i have a 2003 auto and a 1987 truck. no problems like this individual is having;

We bought a new Subaru Outback last year. Nice car … but. If I get too close to the white line on the shoulder, it ‘nudges’ me back toward the center. The headlights dim automatically, even if I don’t want them to. The engine cuts itself off at traffic lights. If I turn my head a bit too much to the right or left a voice tells me to watch the road and if I yawn it tells me to pay attention. After two hours it tells me to stop for a break.

It has GPS, but it’s crappy compared to Google. Heated steering wheel, seat heater and cooler, backup camera and forward looking camera, I could go on, but one should ‘get the picture.’ My issue is that I don’t want most of that stuff, but I have to pay for it anyway as it comes with the car. Aside from the obvious direction we’re being pushed, that being driverless cars that will ultimately be ‘controlled’ by the ‘authorities,’ all those bells and whistles need to be maintained at a cost, and one would have to spend an inordinate amount of time studying the owners manual in order to use many of the features the car offers that I don’t really care to have to begin with and don’t use. So I’m paying for and paying to maintain ‘features’ that go to waste.

So what’s my point? There’s a black pill here, but one that perhaps we should embrace. I’ll let the folks at Imperium Press explain. They do a pretty awesome job............more.........