On Thursday 03 April 2025 09:40:58 am acnestis via groups.io wrote:
Who knew that a fault in the radio would stop the passenger-side window from working?? The amount of digital electronics in modern cars is astounding (bordering on criminal.)
Yes!
I am not looking forward to ending up with something newer, though it's only a matter of time with one of our vehicles heading for 200K miles and showing some rust. The other one is approaching 150K. On one forum I participate in, there's a thread entitled "De-Crapifying cars", where the poster details a bunch of nonsense that he had to deal with in his Subaru, which basically took them off my list of brands to consider.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
