Please make a dumb car
I went car shopping this year in the new market and found that that if you want more a &quot;dumb&quot; car (UX occurs primarily outside of a touchscreen, no internet, no geolocation) you lose all potential for any nice non-smart features. So no heated&#x2F;powered seats, no power windows, the material of the interior is refurbished from a spirit airlines airplane, etc.<p>I think manufacturers are hoping that certain aspects of the modern auto become &quot;can&#x27;t live withouts&quot;, e.g. bluetooth, which helps them smuggle all the other more marginally useful, security and ux intrusive features into your model. Now as others have mentioned, these unwanted smart features might actually be required by law&#x2F;regulation&#x2F;tax-credit&#x2F;legal-dept, so it&#x27;s not bad programming&#x2F;design but &quot;design by committee&quot; that&#x27;s dooming our chances of a good dumb car.<p>I wonder how well my car will age when miscellaneous sensor all over the car start failing. It used to just show a light on your dashboard, now I wonder if I&#x27;ll be grounded - stuck in park - or hounded by incessant bells repeating the same spurious warning over and over again.