I suspect insurance costs might be an issue as well.  Ford is supposedly working on modular battery packs that can be repaired after a collision.  Batteries on vehicles with good thermal management (i.e. NOT a Leaf) appear to be lasting well over 300K km.  On the other hand, a minor fender bender won’t total your ICE…

A few thoughts:

I like the system in my Mazda but I'm old and use it for radio and CD and never play music from my phone. I also don't use the factory navigation so the i-Drive knob is fine for my needs and the navigation screen is good for compass heading and altitude. 

Lots of those beach retirement community towns are invariably built out of four-lane divided roads that connect individual country clubs to one another. If people want to drive golf carts behind the gates of their particular country club, that’s fine, as those are private roads. But outside, it’s just asking for…

No but it does make you at least 15, which is better than middle schoolers driving around.

I’m going to take a guess you haven’t spent a week in New Orleans.

Having seen the wreckage of a golf cart (and it’s unfortunate occupants) crossing a road from one private drive to another and being t-boned by a car: this is largely a law we need to protect ourselves from our younger selves.

My question is, why the hell are golf carts legal on public roads at all? They’re unable to keep up with traffic and wildly unsafe in an accident.  I can’t imagine what would happen if one got hit by an F150 or the like.

I just got back from Miami and the Keys - and my observation after 5 days in that part of Florida is that laws don’t appear to apply at all to middle-aged white people.

Does ANYONE have a fucking mute button?  That lack drives me insane.  So I have to make sure I have the cursor on the play/pause button on my non-touch screen and hope to Christ my phone’s cable doesn’t move slightly, convincing the worse-than-an-Asus-laptop trackpad that I was moving the cursor to basically anywhere…

Yeahhh good on them for requiring it.

Wireless charging for most phones using Qi wireless charging are at least 15 watts on the low end, averaging around 45w. iPhones only charge at 7.5w unless you’re using Magsafe, and even then they only charge at 15w. Apple is so concerned with battery life that they leave a lot of charging capability on the table. 

100% - if my phone is just going to sit there and I’m using it, why wouldn’t I just plug it in and get a more reliable connection and charging capability? I do not understand the appeal of wireless charging

ya’ll need to stop complaining about no wireless mirroring in cars.  Have we learned nothing, wired is superior, more reliable and it charges your phone at the same time.  Also requires no setup at all.  Kia’s system doesn’t do wireless and I could care less, its also a really good UI.

I have put about 450 miles on it so far, all in city driving. My only real gripes about it is the B&O audio system isnt really all that great, and there was something else, but I already forgot what it was, haha.

Especially now that they’re all bespoke and only used for a handful of model years.  Ask anyone with an XLR what their worst fear is. . .

ALLLRIGHT! Time to get that $60,000.00 C8 Corvette.... what... why are you guys laughing?

$5000 taillights aren’t helping either:

I picked up a 2023 Mach E GT a few weeks ago that had been sitting on a lot since May, dealer gave me $2500.00 off and there was a $1800 rebate from Ford. Still insane price, but I do love the car.

Insurance is ballooning out of control to compensate.