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I suppose that's a 'shot' at these people walking around staring at the phone? With these things called headphones, it allows you to walk around and look at stuff too! I am very into music, always have been. I NEED it.
You haven't been in all that many cars then. In the 2000's and the 2010's it was VERY common for car companies to put a digital compass in the rearview mirror. Like my wife's 2013 Volvo.
Same here. Currently spinning a 1978 pressing of Devo: Are we not men ?
There are times I don't need it though, such as walking the neighborhood, riding my pedal bike , or riding a snowmobile. I'd rather be more attentive then.
I have a 500+ CD collection I aint getting rid of. some of them are 'no longer issued' but with amazon having distro rights to every song in the US, you can request an album from them and they will burn one up from the MP3s they have and put in the basic cover art and charge ya $15. Plus, used to be when you went to an allmans concert you could 'buy the show' - of which I did many times. it was the new dead head taper ticket.
But dozens of manus are making cd players that even are CANBUSS aware and work with remote controls - just ask crutchfield. Since the manus want to standardize - they now put in XM-ish stuff and USB jacks (I got 4K+ mp3s - mostly cd rips - on 32GB sticks you get for like $9 from walmart near christmas) that I use.
beside me, as I type, is an old pioneer PDM410 that needs glasses someone wants me to fix...I sell every CD player I cross - so the market is there. But it cost us almost $1000 to spec our toyota with a single disc cd player buried in the already pricey entune - its a cash cow for them to sell $10 of wholesale product.
I have a 500+ CD collection I aint getting rid of. some of them are 'no longer issued' but with amazon having distro rights to every song in the US, you can request an album from them and they will burn one up from the MP3s they have and put in the basic cover art and charge ya $15. Plus, used to be when you went to an allmans concert you could 'buy the show' - of which I did many times. it was the new dead head taper ticket.
But dozens of manus are making cd players that even are CANBUSS aware and work with remote controls - just ask crutchfield. Since the manus want to standardize - they now put in XM-ish stuff and USB jacks (I got 4K+ mp3s - mostly cd rips - on 32GB sticks you get for like $9 from walmart near christmas) that I use.
beside me, as I type, is an old pioneer PDM410 that needs glasses someone wants me to fix...I sell every CD player I cross - so the market is there. But it cost us almost $1000 to spec our toyota with a single disc cd player buried in the already pricey entune - its a cash cow for them to sell $10 of wholesale product.
I added a Gentex mirror from a Nissan to a Foxbody Mustang. The mirror featured auto-dimming, homelink garage door openers, a compass, and an outside temp display.
Wiring was easy. It was 5 wires. Constant power, key on 12V and a ground and then 2 wires for the ambient temp sensor out to the grill. Very easy add on.
If you search around there are mirrors with all sorts of features that can be added with minimal wiring. Of course, if you don't have the skills to do this then this post is not helpful, but if you can manage simple wiring, this could be something of use to some folks who might want to add a few modern features to an older vehicle
I dont speak french but oddly, I can read it. I must have options installed...anyways
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I have a 500+ CD collection I aint getting rid of. some of them are 'no longer issued' but with amazon having distro rights to every song in the US, you can request an album from them and they will burn one up from the MP3s they have and put in the basic cover art and charge ya $15.
This means I have a lot of CDs and some are out of print, no longer available in any store, cept amazon can sometimes and make and sell you one made from lesser quality MP3s
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Plus, used to be when you went to an allmans concert you could 'buy the show' - of which I did many times. it was the new dead head taper ticket.
Allman brothers were a southern rock jam band with blues, soul and jazz overtures that produced the best live album ever (filmore east) and they had equipment there to let you buy the live performance as it was recorded and burned onto multiple cds in a truck trailer at the show - I have many of these 'never ever available in stores' recordings. The allmans had like what the grateful dead, phish, phil and friends, widespread panic etc, where you could buy a special ticket where you got to patch a portable recorder into the sound board to capture the show
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But dozens of manus are making cd players that even are CANBUSS aware and work with remote controls - just ask crutchfield. Since the manus want to standardize - they now put in XM-ish stuff and USB jacks (I got 4K+ mp3s - mostly cd rips - on 32GB sticks you get for like $9 from walmart near christmas) that I use.
companies like sony, pioneer, jvc, kenwood etc make aftermarket head units incl a cd player tha not only fit in a car, can speak on the electronics 'buss' (superhighway) linking all the computers in a car and therefore use the steering wheel mounted audio controls etc. It is financial sense for a car manu to offer LESS options in order to streamline manufacturing - why all cars have AC and PS/PB whether you want it or not. Everyone is using USB, the tooth or even XM radio so they offer far far less, for far far more and tell you it is modern. I have many many rips of CD music into MP3s that I can put on a memory stick costing little, and play into the USB port
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beside me, as I type, is an old pioneer PDM410 that needs glasses someone wants me to fix...I sell every CD player I cross - so the market is there. But it cost us almost $1000 to spec our toyota with a single disc cd player buried in the already pricey entune - its a cash cow for them to sell $10 of wholesale product.
On my bench, close by, where I restore electronics is a 1988ish pioneer multidisk cd player that is not focusing the laser and a customer wants it fixed. This is a large active market for CDs now. To get a CD player in our new toyota, it cost $1000 to step up to a 'better' entune (toyota speak for entertainment package) that included a CD player over the base. And why not, they sold me $10 in additional parts for $1000 - one heck of a markup
Even with headphones and their heads up, people aren't too aware these days. Just see how fast one reacts when you yell, "Hey! Look out for that truck!".
Meh. I hate generalizations like this. Some, sure. Most, no.
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