>unibody
>crumple zones
>aluminum block
>undersized turbocharged engine
>stop/start
>transverse engine
>sensors/cameras everywhere
>front wheel drive
>lane assist
>plastic covers on everything
>pushbutton start
>pushbutton E-brake
>touchscreens
>automatic transmission
>bubble shaped body (for pedestrian safety)
Which do you choose and why?
push start/brake and sensors
Pushbutton ebrakes are cancer, they're not even fucking emergency brakes, they're just "hold the car still" parking brakes, doubt any of them engage when the car is moving anyway.
That's about all I would remove from that list, bubble shaped cars are bot due to pedestrian safety or any of that shit, it's because eggshit sells.
Now if that would include retard designers making fuck ugly eggshit and jellybean cars then yeah that needs to go too.
Why would you need to engage ebrake while you're moving? And if you say drifting you are 100% a troon.
Hektik skids in my 68hp FWD shitbox when first snow hits the ground.
Also helps locking up the diff in my trugg when I'm getting it stuck in a swamp again
>why would you need to engage the emergency brake while moving
Think about that again some more, retard-kun.
>sensors/cameras everywhere
>automatic transmission
>front wheel drive
dumbest post i've ever seen on this website and i've been here since the reagan administration.
>doubt any of them engage when the car is moving anyway
Actually, when you hold up the button, they do. And they have an antilock function as well so you don't start spinning.
>sensors/cameras everywhere
without them, there would also be no
>lane assist
so I'll take that for free thank you. Other two would be
>pushbutton start
and
>touchscreens
Push button ebrake is gay also but I rarely use handbrake even in my manual cars
>plastic covers on everything
>touchscreens
>bubble shaped body
Fixed.
Pushbutton e-brake, camera/sensor overload and everything that follows from it (which automatically eliminates lane assist too), and then it's a difficult call between plastic covers on everything and stop/start bullshit.
All the other things either have their place or can be implemented inoffensively.
>undersized turbocharged engine
>touchscreens
I only choose those two, because they are roughly a trillion times worse than the worst of the remainder of the list.
All of them
lane assist, pushbutton e brake and touch screens. cant see much wrong with the rest some are even big plus
Pushbutton ebrake
Fwd
Bubble body
Everything else has a purpose
I hope a touch screen attacks you in the night
fully integrated waze is too convenient to kill off before FWD, shitty ebrakes, and crumple bloat forcing all cars to look closer and closer to identical blobs
>transverse engine
>front wheel drive
This not the same problem?
Killing transverse engines would also kill a few lotus models
Longitudinal engine FWD cars do exist. Some mid-engined cars use transverse engine setups, usually to save money by reusing an existing FWD drivetrain.
Barely anything MR that uses an existing transverse FWD setup exists anymore though anon. Only one I can think of in the modern age is Lotus and maybe the like 3 British companies that shove eco box engines into super light open wheel track cars.
And we’re worse off as a society for it.
I want a modern MR2.
its never been a problem but its kinda the same thing. longditudinal engine and fwd is, transverse and rwd i hope no one ever tried.
>its never been a problem
Not true in the slightest. Transverse engines cause torque steering due drivetrain asymmetry.
The engine being wider leaves less room for the wheel wells, limiting wheel traverse and turning radius.
They make the engine compartment more cramped to work in vs something spacious like a panther platform.
>torque steer is a problem
since when?
Longitudinal fwd setups are the worst thing ever
>transverse and rwd i hope no one ever tried.
Most mid-engine 4 cylinders
>high beltlines
>small windows
>low profile tires
undersized turbo engine
bubble body
lane assist
>automatic transmission
>pushbutton start
>pushbutton E-brake
simple as
Unibody auto is fine the only issue i had with one was a commodore with bent chassis and a xj Cherokee wagon
Stop start
Push button e brake
Sensors / cameras everywhere (FUCK BMW Headlight systems)
>undersized turbocharged engine
>stop/start
>touchscreens
I don't want to completely eliminate touchscreens, but for fucks sake the HVAC and volume controls need to be physical buttons/knobs
>Automatic
>FWD
>Transverse engines
Stop/Staert
electric e-brake
Crumple Zones
>but not for me....
