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Muriel Palmer-Rhea's avatar

We just leased a Subaru Forester; the screen is built into the dashboard. We asked if it could be removed. “Why would you want to do that? The screen is your link to your phone and entertainment.” The best use for that screen is for backing up, it links to the rear camera; very distracting otherwise.

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Tim Long's avatar

Yup. Karen's CrV has the same feature, which I find irritatingly distracting. I've read that higher-end car companies sell the data gathered from your driving around to vendors linked to The Machine, too. But then my car is a rust free fifty-year old Volvo wagon, which is 'tech'd out' with five transistors in the radio. It 'pairs well' with the fifty-two- year old Triumph Bonneville which is my more fuel efficient ICE vehicle. Not a chip to be found anywhere in its circuits. :)

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David Chandler's avatar

go Bonnie me too

and 66 vw sedan

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Cate001's avatar

My daughter had to drive a car without a backing camera and without lane correction. She really noticed how she'd lost the ability to be aware of the need to do small fundamental driving corrections because her car does it for her. I find her car to be a mess of annoying beeps. My car has a screen that I put in myself because I wanted access to music, but no backing camera. It's pretty basic othewise.

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