I never really appreciated the older cars I had and it was always an exciting thing to “upgrade” to something a bit newer. I’ve done it a few times over the years and today, as I write this, I sincerely wish I still had my old mid 90’s Toyota.
Modern cars suck.
My current vehicle, a 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe, is probably not what most would consider a modern car these days. It is, after all, 14 years old at the time of writing this. Yet, to my mind it is modern, in that all it’s electrics are all controlled by a central computer system in the vehicle.
I mean, everything runs through that. So when it dies, as it just has, the entire thing is useless. It’s not just that the radio won’t work or the windows won’t go up and down or anything like that. The “security” is run by this thing to, so it doesn’t recognise the keys for the car. So the car won’t start. We’re talking one of these stupid “smart” keys that stay in your pocket and you just push the button to start, or in this case, not start.
An older actually mechanical car, before the days where immobilisers and so called “smart” keys were common-place you would turn a physical key and so long as there was power in the battery (and it was mechanically okay) the car would start. Not so anymore.
Every switch in the car connects to a digital system and when you press a switch to put a window up (for example), it sends a digital signal to the computer, which then sends another signal to the window motor and it does it’s thing.
