100%. Work in IT, but have worked on cars as a hobby most of my life too. I was messing around trying to figure out how to disable telemetry at a hardware level on mine, so I pulled the fuse for the telemetry module to see what would happen. It bricked the entire vehicle.
The 90s were peak. Reliability and low maintenance of electronic fuel injection, but would keep on running if any of the ancillary crap failed.
Agreed! I think cars peaked late 90s to early 2000s. And just in the last few years new cars are just safe lame design & tech that doesn’t really do anything to enjoy the experience of driving.
I’m not a car guy, but boy would I like me some low tech cars. Mainly due to ease of repairability. Fuck software. Fuck electronics.
100%. Work in IT, but have worked on cars as a hobby most of my life too. I was messing around trying to figure out how to disable telemetry at a hardware level on mine, so I pulled the fuse for the telemetry module to see what would happen. It bricked the entire vehicle.
The 90s were peak. Reliability and low maintenance of electronic fuel injection, but would keep on running if any of the ancillary crap failed.
You didn’t unbrick it?
It doesn’t perma brick the car. Just stick the fuse back in, drive it a bit so it realizes the telematics module is fine, and it’s back to normal.
Agreed! I think cars peaked late 90s to early 2000s. And just in the last few years new cars are just safe lame design & tech that doesn’t really do anything to enjoy the experience of driving.
Trucks peaked in the 90s, cars peaked in early 2000s
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You can make it easy to turn off all the extra bullshit. Maybe with a switch