>animated turn signal lights>illuminated grill badges>mood lighting
>>29093218>Automatic transmission
>>29093225Automatic transmission is based
>>29093218>>animated turn signal lightsford had it on their 60s thunderbirds, it was a pretty complex mechanism.>>illuminated grill badgesi remember seeing a light up grille show up on yahoo japan a few years back, for an 80s toyota mark ii and the guy was asking like 500 usd for it
>>29093226Based on fagotry
>>29093251Wow they incorporated a flasher into the turn signals. Wow such complexion
>>29093267yea bro your flasher relay needs a rotating cam and motors bro10/10 disingenuous posting
>>29093225>Bodied those freaks
>>29093251>motors and relayslmoa that is hilariously overcomplicated. they couldn't come up with something simpler than that?
>>29093276back then transistors were 10-100x more expensive and unreliable than they are now
>>29093276Not in the early 1960s
>>29093277couldnt you use capacitor charge/discharge or something as a clock
>>29093295Yeah lets just put in a swiss time piece into a Chevy. Brilliant
>>29093297they did that though, as seen in >>29093251 meanwhile, electronic oscillators date back to the 1880s amerimutt engineers are just retarded i guess
>>29093298They did whatever was the cheapest at the time. Doesn't matter if a better way existed. It wasn't cheap
>>29093295>>29093298probably operational requirements or something that made them decide it was impractical for mass-produced vehicles.
>>29093304>do we use couple of 1$ tubes we can slap on a piece of that newfangled plastic stuff or do we pay a literal 25 Year Old Boomer 8.91/hr to painstakingly mill a wristwatch to drive lights no one asked for>both, it's cheaper :)
>>29093311the cams were plastic so likely injection moulded, which tends to be cheaper with high unit counts
>>29093251Wolesley had a lit up grille badge in the sixties.
>>29093359*Wolseley
Is this the bwh thread (oh 420chan died years ago)?0.5L whiskey, 30mg amphetamine, 600mg THC. Daft Punk is playing in my house, my house.Keep it simple, stupid. Adding complexity for a visual gimmick is rice.
>>29093366wolussy*
>Remove windshield spray system>Remove cruise control>Shave off DOT markings for a cleaner look>Pull driver aids (ABS) fuse or have a car without ABS
>>29093311brah. the hourly rate in the 1960's was was like 15 cents an hour and a dollar was the equivalent of $30
>>29093399My hourly rate when I was 16 was $6.75 / hr.That's about $13/hr now.Adults are expected to make $16/hr with no benefits and be happy.That doesn't work. I have a stem degree and even $30 an hour is increasingly becoming a fantasy, I made $30/hr a decade ago for a starter job where I did easy sysadmin shit.
>>29093418i make 28 for easy sysadmin shit and feel like i'm living paycheck to paycheck. i do make some "luxury" purchases on bike tools and parts but for the most part if i didnt have a few tens of thousands in savings from starting early as a literal child i would have to have a roommate. 28/h just 5 or 10 years ago would have been insanely good for my age and education levelbut THEY keep raising the prices of shit and going "Inflation? What inflation? It's just le war it's just le plandemic just blame the browns lol :^)"boomers ruined the world and keep making it worse and worse
>>29093426>i make 28 for easy sysadmin shit and feel like i'm living paycheck to paycheck.Exactly, man. It's wild. you kick ass in life and end up making just enough to survive living above your parents' garage. Thermodynamics, differential equations. 3D cad? Professional certifications? Nobody cares amymore.
>>29093399>and a dollar was the equivalent of $30an automotive relay is 15-30bux now so seems legit, i would have used the 1$ tube
>>29093432a dollar in the 60s is roughly 15 bucks now, the other anon was a bit off
>>29093218>>29093225>power to front wheels>less than 4 cylinders
>>29093458What about 0 cylinders to all wheels
>>29093466Why would you ever want a car to send power to the front wheels? That's literally anti-driving. It's wrenchlet ricer mexican activity.
>>29093225This
>>29093359Rice knows no time
>>29093218>led headlights of any kind>black wheels>unpainted carbon fiber>iphone/ipad instrument cluster>sheet of plastic covering the engine>nu-electric car
Mood lighting is nice though Dont care about badgesAnimated indicators should be illegal
>>29093251
>>29093218>illuminated grill badgesThis was first done back in the 1930's by Wolseley, which makes it based
>>29093731It only looks good on that Wolsley since it's not a retardedly bright LED. That badge has a tasteful warm and faint glow.
>>29093736>it's not a retardedly bright LEDNo, it wouldn't have been in the 1930's, would it?But you have a point outside of my snark. When I was a kid you could tell a Wolseley at night from the faint glowing light from the middle of the grille
>>29093218
>>29093469We in Mexico drive more manuals than in America thoughever
>>29093847You also have more drug cartels. Your point?
>>29093847I never said anything about manuals you dumb mestizo spic
>red turn signals
>>29093218>a giant iPad tablet mounted on the center of your dashboard that determines whether or not you can use your car>NO BUTTONS
>>29093225only good for luxo cruisers and garbage trucks
>>29093226Sure, if you're an old woman.
>>29093218>removing the oil level dipstick for both your engine and transmission>making every electronic component rely on software programming even if it's a turn signal bulb>software updates for your car
>>29093776what that pic is showing is the DRLthe actual headlights are below the lit up "headlights" lollmao even
>>29093686Feels like I every time I see those they blink all over the place and out of order.
