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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Most of the things you listed can - and have - been done with physical controls at one point or another. It was nice, because you could do it by feel and memory after you got used to your car.

The modern perception of “car” is so, so different from the one I grew up with, and I’m not that old - I learned to drive in the early naughties