Remember when it was a driver’s rite of passage to know how to do certain tasks like check the oil and change a tire? Even driving in snow — which no one seems to be able to handle today, despite the proliferation of four wheel drive and all wheel drive, traction control, ABS, and functioning heaters and defrosters — is so challenging that schools and businesses close down at the threat of snow flakes. We’re long way from bias ply tires, vacuum wipers, and rear wheel drive, yet somehow, we managed with no cell phones or weather apps. And get off my lawn, you kids! But I digress.
Checking oil in a modern car — not an EV — often requires navigating multiple infotainment menus to find the digital quantity indicator and changing a tire requires, well, a trip to the shop on a flatbed. Dipsticks have gone the way of inspection stickers in NH and spare tires are fading fast, too.
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