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jjav on June 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Software is eating the car

> The only computerized feature you listed is cruise control

Cruise control doesn't have to have any electronics at all either, earlier cars had vacuum actuated cruise control.

hallway_monitor on June 10, 2021 | [–]

Exactly. I remember when the cruise control vacuum actuated cable snapped on my Honda Civic. No more cruise control for me and I could hear the reason why!

JoBrad on June 11, 2021 | [–]

But it’s really bad cruise control that ends up costing MPG, s as well.

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