{"id":35105,"date":"2026-04-09T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35105"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:32:11","slug":"i-dont-miss-them-because-i-drive-old-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/i-dont-miss-them-because-i-drive-old-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Miss Them Because I Drive Old Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 auto features that we miss<\/a> (titled “The Good Old Ways: Many once-common features removed from today’s cars are now sorely missed in the AAA Explorer<\/em> magazine from which I tore the article one evening).<\/p>\n

They are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Uncovered engines<\/b>; after about 20 years, the list plastic pegs disappear, so they gradually become less covered over time.<\/li>\n
  2. Oil dipsticks<\/b>; the newest car amongst us still has one, as the oldest kept seeing a warning light and tried to use the dipstick but ended up overfilling his oil.<\/li>\n
  3. Analog instruments<\/b>; two of the three vehicles have spinning pointers, but they’re probably electronically determined.<\/li>\n
  4. Buttons, knobs, and levers<\/b>; two of our three still have buttons for heating and radio and whatnot. To be honest, I don’t know about the newest vehicle because I don’t drive it. One of our three even has no screen<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  5. Unconnected infotainment systems<\/b>; one of them has a screen, but it does not play videos–although it will play DVDs’ audio, as I have learned, so I can listen to DVD lectures.<\/li>\n
  6. Full-size spare tires<\/b>; one of the three does. Which means it has one more Tire Pressure Monitoring System sensors to report low pressure at odd moments.<\/li>\n
  7. Glorious color<\/b>; Well, one of the three is not black or white.<\/li>\n
  8. CD players<\/b>; at least two of the three do have it–and one has an audiocassette player. If we get a newer car, I will want a CD player installed as I have lots of audiocourses to get through yet.<\/li>\n
  9. Unpainted bumpers<\/b>; yeah, no, all plastic and will total the cars if bumped.<\/li>\n
  10. Printed owner\u2019s manual<\/b>; at least two of the tree have them, and I’ve looked in one of those two in the last week (story forthcoming, maybe).<\/li>\n
  11. Drivers<\/b>; we don’t have any of the new lane assist or blindspot warnings even. I work in tech. I’m not sure I’m going to ever have a self-driving car.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yeah, I am not looking forward to getting a vehicle which is later than 2010, ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    11 auto features that we miss (titled “The Good Old Ways: Many once-common features removed from today’s cars are now sorely missed in the AAA Explorer magazine from which I tore the article one evening). They are: Uncovered engines; after about 20 years, the list plastic pegs disappear, so they gradually become less covered over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35106,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions\/35106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}