<p>Yea, I know, but I think he’s been around customers who get tired of having to have their vehicles serviced because one or another electronic thing in the vehicle is broken. Sometimes more electronics is not ALWAYS better, especially if it means more expensive trips for repairs. </p>
<p>Laptops and netbooks we’ve owned recently have not lasted long 1.5 to 2.5 years before they break and are unrepairable. If comparable components are being used for cars, I’d be concerned about having to have the components replaced frequently or having them cause serious problems with the vehicle. </p>
<p>I do recognize that I have had many of the features you mention in my vehicle and NOT had problems with them. I have driven cars where these features were repaired by “mechanics” who rigged them just so they were “repaired,” but they no longer operate quite as originally designed or intended. These were not my used vehicles, and though they were offered to us, we declined them because our mechanic (whom we trust) said he can’t even figure out what was done to the vehicles and encouraged us to “just say no.”</p>
<p>Anyway, I know that whatever our next NEW vehicle is will likely have many of these new features and perhaps more will need to be set aside for maintenance and servicing. <sigh> I do like some of the new features, but am hoping that they won’t be too quirky or require TOO much servicing.</sigh></p>