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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

useless infotainment screens that can’t do anything but playing mp3 off a USB stick

i had a similar thought a while ago and it feels like we're regressing back to the 90's

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I liked my recently departed 2012 chrysler infotainment system quite a bit. The sirius/xm radio kept 50 favorite artist and 50 favorite song alerts, had 300gb of storage for mp3s and the DVD system with headphones for the kiddos while we could listen to something else. No newer car I've driven, borrowed, or owned had the favorite alerts, and I'm going to miss the hell out of that feature.

Oh, it did have an aux jack and USB input as well. It was the cat's ass. For a grocery-go-getter, it rocked