I don't buy cars very often.?ÿ The newest ride in the stable has my wife's 2011 Wrangler for the last ten years.?ÿ My old C1500 work truck is also a 2011, but it has the scars of a warrior earned in survey battle.?ÿ A few months ago I purchased a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with lots of bells and whistles.?ÿ It took me two weeks to get used to not having a place to stick an ignition key.?ÿ The last vehicle I had with a starter button was a '51 Chevy.
I do love the navigation screen even though it took a good long time to figure out how to use it.?ÿ I'm still finding things I know absolutely nothing about.?ÿ I also found out I can't sync the Cherokee's blue tooth with a 17 year old flip-phone.?ÿ I guess a new phone is in my not-to-distant future.
And it even has "transporter" capability.?ÿ I was heading up to the dentist in OKC (about 25 miles) and I attempted to give the nav system a verbal command.?ÿ The nice lady in the box told me she didn't understand me...and then I was suddenly transported on my screen to Harry Hines Blvd., some 300 miles south.
This is going to take some getting use to for sure.?ÿ 😉
I also found out I can't sync the Cherokee's blue tooth with a 17 year old flip-phone.?ÿ
got a $14 flip phone that BT connects to the home computer, and downloads. you can do it
2 years ago we bought a 2019 Acura RDX.?ÿ We still don't know how to work the nav system reliably.?ÿ Other than a really poor electronics interface -- and a disconnected fuel pump that caused problems for the first month or so -- it's been a great car.?ÿ But long gone are the days when I had the desire (and time!) to pore over owners manuals and figure out every bell and whistle in new equipment.?ÿ I'm now content to cover the basics and then get on with life.
All these bells and whistles is a bunch of foolishness to begin with.?ÿ We all need a vehicle that starts when it's supposed to and gets us safely to where we know we are going in a halfway comfortable fashion.?ÿ We are perfectly capable of rolling down windows and mechanically adjusting our seat position and adjusting our mirrors by hand to the correct orientation.?ÿ We don't need eleventy seven additional little electric motors stuck all over the place.?ÿ Because one or more will fail at the most inconvenient moment and there is no quick and easy fix.
I can't hear women's voices anymore so having some female voice attempting to tell me where to go will not work.?ÿ Period.
Same with phones.
Bought my wife a 2020 Honda Pilot. Drove it to Florida this spring with the the whole tribe all aboard. It drives itself on the highway. Crazy. It does so much I have a hard time figuring it all out. I do like the fact that while all the little ones have their bluetooth headphones on watching 4K movies while cruising down the highway at 80 mph I can speak to them through their headphones like a pilot of an airplane. Even better when one drifts off and I can scare the crap out of them!
We all need a vehicle that starts when it's supposed to and gets us safely to where we know we are going in a halfway comfortable fashion
That's exactly why I'm buying a Tesla Model X with Autopilot Self-Driving Capability as soon as I can steal enough money. You could drink both ways to the liquor store while watching Beavis N Butthead reruns on the screen. ?????ÿ
Phffft! You want total insanity? Try an Apple Watch. ?????ÿ
My wife??s car (and mine too) has all kinds of electronic goodies and is connected to Vodaphone. It??s ?ÿ18 months old and I still can??t figure some stuff out. I have to connect the car to a battery saver while fooling around with it. Frustrating fun.
Congrats on the Cherokee, I??m not a Chrysler fan but these things are winning tons of awards and are supposed to depreciate less than their cousins in that SUV group. Hope you like it and if the electronics are leading to insanity, ask any juvenile delinquent to assist in programming the thing. (give him a couple old Xanax or something ingestible leftover from a 1969 concert) ?????ÿ
