We are of a generation that can go back to that simplicity without any trouble whatsoever. Even my wife (ten years younger than me) relies on sensors and idiot lights (and routinely ignores them) and was brought up in a world where the car is intended to tell them such things rather than the driver knowing to do so on a periodic basis.
My daily is now fifteen years old and has the idiot lights, but no more than that. I cherish the old truck simply for its glorious lack of spurious and distracting tech. I will keep it in tip-top shape as long as I can just for that reason.
A new vehicle is on average $20k for the vehicle plus $30k for the interwoven tech I neither need nor want. I can't get anything without it, am forced to pay an astronomical amount for what I don't want in order to get the thing I need, then they have the utter audacity to include a subscription plan to pay more on a monthly basis to use that crap.
I will make this vehicle last for as long as I possibly can.
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