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Old 04-27-2017, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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  • Push button start
  • Navigation
  • Backup camera
  • Proximity sensor

There has to be a bunch more.
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Old 04-27-2017, 07:44 AM
 
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GM had the driver airbag in 1968.
Could have had it all of these years.

There was an article in newspaper and TV.
Lady purchased a used 1968 (or 1969)Oldsmobile Toronado.
Got into an accident. Airbag saved her life.

Come to find out GM made a bunch of these as test vehicles. Usually test vehicles never make it to the general public.
This one did. And decades later - this lady got it at a used car lot.
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Old 04-27-2017, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Pikesville, MD
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The BMW E25 turbo had a radar based braking distance monitor in it in 1972.


https://www.classicdriver.com/en/art...1972-bmw-turbo


As for nav, the BMW 750iL had it 20+ years ago already.
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Old 04-27-2017, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Podunk, IA
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Our 1996 STS had rain sensing wipers.
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Old 04-27-2017, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Vallejo
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  • Push button start
  • Navigation
  • Backup camera
  • Proximity sensor

There has to be a bunch more.
I'm not really sure what you mean. Most of those aren't new technologies.Push button start goes back a hundred years or so, navigation to the mid '90s, backup camera to the '50s. So yeah, they're not new and technologies we had in production cars much, much longer than ten years ago because they're not new.
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Old 04-27-2017, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Fuquay Varina
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Our old tractor in the early 70's had a push button start lol
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Old 04-27-2017, 09:06 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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Our old tractor in the early 70's had a push button start lol
Most people aren't 90 years old. Push button start is definitely new to them. That's why they pay extra for it.
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Old 04-27-2017, 09:07 AM
 
Location: NH
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I like the cars of 20 years ago because they didn't have the technologies of today...
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Old 04-27-2017, 10:48 AM
 
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Our 1996 STS had rain sensing wipers.
Ha ha ha. Buick had them on 1954 models. Along with rain sensing folding roof that will come up when it rains.

GM had full electric car that they killed and now returned back to it.
Olden cars had TVs, even one with nuclear reactor as power source.
First electric hybrid was made in 1897. Lohner Porsche.
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Old 04-27-2017, 10:51 AM
 
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Here's my opinion.
They - or, the infamous nameless they - have tons of designs and ideas and developments. That they simply put on ice and sit on it. While they are bleeding minor changes as "complete redesign" to the public. Slowly thawing iced ideas.
Look at the last few years. Headlights. Headlights. headlights. LEDs. LEDs. LEDs. Complete redesign my ars.
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