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!
So fucking cool.
85 Subaru XT
I’d argue split climate for the driver and passenger seat is the only important missing innovation.
Just point the vents fancyman
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?
Having auto climate with physical controls is peak. No adjusting dials, your car just gets the internal climate to the temperature you want and that’s it.
Absolutely. It’s easy to say that new technology ruins things, but all of this was new tech once. You could have just invented the potentiometer and made a control panel with nothing but them and it would be just as awful. It’s all about integrating the technology into the experience and designing in a thoughtful way.
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.
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.”
Then the a/c can’t be too cold!
Lol, yes, automatic vents are only beginning to get good (and are far from prefect).
For me it’s def not something you set only once. Witch is a fail by default.
I haven’t owned a new car in my life so I can’t say what they are now, but if it comes with a witch inside, I have to say I’d set them free. Lol
No, the witch is for private data only.
When it’s 100F or higher, there is no such thing as AC too cold.
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.
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.
Meanwhile in 91:
It’s not that I wanna compare high end at the time, it’s that this low tech took 20+ years to trickle down to basic equipment for no other reason than extra margins.
But to capture both - automatic climate control & touchscreens - some random 80s Buick:
I still remember the lever that you described
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.
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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
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.
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
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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How fast do you want it, how hot do you want it, where do you want it
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.
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.
I still have this. I can adjust all of it without ever looking at knobs while driving. Good luck doing that with touch bs.
