I would like to be able to buy major appliances-- like washer, dryer, refrigerator, stove-- with no added electronics. Just heavy duty hardware that you plug in, with analog mechanical knobs. Wouldn't they be cheaper to make? Wouldn't there be a market?
In 1999 I bought my only brand new car, a little Hyundai with 5 speed and rolldown windows. Computerization must have been minimal. I could swap out the battery without making the radio go bonkers. I only let it go many years later due to a wornout clutch and a wife who never mastered a stickshift.
No such vehicle is offerred now.
Are these scarcities of options due to free market forces?
Or are these scarcities due to the intervention of state "green" regulations?
Today's vehicles are surveillance and tracking AND extreme EMR exposure. From the batteries in a Prius cooking their owners with EMR to the windshield mounted "radar lane separator" camera that operates the side airbags in a Toyota Tacoma - while bouncing EMR all over the interior and causing DNA damage to the driver and passengers. So, FUCK today's vehicles. I know of two people who have had to return their new vehicles because they got so sick driving them.
AAA Buying Club lists used trucks and cars. The listed price is the final price. It can be lowered but not raised. AAA members can apply for auto loans at sometimes less than half of the going APR rate - depending on credit rating. I checked and their CSR said that 48 hours after joining (lowest annual rate is now $62) was fine for applying for an auto loan. The autoloan I got was handled by a Credit Union, that I was then able to join, and have been with for 15 years. An added plus.
My plan, should I ever need to get another truck. Go to AAA Buying club. Get an OLDER model Toyota Tacoma (pre-2018 when they fucked it up). Check the website that shows which model years had the most repairs. Find the best deal I can, and then take it to a reasonably honest garage and put $5,000 into replacing anything that is "about to go."
"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy." — World Economic Forum
I would like to be able to buy major appliances-- like washer, dryer, refrigerator, stove-- with no added electronics. Just heavy duty hardware that you plug in, with analog mechanical knobs. Wouldn't they be cheaper to make? Wouldn't there be a market?
In 1999 I bought my only brand new car, a little Hyundai with 5 speed and rolldown windows. Computerization must have been minimal. I could swap out the battery without making the radio go bonkers. I only let it go many years later due to a wornout clutch and a wife who never mastered a stickshift.
No such vehicle is offerred now.
Are these scarcities of options due to free market forces?
Or are these scarcities due to the intervention of state "green" regulations?
Today's vehicles are surveillance and tracking AND extreme EMR exposure. From the batteries in a Prius cooking their owners with EMR to the windshield mounted "radar lane separator" camera that operates the side airbags in a Toyota Tacoma - while bouncing EMR all over the interior and causing DNA damage to the driver and passengers. So, FUCK today's vehicles. I know of two people who have had to return their new vehicles because they got so sick driving them.
AAA Buying Club lists used trucks and cars. The listed price is the final price. It can be lowered but not raised. AAA members can apply for auto loans at sometimes less than half of the going APR rate - depending on credit rating. I checked and their CSR said that 48 hours after joining (lowest annual rate is now $62) was fine for applying for an auto loan. The autoloan I got was handled by a Credit Union, that I was then able to join, and have been with for 15 years. An added plus.
My plan, should I ever need to get another truck. Go to AAA Buying club. Get an OLDER model Toyota Tacoma (pre-2018 when they fucked it up). Check the website that shows which model years had the most repairs. Find the best deal I can, and then take it to a reasonably honest garage and put $5,000 into replacing anything that is "about to go."
I am 100% done with the new car/truck industry.