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.

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

I'd get a 1990s Toyota myself

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply