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My main concern with all the new bells and whistles on cars these days is that there is so much more that can go wrong. I'm already cursing an electric window in my thirteen-year-old car that no longer works.
I also get frustrated when I drive a car that doesn't allow me to take the keys out because I haven't slipped it into "Park" yet; or doesn't allow me to slip it into "Drive" because my foot isn't on the brake. Not allowing a manual car to start unless your foot is on the clutch makes sense, but if I go to slip an automatic car into "Drive" without having my foot on the brake, then I bloody well want to be able to do it. Just imagine not being able to drive your car because one of these mechanisms failed. This is probably why I like manual cars so much: manual transmission seems like the one piece of control I still get to exercise over a car.
But these are all first world problems.