Comment on Followup on the vehicle "kill switch" mandated by the Infrastructure Bill
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 months agoI wish it were as simple as calling things like your onstar microphone a deal-breaker when looking for a new car, but it seems like every single car out there has many deal-breakers, and you just need to choose which are worst.
BURN@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My solution is no new cars and nothing newer than 2005.
Cars are a series of compromises on every single metric nowadays, and they’re more expensive, making you pay for the convenience of having your data sold
skulblaka@startrek.website 5 months ago
That’s great until two years from now when all parts for that model year will stop being manufactured. If you’re lucky, newer models of the same car share a part number. If you’re not, the first time you need a new belt tensioner or torque strut you’re buying a new car. I drive an 05 Civic and I can usually still find parts for it only because it’s one of the most popular models to exist in America. My partner drives a similar year Suzuki and it’s now actually impossible to repair over half of that car because of parts unavailability. Old cars are great until they need to be fixed.
I’m not really arguing in favor of buying a “new” car especially because you wouldn’t catch me dead in anything more recent than a 2015. But there are some considerations to be taken into account when you’re buying a car old enough to have its own drivers license. More considerations, when it’s old enough to have its own license that would have already expired.