>Touchscreens.
Fuck I hate touchscreens. All that shit about distracted driving and laws against cell phones and manufacturers put a device you have to take your eyes off the road and look at to interact with. Then they just put in time consuming "We're not liable for you doing this" shit that you have to continue not looking at the road to get around to get what you want. Fuck them.
>Bubble shaped body
As cars get more and more homogeneous I feel like we hit a wall here. They all look the same and they're all fucking hideous. Just look at the Ford Escape, which went from being a soft-around-the-edges baby Bronco in gens 1 and 2 into something that makes even the blandest Honda look flamboyant.
>bubble shaped body (for pedestrian safety)
This is my top pick because its destroying automotive styling.
>undersized turbocharged engine
These engines have their place in things like Miatas and little hot hatchbacks; but seeing them replace V6s and V8s in full size sports cars, muscle cars and sedans fills me with rage.
>touchscreens
Its fine for your radio but buttons should control everything else. These things are gonna really suck in a few years when they start breaking.
replace crumple zones with rubber bumpers reminiscent of the volvo 240 series. I should not get my "bumper" cracked from bumping into stuff and inb4 "le shitty driveur" id rather not get my car totalled cause some other retard hits by bumper at speed or does a hit and run in the parking lot.
remove unibody and go with body on frame for easier servicing and dissasembly/assembly.
remove touchscreens as they are anal cancer aids and do not contribute to any driving experience and cause accidents. Id rather have physical buttons so I DO not need to fiddle for 5 seconds while going 50mph (which means I travel 111.76 ft while looking away for that short time)
>sensors/cameras everywhere
in general not just on cars
>touchscreens
the issue i have is screens replacing the gauge cluster, and hvac/radio moving to touchscreens, a small unobtrusive LCD is fine. i like how mazda does it
>crossovers
i don't understand why they're so popular. bring back station wagons
I would eliminate the following:
>undersized turbocharged engine
>sensors/cameras everywhere
>lane assist
>pushbutton E-brake
>touchscreens
>automatic transmission
>bubble shaped body
stopstart
electronic ebrake
bubble bodies
Three? You're being generous.
>Touchscreens
>Front wheel drive
>Undersized turbo engines
>stop/start
Doesn't work with the vehicle in park, which is the only time I'd actually want the motor to shut off
>pushbutton parking brake
Straight up don't trust these, I'd much rather have a traditional ratcheting hand/foot parking brake. The next logical step after non-mechanical parking brakes is non-mechanical steering.
The rest I can kinda take or leave. I suppose if I had to pick one more I'd choose:
>touchscreens
Because car interiors that are built around having a giant iPad on the dash look retarded
>lane assist
I had to drive past about 10 miles of bicyclers during an event that I was unaware of about 1-2 weeks after I got my car.
That's when I learned Subarus are designed to take out bikers that think they own the road.
Also learned it causes me to aim for pot holes and roadkill.
So 50/50.
>pushbutton e-brake
That's the only one I'm okay with eradication. It's just a parking brake function a good automatic transmission already does anyways. It loses its emergency braking function too.
>lane assist
I'd say attention-assist technologies are actually a massive mistake to introduce into cars in general.
>touchscreen
Don't find issue with it, I find issue with it used in interfaces that require tactile feedback. It's bad design that indicates they're not willing to do the job right.
The biggest UI/UX flaw I find is unilluminated interfaces. This is a glaring oversight that makes car interfaces unusable at night.
stop/start cause it's useless and wears out the engine and pushbuttons e-brakes are cancer, the rest are fine
>undersized turbocharged engine
Nuke
>sensors/cameras everywhere
Nuke
>lane assist
Nuke
>touchscreens
Nuke
You forgot to mention SUVs/crossovers and the piggification of cars. That would be my first choice. Second would be electric parking brakes. Should be illegal.
>stop/start
>touchscreens
>bubble shaped body (for pedestrian safety)
Fortunately, one car already doesn't have this annoyances.
Forgot:
CVT
Hybrid car that has expensive and complex to replace alternator
i pick "undersized turbocharged engine" 3 times
ICE toys.
wheel drive
transmission
>>push-button e brake
There