As the 18-year-old in question, this is what my car interior looks like (not exact, I have black interior):
I prefer older cars like this. No GPS tracking, no Apple CarPlay, no stupid touchscreen to control your wipers, real wood trim, a speedometer that isn’t also A FUCKING TOUCHSCREEN. I prefer my gear shifter and actual shifter, and tactile buttons to control the AC and radio. My navigation system isn’t reliant on plugging in a phone or being in range of a cell tower. I have a USB drive I have to download songs into in order to play on the car (yay no ads from Spotify!).
This car is one of many things I love about retro-tech I wasn’t around for. I like that my laptop has 10 ports, some of which I will never use. MP3 players were literally made so perfectly that we got rid of it (why?). My digital camera is used as a camera and not a Snapchat filter. My alarm clock isn’t my phone, it’s a real clock sitting beside my bed.
I’m starting to hate my doomscroll machine of a phone. Unfortunately, these aren’t going away soon, but it does not mean that myself and other people my age aren’t going to start using Gameboys and digicams soon.
Update: just talked to some other nerd friends of mine. Everyone seem to come to the same consensus, bring back old tech and rid the fat touchscreens. Also, new cars are overrated, we’re all going back to box trucks and modded Honda Civics.
As the 18-year-old in question, this is what my car interior looks like (not exact, I have black interior):
I prefer older cars like this. No GPS tracking, no Apple CarPlay, no stupid touchscreen to control your wipers, real wood trim, a speedometer that isn’t also A FUCKING TOUCHSCREEN. I prefer my gear shifter and actual shifter, and tactile buttons to control the AC and radio. My navigation system isn’t reliant on plugging in a phone or being in range of a cell tower. I have a USB drive I have to download songs into in order to play on the car (yay no ads from Spotify!).
This car is one of many things I love about retro-tech I wasn’t around for. I like that my laptop has 10 ports, some of which I will never use. MP3 players were literally made so perfectly that we got rid of it (why?). My digital camera is used as a camera and not a Snapchat filter. My alarm clock isn’t my phone, it’s a real clock sitting beside my bed.
I’m starting to hate my doomscroll machine of a phone. Unfortunately, these aren’t going away soon, but it does not mean that myself and other people my age aren’t going to start using Gameboys and digicams soon.
Update: just talked to some other nerd friends of mine. Everyone seem to come to the same consensus, bring back old tech and rid the fat touchscreens. Also, new cars are overrated, we’re all going back to box trucks and modded Honda Civics.