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I would drive the shit out of that car

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The good news is: It’s free

The bad news is: You have to compile it yourself

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25 points

Some assembly required

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7 points

Those fights with the better half over building an IKEA bookshelf will seem like child play after that.

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3 points

Fortunately there’s the GNU assembler.

man as

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3 points

Welding is the new old programming.

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16 points

Those headlights look so easy to replace.

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58 points

I just want a simple car. One without extraneous functions.

My old boss bought a brand new car that was in the shop for two of it’s first four weeks. The issue? The capacitive touch sensor that operated the motorised glove box door was activating automatically because it was being confused by dust.

My shitty 15 year old VW’s plastic glove box door has a metal latch and had never experienced this bug.

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There certainly are places where technology and electronics can improve a car, but replacing one of the most basic, reliable mechanical functions such as a latch is arguably stupid. It’s just adding numerous more failure points. It’s form over function.

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14 points

Radio/media and climate controls should not be on a f*ing touch screen either.

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How tf are you meant to change the climate settings on a touch screen when not looking at it? Is this where the “touch” in “touch screen” comes in?

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8 points

Yep, there are many legitimate use-cases for electronics in cars, but THIS is definitely not one of them!

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7 points

Yeah I got my car 2012 right before you started to see everything in cars become computerized. It’s a civic and still going strong.

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4 points

Just sold my car to buy one with digital AC 🥲

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1 point

F my brother

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My shitty 15 year old VW’s plastic glove box door has a metal latch and had never experienced this bug.

Heh, my 40 year old Deutz tractor has a metal latch on the glove box, and it will randomly flip open and hit me in the head while working in the field.

I would still prefer it over the motorized system you describe

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52 points

“i upgraded the engine and one of the wheels stopped working”

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23 points

Why are you using wheels anyway? Caterpillar tracks are a more modern solution and superior in every way.

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I wonder what’s the fastest you could go on tracks? Apparently a record was set in 1979 (121.9 km/h, 75 mph) and never broken since as far as i can tell, or at least Guiness doesn’t seem to know anything about it.

Fellas, we need a tank, a couple V8 engines, and a case of beer

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10 points

Your cardan.shaft is out of date, the interface for the wheels changed.

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For those who, like me, wanted to know more about the real photo from which this was shopped: it’s a 19-year-old Chinese student called Zhu Zhenlin driving his homemade solar car in 2012.

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7 points

Sweet!

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41 points

I don’t know man. Looks like something I’d buy.

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5 points

happily buy it before I gave elon musk’s stupid ass a dollar.

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1 point

Hell yeah!

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