Comment by asdff

Seems like early 2000s cars were the last of the good cars. You had full airbags by that point but cars were mostly still just basic fuel injected internal combustions engines with sensible transmission choices that had seen probably decades of iteration at that point. If you wanted some crazy infotainment its not hard to roll your own with the standard sized stereo slots in those cars. No telemetry. No "driver aids" behaving nondeterministically. Mechanical linkages vs by wire. Just a car. Starts with a key. Exactly what is says on the tin and nothing more or less.