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Just noting I have only ever owned stick shift cars; the most complicated in car electronics was a CD autochanger. Cruise control on my last car just maintained constant speed (with a manual tranny). I've never driven a hybrid or electric vehicle.
And I learned to navigate using paper maps and a compass. No cellphones back then!
I'm 61. All this automation came along in the 21st century.
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@cstross I've not driven stick shift since I bought my current car which, being electric, has only a selector knob for Forward, Reverse, Neutral and Park. But before that I was driving up to 50k miles a year, and it wouldn't surprise me if I have covered half a million miles in a manual
@cstross I use a car sharing system with lots of different makes and it's like being dropped in front of a computer with a drastically different OS every time. Touch screen interfaces from hell, window wipers hidden in the third sub-menu, navigation systems tracking your every move and phoning home to whomever...
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