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Both our cars are keyless entry with zero problems.
I hate our 2017 Civic. We bought new because we wanted the new technology but I'm sticking with my 2013 Acura. The Civic radio is all digital, no knobs, just press on the icons, again and then again and if it doesn't work, then again. And, yes, no CD player. The nav system is not as good as my waze app and the damn car yells at me in either robot voice or chimes If I'm too close to the car in front of me, if I take my seatbelt off before hitting my driveway, and numerous other offenses. It even vibrates if I go outside of my lane.
After driving it primarily for six months, I handed it over to my husband and I've found new love for my 2013 Acura. My next car will be a gently used luxury car. I feel like I'm in a plastic box of junk technology when I'm in our still new Civic.
I dislike digital interfaces with a passion. I made sure my last two cars for life had physical knobs for the radio and climate controls. I dislike nannies like Lane Keep Assist that are just intrusive when you just want to drive down the street or go for a nice peaceful ride.
Either detach your Ethernet chord or disable the wifi setting on your computer then create a folder on your hard drive. Copy the songs into the folder. Copy the folder onto the thumb drive. That should work.
Stop buying low end Fords and buy a Corolla.
I rented a BMW X3 SUV in Florida. The transmission was difficult to manage but perhaps that's part of the BMW mystique. The rental company took the manual explaining the transmission operation out of the car. The mystique is something that I could have lived without.
Gads! I don't consider a $25,000 vehicle as low end. And as for BMW, my friend has one and it is nothing but trouble and expense.
I'm very familiar with the Santa Fe and other Hyundai products. They have blind spot monitoring, but nothing to keep you in your own lane should you try and move over to a lane that is occupied by another vehicle. There is lane keep assist, which nudges you back toward the center of your own lane, should you try and cross lanes without signaling. But that system uses a camera to ensure you don't depart your own lane. My wife's Subaru has that and newer Hyundai products have that. And there is lane departure warning, which alerts you when you drift outside of your lane, but there is no active correction.
We rented a 2018 Murano in Chicago. It had that. A light came on on the A pillar to warn you a car was beside you. Either side. A beep sounded if it was farther back in the blind spot. Took some getting used to, but I liked it. Didn't stop me from looking, but it was a good reminder.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with my son a few months ago. He and my DIL both have their cars on 3-year leases, and my DIL's lease came up earlier this year. I forget which car she turned in and which she got, but one difference was that the previous one had the blind spot warning light and beep and the new one doesn't. I remember his comment verbatim:
"She almost crashed the car three times just in the first week because the new one doesn't have the warning system on the sides and she got so used to having that on the other car. She still hates that the new one doesn't have it."
My DIL is in her mid-thirties, btw. I assume that, since she hasn't had an accident with the car (that I know of, lol), she finally got back into the habit of actually LOOKING before changing lanes instead of depending on the automated warning so much.
It's funny but I have the opposite issue, in a way. My new 2017 has the right-side lane-change camera so whenever I put on that turn signal I get the live camera shot on one of the two display screens on the dash. It's a neat feature and I appreciate it BUT even after driving the car for eight months I still automatically turn my head to check, as my first line of defense. Fifty-plus years of driving habit is probably not going away anytime soon. :-)
I'm very familiar with the Santa Fe and other Hyundai products. They have blind spot monitoring, but nothing to keep you in your own lane should you try and move over to a lane that is occupied by another vehicle. There is lane keep assist, which nudges you back toward the center of your own lane, should you try and cross lanes without signaling. But that system uses a camera to ensure you don't depart your own lane. My wife's Subaru has that and newer Hyundai products have that. And there is lane departure warning, which alerts you when you drift outside of your lane, but there is no active correction.
Gotcha, so that means the newer Genesis have what you are referring to. That is helpful for me. I just want what we get to have maximum safety.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with my son a few months ago. He and my DIL both have their cars on 3-year leases, and my DIL's lease came up earlier this year. I forget which car she turned in and which she got, but one difference was that the previous one had the blind spot warning light and beep and the new one doesn't. I remember his comment verbatim:
"She almost crashed the car three times just in the first week because the new one doesn't have the warning system on the sides and she got so used to having that on the other car. She still hates that the new one doesn't have it."
My DIL is in her mid-thirties, btw. I assume that, since she hasn't had an accident with the car (that I know of, lol), she finally got back into the habit of actually LOOKING before changing lanes instead of depending on the automated warning so much.
It's funny but I have the opposite issue, in a way. My new 2017 has the right-side lane-change camera so whenever I put on that turn signal I get the live camera shot on one of the two display screens on the dash. It's a neat feature and I appreciate it BUT even after driving the car for eight months I still automatically turn my head to check, as my first line of defense. Fifty-plus years of driving habit is probably not going away anytime soon. :-)
This is cause for concern, when people are so used to electronic nannies and drive another car and forget different cars may have different nannies. Someone used to adaptive cruise control might set the cruise control on another car that doesn't have ACC and be surprised when they run into the car ahead, or be reliant on autonomous braking and drive another car that doesn't have it, and run into the car ahead because they assume the car will brake for them.
Someone should start a new vehicle company called Dinosaur.
Better than the Jitterbug phone.
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