# Modern 'convienences' that are make life worse. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802 "2014-11-16T21:28:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802/61 "2014-11-20T00:28:32Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I notice this the most on\* the Daily Show\* but I know I’ve seen it elsewhere since (kept a lookout for it, wondering if it was only a TDS problem). Just asking–is it possible you’re mistaking a faked delay (for parody purposes) as though it were a real delay? TDS “via satellite” segments are filmed right there on the same stage at the same time, aren’t they? Or are there particular segments that have actually been via satellite? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802/62 "2014-11-20T01:21:54Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > From their offices, they had to take 5 left turns and 1 right turn to get from their parking lot to the SAFB parking lot (L onto Walzem, L onto I-35, L onto I-10, R onto TX 151, L onto Old Callaghan rd, L in the parking lot) with 95% of this driving on relatively empty interstates. Instead of looking at a paper map (or even looking at a map of the city on Google), they all got in their cars, typed in the directions into their iPhones, and were taken on a cross-city journey of surface streets, one-way roads, and multiple traffic lights, turning a quick 15 minute journey into a 45 minute exercise in frustration. I haven’t found this at all. Plugging the addresses into Google Maps produces the quickest route 99% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802/63 "2014-11-20T01:31:20Z")
The only problem I ever had with car windows (in the OP sense\*) was of the manual sort, electric has not failed me. \*I did have windows crack and break but that is unrelated as that was the windshild and rear glass, both fixed. As such and similar, I find that things are getting better, actually much better. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802/64 "2014-11-20T02:45:05Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Sorry, but I can’t agree. I worked on cars from the 70s thru today and they have increased in quality and reliability several orders of magnitude. I’ve never had any of the above systems fail on a car made in the last 20 years… while I agree the reliability of cars increased exponentially since the 70’s that’s because it was originally designed obsolescence. It was just the opposite for other products like refrigerators or furnaces. They were built like tanks in the 70’s. But there is a trend in cars I really don’t like and that’s the computerization of everything. I have 2 cars of similar years from GM. One has 200,000 miles on it with only an intake gasket replacement. The other has less than 100,000 miles and it’s a fucking nightmare of unnecessary repairs. One has a hvac temp control switch operated by a cable and the other has one with a micro processor. I squirted a little oil on the one with a cable and I squirted $220 of money on the one with a micro-processor. One uses the old style turn signal relays and the other uses a microprocessor. One got 38 mpg WITHOUT the use of a mass air sensor and the other much less with a mass air sensor. Take a guess which one I’m happier with? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-convienences-that-are-make-life-worse/704802.md?page=3)