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U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars
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I'm literally worried about buying a new car. It was bad enough when I did in 2019 getting a car with actual buttons and still half the basic features I have to tap a screen for. It's never, never felt comfortable like my old Mazda3 2012 or Honda Civic 2003 did. I just want fucking buttons and knobs man. I also hate all of the "safety features". Which are just essentially "feel safer while using your phone and driving" features that all the idiots on the road use them as. Everyone can see your lane assist correcting you every 5 seconds Debra! You're gonna kill someone.
I got a second hand Toyota Corolla last year, '22 reg. Everything has a physical button. It's got a touchscreen but I rarely use it and doesn't connect to the internet.
I must have made it just under the wire
My 2018 Honda Civic doesn't have a touchscreen, all knobs and buttons, and the only safety features are things like airbags/traction control/ABS
Afaik Honda explicitly sided with the knobs crowd — though apparently after having flirted with the touchscreens, so presumably some of their cars do have them.
What does the backup camera use for a screen?
You can still have a screen without it being a touchscreen.
Obviously but I find it hard to believe a manufacturer would waste their time with that in 2018, but it does appear to be the case on LX and lower trims. They just get a 5" display.
It runs a tiny RTOS called eCos. Just does backup cam, AM/FM, Bluetooth, and USB sticks (as long as the media is WAV or MP3)
My only complaint is that it sorts media files on USB sticks by timestamp rather than alphabetically
My lexus uses a small screen built into the rearview mirror for the backup cam. Car was designed by people who can do math in their heads.
I also liked a friends Toyota that had screens on the pillar near the side mirrors, that showed that side when you click on your blinker
Right?! Yeah don't enforce safer driving practices or anything. Just make it easier to not pay attention.
I've always said phones should lock you out of almost every feature when motion/gps data shows movement. Then you have to put in a PIN to use your phone as a passenger. Like the Navi screen warnings of before "do not use while driving". This way people can be held accountable for the dangerous shit they do.