Retirees: 3G's and your car (move, relative, best, older)
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I put the key in the ignition of my 2008 Jeep, turn it on put the gear shift lever in D and go. As long as I can listen to my favorite AM radio station I'm good.
Astounding to read the Consumer Reports article and find out some manufacturers were still selling new cars with 3G technology as late as 2020 and 2021. What the heck!?
Yes, that was helpful. Now I know my car is REALLY old. (2010). I didn't even know there was such a thing as automatic crash notification, where your car notifies the authorities.
Then again, I have never in my life used cruise control, which my car does have. I don't even know HOW to use it or why I would ever need it.
I drove someone else's car the other day. First time I used a car with a back-up camera. It felt a little awkward. I can see where it would be useful in daytime, though. The home where I am currently staying has a driveway that crosses over a sidewalk on a street where there is an entrance to a park. Lots of people walk on this street with their dogs, and I've become afraid I am going to run some person or animal over. I'm not used to backing out over a sidewalk. I look behind me, of course, but the way it is set up, I can't see very far to the right or left as I am backing out and someone could just step behind me. The camera should prevent that from happening.
That reminds me of the time I started to back out of a parking space at the store and all of a sudden a man's deep voice told me to stop because there was a person behind me. I looked at the dash and saw the radio was lit up. I never use the radio so it seems the car used that to scare the bejeezes out of me. I had no idea my car could talk to me. Only happened that one time.
I did use satellite one time in my Buick Rainier. We used to travel the back roads from Oklahoma to Texas and hit a no cell service area. Had to make a call and it came in handy.
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My F150 uses my iPhone, so no problem. My wife's 2020 Outback is new enough to avoid the problem, and my 1974 Nova has no need to connect to any technology.
My cars have cassette players. No satellite radio in them. One of them still has a carburetor. I just found out that the newer car does have a computer, which malfunctioned when I tried to start the car. Who knew that a 26 year old car had a computer in it? I prefer simple machines with less things to break.
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