straight up jerk you back into your lane
That's the point!
yeah sorry i'm saying if a dumbass makes a move with lane assist and they're not aware of how it works and it jerks them back into their lane it can cause other issues like overcorrection
"Turn all of this shit off. All of it." button
fuck touchscreens for anything except interacting with a display for your mobile phone.
EDIT: I guess configuration and settings, fine. but nothing I will need to do while driving should require the touchscreen
Android auto updates keep making it harder and harder to only use my cars physical buttons.
Half the time I go into an app accidentally that forces full screen I get stuck there. At least before it would let me back with buttons
right? honestly i'm surprised the federation relies so heavily on them when they keep malfunctioning with the slightest power surge and suddenly worf can't fire torpedoes again. give him a big smashy button like in wrath of khan and he won't have that problem.
No I don't want you to beep at me when I go over the speed limit by 2 units.
No I don't want you to beep at me when I'm parking.
Imo speed chimes and/or governors (the video shows 120kph or ~75mph) are totally acceptable at that kinda speed.
Yeah, Japanese market cars in the 80s had a chime for the national speed limit at the time: 100km/h.
Laws in burgerland are so inconsistent that I don't know how they could implement something like it
Oregon speed limit is 55 mph, Texas it's 80 mph on some remote highways
Oregon speed limit is 55 mph
Oh my fucking god
wikipedia shows 70 as the maximum for Oregon. Apparently it varies by count in texas and gets up to 85 mph in some counties!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/US_Speed_Limits.svg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/US_Undivided_Speed_Limits.svg
It likely has to do with how the highways are built in each state. Texas is really flat, so its highways are straight and you can see really far ahead. Oregon has a bunch of mountains going through it. If you look at a map:
...you can see states in the Midwest have the highest speed limits. Places with more hills and uneven terrain have lower speed limits.
The reason the Autobahn in Germany has no speed limit is because it was engineered to be so straight you can see far enough ahead to stop for an accident if you're going 100 mph.
I wonder if this happens in counties in Texas with the 85 mph limit...
"Officer - what seems to be the problem?"
"You know how fast you were goin'?"
"Um... a couple miles over the limit?"
"90. That's way over. And we got the cartels pushing drugs through our county. How can you afford this nice car anyways? Pop the trunk, Speedy Gonzales."
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
parking sensors are OK, just remember to turn them off if you're driving near ice
dinging when you're speeding has been around since the 80s
Plus, under the guise of fighting drunk driving, Congress passed a law to require new automobiles to be capable of monitoring driver actions and BAC level to determine if a driver is unsafe/intoxicated and to trigger a kill switch to disable the vehicle. Surely these intrusive surveillance features won't be used for nefarious purposes and be unequally applied to certain politically unpopular groups
My (2008) car has manual transmission, locks and windows. I'm pretty sure it'll be the last conventional car I ever own. Hopefully it'll last until we get decent public rtransit here, or something like the wuling mini ev is available in the US. It's more likely I switch to bicycling in a few years, and then get hit by a car
distracted driving is bad, so lets put a giant touch screen in the middle console to control everything from useless features to climate control to navigation.
just give me a universal mount for my phone so i can charge it and use it for navigation. everything else should be physical/mechanical knobs, not magic delicate BS that breaks and requires proprietary service/replacement.
also, i don't need to ever pair the two worst devices for privacy ever constructed.
Auto high beams and lane changers it is!