Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

Posted by Anumbia24 at 11:33 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

Comments

Yes.

My wife and I were joking a few months ago about how viable a business opportunity it would be to manufacture cars that are old school. Manual locks, windows, transmission...standard radio, dash gauges ect. Make it so that a person looking for a 1988 Accord can buy something comparable but new.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-16 08:56 AM

Not if you drive a 1971 Pontiac HO 455.

Manual locks, windows, transmission..

Could just buy a Jeep.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-16 10:09 AM

I'd get a 1990s Toyota myself

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-17 05:17 AM

I'd get a 1990s Toyota myself
#3 | Posted by hamburglar

I drive a '94 Honda KEI truck. Crank windows, open door with a key, manual tranny, etc. It's bullet proof.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-09-17 07:58 AM

Teslas are.

I swear when I drove one it was like I was driving a big ole Iphone.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-17 03:44 PM

I hate that almost every vehicle is huge. 20 years ago there were multiple small cars you could buy with great gas mileage. Now everything is massive.

#6 | Posted by byrdman at 2025-09-18 02:06 AM

"6 | Posted by byrdman at 2025-09-18 02:06 AM | "

Amen.

I hate EV's for this reason alone- they are rolling kinetic missiles.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-18 02:14 AM

I hate that almost every vehicle is huge.

I bought an F-250 last year. Parked beside a '90 version, it's monstrous.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-18 02:15 AM

I hate that almost every vehicle is huge. 20 years ago there were multiple small cars you could buy with great gas mileage. Now everything is massive.

Posted by byrdman at 2025-09-18 02:06 AM | Reply

I'd rather have more metal around me than less. Those smart cars really scares me. Just sayin

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-18 02:17 AM

I'm old school. Old school people "drive" cars.

Newer people "operate" cars.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-18 02:17 AM

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