The next thing will be: I can’t toggle my AC because AWS is down.
your seats overheat and get stuck in the most forward position
Unless you pay the subscription fee.
You’re lucky if it lets you start the car.
Are you? I think I would rather a car that doesn’t start than a car that doesn’t have breaks
Or perhaps, I can’t toggle my AC because I forgot to pay my subscription fee.
Instructions unclear: AWS is doing fine, but my AC won’t shut off until I renew my BMW+ subscription.
You are joking, but I’m pretty sure a few cars could not start or got bricked because AWS went down.
Luckily for me, I don’t even know what ‘AWS’ means.
Everything after THIS was a mistake.
1985 Nissan 300ZX
One of my best good mates in school had an 84 200 that we dubbed Tron cause of this awesome setup. Great share, thanks!
85 Subaru XT
looks like something from cyberpunk
Hard disagree with this. Climate control has become a must for me since the early 2000s. Set and forget is always better than fiddling with things. And now my current car has three levels of automatic so it doesn’t go full blast at the beginning, it’s amazing.
Automatic AC is good. Having an accident while looking at which part of the touchscreen the finger has to press is straight retarded engineering.
So, even better argument for auto climate control. Set it once when you first get in your car and are still parked, then leave it. However, yes buttons please. If this meme is about buttons vs touch screen, then I strongly agree with the meme. My vehicle not only has the auto climate, but also it is using buttons. They’re stupid capacitive touch buttons that Hyundai has since switched back away from, but at least they’re always in the same spot and I don’t have to change any screens to access them.
I’d argue split climate for the driver and passenger seat is the only important missing innovation.
Just point the vents fancyman
I somewhat regularly drive 9+ hours and split controls are not really comparable to just pointing the vents. If I am the driver, I need cool air blowing at me to keep me awake and alert. No longer having to compromise with passengers has been a pretty big improvement for a drive that long.
While I’m eating sushi, snapchatting, and flipping off that jerk that cut me off?? That sounds dangerous.
That and the ability to set a temperature that is then automatically maintained.
Till one of the 3 in vent temp sensors fails and my AC won’t turn on until its replaced but you have to remove the entire dash to access it so it would cost $1500 to change a $20 sensor
3 zone a/c is also pretty nice. No more “it’s too <exact opposite of what the driver is feeling>” whining from the back.
True, but in my experience that’s on a separate console in the back seat.
Por que no los dos?
So long as the vents have analog dials that manipulate how much air is coming out. Otherwise I’d have to be pro left/right temperature difference. When it’s 100 degrees out side and someone says the AC is to cold it blows my mind
If there is 100 degrees, your water boils.
Then the a/c can’t be too cold!
Probably means 100 degrees of Freedom° units no C°
He should have said so! He may as well measure distance in bananas or area in stadiums 😂
Celsius is near useless as well, you can’t use it for anything without converting it to kelvins first. Both F and C are “because we use it and it’s familiar”. 100 degrees we should have said your blood is already frozen! Turn the heat on
Celsius is near useless
Found a USian 🤦
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
There is in fact 100 degrees. 360 degrees if you can believe it.
There is such a thing as the AC being to cold. When I turn it all the way down in my car it’s like being inside a freezer. It legitimately starts to hurt where it blows on your skin after a while. Same with the heat though, it gets so hot that you burn yourself if you touch the vents.
I miss my old car where the engine was so small it got up to temp in minutes even in -30 and the airflow was so direct it felt like it was burning your hands if you aimed it right at the steering wheel
Yeah, I’ve got a 2.3L engine and the heater gets warm by the time I leave the driveway. Strangely enough the 1.2L engine in my moms car takes forever.
huh. the 1.4L in my old car is what I was referring to
my current 2.5L takes forever in comparison, so did my last 2.0L (Mazda3)
When it’s 100F or higher, there is no such thing as AC too cold.
I’ve got an old car and it’s still like this. I don’t look forward to the day I have to get a new car.
Yeah like, all I wish my car had was Bluetooth capabilities but besides that I love my older car.
Swap the radio its pretty easy and only costs like $50. I got an old Japanese import that has Bluetooth that connects to my phone as I enter the car. Its also got USB to play music from and charge from.
Good call, I definitely had the thought but never pulled the trigger on it because I never found a specific replacement that I liked. I’ll have to look into it again when I can afford it!
I was considering upgrading to something with a screen and maybe gps, but couldn’t lock a model down.
I disagree. I like that I can set my temperature to an exact number and the car will automatically adjust to that temp. We should have stopped there. No need for touch screens. That’s was the holy grail of temperature control.
I’d add being able to set a different temperature for the driver and passenger. It’s a godsend for relationships.
Hard agree. I came to say the exact same thing.
Wrong. This has no ads. How will I become a tech billionaire if I can’t disable your breaks until you watch my ad?
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I think you mean brakes, but funnily enough both work in this context.
I did, but wait how does the other one work?
EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. That’s funny. Now I’m happy I can’t spell lol
Yours is a decade or two past the true ideal. Not pictured: the 5-inch sliding control that mechanically adjusted between recirculated and exterior air and the drivers and passengers pull-knob by the feet that let exterior air flow in directly. A heavenly touring experience.
Also on the one pictured in your post, I find those lit press to toggle ac and def buttons with indicator lights wore out over time and required a ton of force to switch on the cars I’ve had with them.
Spot the roach
Ironically, my 2018 Subaru is more mechanical than this. 2/3 dials are mechanical, cable-driven flaps / valve for heat and vent control. Only the fan is an electric dial.
I still remember the lever that you described
I want to set my hvac to a temp and let it sort out whether it should heat or cool.
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The only complaint I have with this is that you can’t control which vents are open when you turn on front defrost. I prefer a button for each vent.
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Except backup cameras. Everything else is bad
Backup cameras are cool but they’ll never stay backup cameras. Give manufacturers that screen, and well, if you have it, you’ve gotta use it
The Sprinter I used to drive for work had a backup proximity alarm that beeped faster as you got closer to walls/cars/etc; it was fantastic. Only downside is I don’t know how well it would detect people
One time I rented a uhaul van and it had a backup camera that would show up in the rear view mirror. Not the whole thing mirror, but it had a little screen embedded in it.
Oh that is cool
First gen tundra controls really are excellent. They and used mechanical linkages for the diverter and for the hot/cold control. The only problem is the knobs get loose over time and can break or fall off when you accellerate.
How fast do you want it, how hot do you want it, where do you want it
Only missing a night picture with the red LED backlight on
Yes the temp sensor is a worthy addition to the formula. Imagine fiddling with your 80s/90s A/C running on ye olde R-12 to get the temperature right lol.
Agree with the addition of a low and high setting. I don’t care what the target cabin temp is, if I just got into my car after braving some crazy wind chill I want to be air fried for a bit.
