{"id":4117,"date":"2014-07-11T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:00:15","slug":"re-kids-dont-care-about-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/re-kids-dont-care-about-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: “Kids Don\u2019t Care About Cars”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this blog post today through a friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are 4+ blog posts I can derive from this very easily. There\u2019s modern dating, computers being dumbed down, the fact that everyone I know doesn\u2019t know how to change their motor oil and finally there\u2019s this idea that the car\u2019s days are numbered.<\/p>\n

Wat?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take this one step at a time. First of all, I\u2019m 27 and was born in 1986. My parents don\u2019t care about cars in a big way. They certainly liked having a car as self expression from my Mom\u2019s Miata and Dad\u2019s Dodge Ram to what they drive now, a bright yellow Nissan Xterra and a yellow Toyota FJ-Cruiser 4WD. We\u2019ve always been a Japanese car family\u2026i was scorn for buying a German car last year\u2026.in fact, the maintenance costs on the Golf R are killing me but it\u2019s a wonderful vehicle and I\u2019ll be getting whatever next Golf R \/ R400 comes out.<\/p>\n

RE: Cars are a utility:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cars appear easier now but they\u2019re not. Cars are incredibly complicated. Modern cars are trying to be like the iPod\u2026Great user interface, nice tech interior, safety features like blind-spot detection and rearview camera and a system so integrated, only the most up to date certified techs can work on them. But cars aren\u2019t iPods. You don\u2019t throw away a car and buy a new one every 12 months. Cars are expected to last 5-10 years for most people. The author\u2019s argument is moot because all of these extra features increase the failure points and make repairs much more expensive. Cars appear to be much simpler but they\u2019re not. The 2014 vehicle is a pain in the ass to maintain no matter how cheap or expensive it is. No car just turns on and goes even Tesla has moving parts.<\/p>\n

RE: Driverless Cars:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I work for a mapping company so I\u2019m going to tread lightly here. Driverless vehicles are incredibly hard. Very Very difficult to make work. Google\u2019s product ONLY works in one square mile in Mountain View. Take it anywhere else in the country and the failure rate goes way up, next to impossible. The reason why it works only in one area is because Google did a level of mapping that would bankrupt almost any company to take on at a global scale (at this time). Globally making a map that is accurate to the centimeter with every street sigh, traffic light, turn restriction and speed limit and elevation changes with 100% accuracy is (at this time) impossible.<\/p>\n

Car manufacturers are doing assisted driverless vehicles with the user of Radar and Cameras. They work okay but driver intervention is needed or driver must keep hands on the wheel and take up start \/ stop actions. We are a ways off from a driverless car to my knowledge. I\u2019m not allowed in the R&D apartment at my company or car companies but what I’ve seen publicly is very immature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RE: Roadtrips and Connections in real life are over:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wat? you\u2019re telling me that people don\u2019t meet up in person anymore? Why go to the mall? Just sexting is normal now. What? You\u2019re high on something. Regarding Road Trips I take them maybe 4 times a year. In the last 12 months, I\u2019ve been to Canada twice, Chicago, Albany twice, DC, New York, Philly and Boston a few times. I\u2019ve flown to more places but I\u2019ve driven 31,000 miles in my car in 13 months. I love driving and go on road trips often. A lot of my friends do as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RE: The 0-60 and Specs Race:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I agree with the author\u2019s sentiment here. Among the general populous, does a car look cool? Does it have cool technology? Does it fit my needs? Is the gas mileage good? That\u2019s it. Some people like a solid get up and go when the light turns green but most don\u2019t care. Only 1 person I know has ever seemed impressed when I said my Golf R\u2019s 2L Turbo multi-injection engine does 0-60 in 5.1 seconds. The next question from most people is, \u201cSo how\u2019s your gas mileage?”<\/p>\n

RE: GM versus Tesla and Brand Loyaly:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna need to lookup some market research here but I haven\u2019t met a single person who doesn\u2019t at least go back to the car company they bought from 5 years ago first when looking to buy a new car. They at least poke their head in Toyota again to see what\u2019s new. Tesla has a good brand right now but I\u2019m not sold on them for longevity. I\u2019d look a VW, BMW and Ford before I started shopping elsewhere. Most people share that sentiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RE: Today\u2019s youth don\u2019t care about Ferrari or luxury vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you saying that people under 40 don\u2019t buy car magazines anymore? Let\u2019s be clear here that most people don\u2019t buy cars to impress people. That might sound crazy and Ferrari still turns heads\u2026everyone looks to see one pass by when they do. I\u2019ve never seen someone openly point and laugh at a guy for driving one.<\/p>\n

RE: Public Transit or car alternatives<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a quick question. If cars are pointless\u2026how are we going to get around? it\u2019s hard to imagine life outside of San Francisco for most of my friends but let\u2019s be honest, when it\u2019s grocery day, you get a ZipCar or an Uber \/ Lyft. That\u2019s still a car! Where I live it\u2019s a 30 minute drive to the grocery store. There is no Uber or Lyft or Zip Car or ride-share program or bus or train or taxi\u2026well there is one taxi guy in my entire county. I\u2019ve used him once, it was atrocious.<\/p>\n

I really don\u2019t get why we\u2019re talking about cars going away. It\u2019s not feasible for people and no it\u2019s not going to change. Cities do get bigger yes, but when I move to up-state Vermont, you let me know when we get a taxi service or bus service.<\/p>\n

RE: Sound Quality & Media aren\u2019t important anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amen to that one. I agree with that\u2026I do also agree that cars are utilities to young people. I just think the author is going about it all wrong. He says Tesla is where it\u2019s at and driverless is the future, etc. Furthermore, saying cars themselves are not really needed or a big deal to young people. My sister who just turned 18 literally could not get to work without a car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway a blog post itself honestly but I have monitor earphones and speakers. I have all of my movies and TV shows digitized in 1080P at a high bit-rate. I don\u2019t stream media cause it looks absolutely horrendous. I still use an iMac because I love big screens when working. I have a full-size laptop, a full-size iPad and I work out with an iPod Classic because my high-bit rate songs take up a lot of space. I use a real digital camera w\/ lenses. I appreciate quality immensely and that goes for my car too. I don\u2019t want to just get to work, I want to be a driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And maybe one day all of that will go away..the writing is on the wall but at 27, aren\u2019t I too young to feel that way? This guy\u2019s article makes me feel like I\u2019m 60 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There will still be people always who don\u2019t want driverless cars. I LOVE driving. I\u2019ll still clench to my iPod. I think Spotify sounds like crap. I\u2019ll use my bulky headphones and actually cook meals at home. I\u2019ve never been one of those Shampoo+Conditioner in one kind of guys and I\u2019m not about to start.<\/p>\n

There are things in this article that make sense but it\u2019s being written in so many absolutes that I have a hard time really getting behind the author\u2019s point.<\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

A few of my friends have used my car from time to time. They see a VW, a practical Golf, something inexpensive and fun to drive. Then they get back from driving, their hair messed up, their eyes wide open, \u201cThat was the most fun grocery store run I\u2019ve ever had\u201d Exactly. Practicality is nice but at the end of the day, pressing the accelerator is the most fun we can have without going to some exotic location and standing over an active volcano. It\u2019s a rush.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Found this blog post today through a friend. 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