What happens with the handles of the car doors these days? | Dave Schilling

I Believe, deep in my soul, that the number one goal of the car manufacturers in life is to ruin the experience of the guide. I have no direct proof of this conspiracy to rob the pleasure of the open road, apart from the cacophony of acoustic signals, blips, Bloops and sticks that greet us in the latest models. Oh, and the screens. Every year, they try to find a new place to glue a touchscreen in a car, such as the hut pizza to hunt for multiple orifices to fill the cheese in one of their cakes.

Everything is computerized, automated or impossible to turn off. According to the surveys of new car buyers by the market research company Vision, satisfaction for cars controls precipitate of 23 percentage points In the last nine years. The Whiz-Bang Gizmos pushed on the buyer of Auto Nordamericane he donated by the glorious backup camera life-saving to the gesture controls that allow you to turn an invisible knob to make the volume Expressed without touching one thing in your vehicle.

In January of this year, BMW Abandoned gesture control In their cars after a running decade of forcing adults to hit and produce the air as a drunk mime on economic wine. The control of the gestures was cheaper for the car manufacturer because they could cut the real knobs, it is also more fun to look at while it was blocked in traffic.

Here’s what you had to do TO Make your car workAccording to the company:

• Turn on the volume: circle the finger clockwise.

• Lower the volume: surrounds the finger counterclockwise.

• Accept a call: Punta del Touchscreen BMW IDRIVE.

• Select Navigation/Personalized setting: use two fingers to aim for the touchscreen.

• Change the corner of the rear view camera: draw a circle using the index and thumb.

• Repeat your life choices: look in the mirror for 10 seconds.

When do I have time to learn this? You want me to draw a circle with not just one, but two of my fingers? What should I do if I lost a figure in a particularly gruesome lathe accident? Get a audi, that’s what.

If the car manufacturers are not trying to ruin the guide, then I am quite sure that they are only bored. After decades of the sector, claiming that an electric car was not commercially practicable, Toyota Prius has arrived and has relyned our expectations on what could be under the hood of a car. The Gas hybrid-part engine, partly electrical-was the first step for the fleets of fully electric vehicles of Chevrolet, Volkswagen and the used car you are desperately trying to sell but Nobody would dare to guide anymore.

The car manufacturers have solved the largest problem in the history of cars: that these vehicles emit real poison Every time you manage them. So Ennui started: “and Alexander cried, since he had no more worlds to conquer”. Yes, but if Alexander could remove some knobs from the console of your mini cooper? Maybe a Retractile door handle What do you have to constantly remember how to use? Hey Alexander, stop crying and Start playing Cat Quest in your car.

Volkswagen ID.4 Electric car was designed with electronic sensors inside the door handles. VW said that this helped with “reduction of resistance”: the handles were flush with the car, making it less resistant to the wind or something. This “innovation” barely registered with me. The only resistance I am interested in is prohibited in Tennessee. Of course, ID.4 crossed a huge call because the water was entering the sensors of the door handle and corroding the electronics. In addition, the drivers reported that the doors would open on their own While the car was moving. In the end, I can make a barrel from my car, Hand-.

In an attempt to solve the problems that do not exist, car manufacturers are creating more problems. Environmental lighting to make your car seem like an airport room. Touchscreen in passenger seats. Cameras so you can Look at your son to choose the nose Instead of looking at the road. The guide is often a frustrating chase as it is. You have road dangers, aggressive drivers and blocking of the grid with which to fight. ButThe automotive industry says And if it were worse?

I imagine both for this and Elon Musk, the owner of the world’s least popular car company in the world, has entered politics. It is still another effort that we must all suffer is quite bad, but it could be significantly more painful with just a little foaming. Shoot countless government workers, selling whole departments and considering legally appropriate funds It is not too far from looking at a car and saying: “What if the door had no handles?”

Cars and governments are the need for modern life. They are because we, people, have designed life to need it. We are irreparably intertwined with the car, with democracy, with a huge bureaucracy that does annoying things how to ensure us pest And our food is not full of excrement of mice. For Musk, getting rid of vital government services is like replacing your air conditioner with an entire video game system. A fun mental experiment! What if I had to solve a series of increasingly complex words to unlock your car? Would you give up and walk to work?

They are big enough to remember when things have improved, not worse. The televisions have become larger, the cars have become more efficient, the special effects of the film have dazzled us and Pizza Hut was still discovering new places to put the cheese. Someone decided to put a water distributor on a refrigerator door and we all rejoiced. Now, technology is solving the problems that do not exist. The IA has finally solved the problem of … Summarizing the e -mails that are a couple of paragraphs. Praise the Lord, technology has freed us from the scourge of understanding of reading. And, as an additional bonus, now I can transform a photo of myself into a Simpsons character. I can die satisfied.

I argue that things must not be worse. In fact, allow me to be so bold as to suggest that they could be Better. When the President of the United States says of “I couldn’t care less“If foreign car manufacturers raised their prices because of its rates, it is clearly saying that things must be worse for some reason. If we only allow the knobs to be brought out of our cars that now cost twice to what will do a vague thing that will happen. To be enthusiastic about this.