"New Technology Rage/Hate/Praise Thread"

[roving1]

Lol. Yeah I can't stand the beeping either.

Fords alert chime they put on every vehicle is so cloying, chipper and annoying I literally cringe every time I drive one and honestly I hate it so much it is an impediment to me ever owning a Ford. Well, above the fact they make nothing I want to buy anyways that is lol.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Lol. Yeah I can't stand the beeping either.

Fords alert chime they put on every vehicle is so cloying, chipper and annoying I literally cringe every time I drive one and honestly I hate it so much it is an impediment to me ever owning a Ford. Well, above the fact they make nothing I want to buy anyways that is lol.

The clacking wood turn signal noise is annoying too.

Makes me appreciate the old fashioned clicker mine have lol.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

I hate electronic parking brakes.

Right off the bat you lose a host of advanced/fun driving techniques that are just lost forever.

Another expensive electronic thing to diagnose and to replace when it fails.

Uhhh... Two servos, a relay or two, and switch. I'll take that any day over a cable that rust and stretches...lol.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

Lol. Yeah I can't stand the beeping either.

Fords alert chime they put on every vehicle is so cloying, chipper and annoying I literally cringe every time I drive one and honestly I hate it so much it is an impediment to me ever owning a Ford. Well, above the fact they make nothing I want to buy anyways that is lol.

You do know that you can easily turn them off?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Uhhh... Two servos, a relay or two, and switch. I'll take that any day over a cable that rust and stretches...lol.

After my 5 speed swap I am finally getting around to hooking up my parking brakes on my swapped rear axle. I ordered both new rear cables for $13 a side (Bendix brand) Original 1985 forward cable is perfect.

$26 isn't fixing a thing on an electric parking brake system.

Before I swapped the rear axle in 2011 all three factory 1985 cables worked perfectly but the rears were incompatible with the disk brake setup.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

After my 5 speed swap I am finally getting around to hooking up my parking brakes on my swapped rear axle. I ordered both new rear cables for $13 a side (Bendix brand) Original 1985 forward cable is perfect.

$26 isn't fixing a thing on an electric parking brake system.

Before I swapped the rear axle in 2011 all three factory 1985 cables worked perfectly but the rears were incompatible with the disk brake setup.

Well, the actuators are roughly 120.00 per side...buuut they go for hundreds of thousands of miles with zero maintaince or adjustments.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well, the actuators are roughly 120.00 per side...buuut they go for hundreds of thousands of miles with zero maintaince or adjustments.

Honestly I am good with replacing cables every 30 years/150k miles on a rust belt truck and not paying for the electronic system in the first place.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

Honestly I am good with replacing cables every 30 years/150k miles on a rust belt truck and not paying for the electronic system in the first place.

Nice thing about them... No cable to snagg whilest playing n the mud ;-)

 

[roving1]

You do know that you can easily turn them off?

Chiming when the door is open and key is on and if the seat belt is unbuckled and the car is in drive is federally mandated so...

 

[roving1]

Well, the actuators are roughly 120.00 per side...buuut they go for hundreds of thousands of miles with zero maintaince or adjustments.

Unless the vehicle software decides not to turn them off. I think my objection is 50% they are tied into a million logic trees nowadays, any one of which can convince the vehicle that it should not release the brake. The actual mechanisms are not too awful. But the stupid intelligence controlling them can be.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

Chiming when the door is open and key is on and if the seat belt is unbuckled and the car is in drive is federally mandated so...

... Sooooo you can still turn them off.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

Unless the vehicle software decides not to turn them off. I think my objection is 50% they are tied into a million logic trees nowadays, any one of which can convince the vehicle that it should not release the brake. The actual mechanisms are not too awful. But the stupid intelligence controlling them can be.

Yet millions of vehicles have them....and they work flawlessly...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Nice thing about them... No cable to snagg whilest playing n the mud ;-)

VS no electronic motors/harnesses to submerge in water...

 

[Deleted member 9101]

VS no electronic motors/harnesses to submerge in water...

Well, we have them on a few of our trucks were I work. They spend all day in a phosphate mine (ie. a giant mud pit)... Zero problems year after year.

Look, I get it, you don't like technology... But that will not change the fact that vehicles are becoming more and more advanced every single year and there is absolutely nothing what so ever that you can do about it. It leaves you with two choices: learn somwthing new, or be religated to old vehicles. Either is a good choice.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well, we have them on a few of our trucks were I work. They spend all day in a phosphate mine (ie. a giant mud pit)... Zero problems year after year.

Look, I get it, you don't like technology... But that will not change the fact that vehicles are becoming more and more advanced every single year and there is absolutely nothing what so ever that you can do about it. It leaves you with two choices: learn somwthing new, or be religated to old vehicles. Either is a good choice.

Not really.

For $60 I can put all three new cables on a 2019 F-150. I consider that to be fairly new. Rock auto doesn’t show a 2020 so I don’t know if that changed or not (tune in next week when 2020 gets here?!)

I don’t mind some tech really. Stuff like this is the answer to the question nobody asked though.