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Time keeps marching forward (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 39 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I still consider electric windows to be futuristic show-off fluffery, despite not having actually seen manual winders in a few years.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We have manual winders. (We down graded our car on purpose for cheaper repairs)

    I prefer winders for the front. No need for key in accessory position, and fine control.

    Back is tricky

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Electric windows go really poorly with that other pair of modern features, turney-offey-when-you-stoppey-engine (that's the technical name) and button-make-engine-go-not-turney-key.

    I was in a car recently where I forgot to close the sunroof, and there didn't seem to be a way to close the sunroof without re-starting the engine.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It's hilarious to me how many people are shitting their beds over the Slate pickup coming with crank windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    All my homies hate repairing window regulators

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I've never once had to repair power windows in the 20 some years I've owned cars.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    lucky so and so. every fuckin car, from fuckers bouncing off the car while it's parked.

    i'm a car wreck magnet. of the 20ish car "accidents" i've been in, i was in the passenger seat eating lunch for like 15 of them (you lose track after like number seven) i'm not the best data point

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It would be interesting to see a timeline of when certain features became standard. For example, pushing a button to start a car instead of turning a key. That still seems new to me, even though I've driven some cars with that feature that were old enough to be falling apart.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (1 child)

    My car is a 2023 and has a turn-key ignition, so pushbutton ignition wasn't completely standard yet at that point.

    Edit: Clarity

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, it's a gradual process. I'm a bit surprised that in 2023 it wasn't yet universal. I'm just saying that that feature probably first appeared between 2000 and 2010, so maybe even a quarter century ago, but it still seems new.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    my daily driver is a 2015 wrangler with crank windows. 158k. automatic transmission. only “big” fixes were oil cleaned housing and the latest was last month, radiator broke its seal on bottom. simple swap.

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