>>29094165With all the regulations cars have, I have no idea how red turn signals are legal.
>>29093218>taillight is a thin monobar with a strip of LEDs spanning across>rear emblem is also lit up
>>29093218>third brake light is an integrated LED module so when it goes out instead of a 10 cent 194 bulb it's a $100 assembly >headlights are integrated LED sealed assemblies so when it goes out instead of a $50 H4 bulb it's a $3500 assembly >instead of wires running straight to the door locks and power windows and door speakers they run to a door control module first so that can brake too>reverse light control module>making DEF fluid mandatory but making the DEF sensors in the tank non-servicable so when they go bad you have to throw the entire tank away and buy a new one. which is on backorder >parts that are 6-12 month backorder
>>29093686Why doesn't the US engineer stuff like this anymore?
>>29094423because it's too expensive and requires effort.
I cannot describe how much I dislike these stupid fucking led strips that truck fags but on. They're usually super cheap too, so they've either got dead LEDs of bad connections, or are somehow delayed from their actual tail lights. Fucking awful. For what it is worth, I hate the stupid flashing break light mods just as much
>>29094469Then don't buy any. There, that wasn't so difficult.
>>29093251The front turn signals were paired with the middle light on the rear turn signals and when using the four-way flashers the relay box was supposed to go into a third mode where only the middle lights, and therefore the front turn signals, were in use. This third mode often failed so what you'd get was both rear sequential signals operating at the same time and is a really cool effect. >>29093276They did go to the "dynamite stick" sequencers around '68
>>29093218mood lighting is annoying but the rest of these i don't hate, and that's coming from someone who only owns pre-2008 cars. animated turn signals look pretty good when done well. i like the mazda crossover rear turn signals, they're like 5 frames which puts them in the uncanny valley of turn signals; not on-off but not incandescent and i think it's a breath of fresh air. illuminated grill badges look fine on every car i've seen them on. illuminated grills don't even look bad, provided the grill they're put on doesn't suck. you just hate new shit because it's new.
>>29093591>headlights of any kind>wheels>paint>instrument cluster>covering the engine>car
>drivers side LED is brighter than the passenger sideCan someone explain this sudden occurrence to me? Are retards just buying their dodgy LED bulbs from aliexpress en masse or something? I see it on 3-4 cars every single day now
>>29094692Which one do you suppose is aimed more directly towards your face Einstein?
>>29094694The passenger sides always seem dead/dull einstein, I'd know if it was just a case of one light pointed at a 45 degree angle
>>29094677Final Destination
>>29094694it definitely shouldn't be
>>29094692the various agencies that check light brightness have just a couple of test points so to get "brighter" lights they dim that one spot and make the rest of it giganigga burn you with lasersand yeah lots of people just replace their lamps incompetently. where i live it's an epidemic too, but i also see just as many cars with a light simply out and definitely never going to be replaced
>>29094416>brake>>29094469>break
>720 infrared cam>alexa controlled transmission>1 cylinder
>>29093686lost technologynobody has been able to reverse engineervit
>>29096238>>29093686It's just a cam and some contactors. Are americans really so stupid they couldn't build this again? It's literally how modern cheap analog clocks work.
>>29096391it's lost tech, like manual transmissions
>>29093218>animated turn signal lightsThat's not a new thing, it's just come back. >illuminated grill badgesThat's a bit more rare but there are examples similar things like hood emblems.>mood lightingNever understood why someone would want more light in their car when it just makes it harder to see at night.
i have never seen "mood lighting" in a car that wasnt just some temu disco ball thing the owner bought and slapped on the dash>>29096455do americans really
>>29096463Most luxury cars have had mood lighting for the past 5 years.It's basically just gamer RGB for your car.
>>29096468disgusting.
>>29096463>do americans reallySorry we prefer our transmissions to shift in milliseconds instead of relying on outdated human reflexes. There’s a reason Porsche and Ferrari abandoned the stick shift for dual-clutches, humans are officially a performance bottleneck. But hey, if you enjoy doing a three pedal tap dance just to get worse gas mileage and lose at every stoplight, keep churning your own butter. We’ll wave from two car lengths ahead while our computers do the math.
>>29096488my vehicle does not even have a transmission but it could in theory be made to have one. it seems silly to lose the technology entirely. at the very least students in mechanical engineering classes should be able to study and understand it to see what we have departed and how it influenced more modern designs
>>29093218Wow I own an Audi with all of those things, plus 4 cylinders driving the front wheels
>>29096494I thought backlit front badge is strictly EV thing
>>29096500It's an official accessory nowAlthough the first thing I did was take it off
>>29093218>holographic badges
>>29096391it's not a matter of whether it can be done or not, it's a matter of how much you, the end consumer, are willing to pay for the production of such a device.
>>29096660well considering it's a retarded gimmick that does something I never asked for and don't want now that I've seen it,
>>29096468audis had it as far back as 2010, and i'd wager they weren't the first ones
>>29097011Mood lighting has been a thing in lowriders for even longer. It looks cool in an outrageous car like that, but tacky in a normal luxury car, and it's just getting oversaturated. It's a tired gimmick, and >>29096468 had a good point comparing it to RGB gamer bullshit. It's all so infantile.
>>29094165>can't tell if the gm shutting in front of me is turning right, has the hazards on with a broken left turn signal or is having a seizure on the brake pedal with a broken left turn signal>And now I can't tell if they are parked or reversing either
>>29093225Americans have small dicks and compensate by jerking bigger handles;)
