I'm all for computer controlled engine fuel and ignition, but otherwise I don't want computers in my car.

I was happy with my 1987 Chevy S-10 Blazer until the oil pan rusted out due to winter road salt. Then I upgraded to a 2001 GMC Yukon. The Yukon has some automatic stuff, and I hate it. If the newer cars have more automatic stuff, then I will hate that, too.

I don't believe you are correct that the laws and regulations require automation that needs for computers in cars. E.g., as I recall, we had anti-lock brakes long before we had computer chips in cars.

I used to be a car guy so understand quite a lot about cars and how they work. E.g., need computer chips to monitor the transmission? We've had transmissions for 100 years and quite good automatic transmissions since the 1950s all without computer monitoring.

For the drivers wanting Bluetooth, ..., an entertainment center, a communications center, a lot of self-driving, a touch screen, I doubt it.

Use computers to help with door locks? To me that is directly from wack-o land.

For what the computers do, I don't want it. For their buzzers and flashing lights, I wish they'd just go away. I don't want to pay for the chips when I buy the car, put up with the false alarms, or pay for repairs.

E.g., my Yukon has a little light on the instrument panel that says something about "BRAKE". Well, it's a tiny, obscure thing, so I looked at the PDF of the owner's manual I downloaded and got the details. It's a light about the parking brake. The parking brake is NOT on, and the light is a false alarm. I wish the light would stop, quit, turn off, go away, disappear, be gone. A false alarm for the parking brake and then reading up in the PDF -- WASTE of time. Busy work. Deliberate extra complexity.

To me, most of that computerization looks like a crowd pushing/following a fad, a fad that will go away in a few years.

It's like the low flow plumbing: Maybe, I doubt it, but maybe in a desert there is a reason. Otherwise it is a waste of my time -- takes longer to fill a pot with water. I don't live in a desert. We have plenty of water. Low flow is the result of people making work for themselves and hurting my life. But, the talking about saving water has died down and maybe the same for low flow plumbing. Hopefully any low flow is implemented with just a little restrictor that can be removed, drilled out, or otherwise disabled.

I suspect that the cars are designed so that no matter what happens to the computerization, the car will still function -- the doors will still open and close, the door locks will still work, etc. That is, the designers knew that the computerization is glitz, nonsense, that can't be permitted to be essential to the car.

The US has a compulsion, can't quit, "change the cars!!!!". Can't leave good enough alone. Bunch of people making jobs for themselves, jobs that don't need doing -- jobs doing things for helpless me I very much do not want done.

And, whatever else, that 40% is a big waste of money, and the US has more than enough pressures on family budgets to waste money.

Big Point: US is failing at family formation and having kids. The birth rate is so low that we are going extinct, literally, rapidly. IMHO, the main reason is that US families are short on money for having kids. The two big expenditures are a house and two cars. If we could save the 40% on each of the cars, then, net, the US would have more kids.

But I might be wrong, in small ways or big ones.

This whole thing is part of a big pet peeve of mine: I want to keep things simple and spend my time, energy, and money working on my startup or whatever, certainly not mud wrestling with maintenance of absurd nonsense on a car.

E.g., several times a day my Firefox browser reminds me that there is a newer version I can download. I HATE that. I do NOT want a newer version. Where can I even pay money to STOP the notifications of updates? A newer version will make changes, there are no changes I want, the changes may make some things worse, and there is nearly no chance the changes will make any improvements. The version of Firefox I use has something it calls "pockets". I don't know what they are, and I don't want to devote the time or energy looking into what they are.

The Internet, TCP/IP, the Web, URLs, HTTP, HTML, CSS, Ethernet, WiFi, etc. are all very nice and simple. I just want to use them, not futz with more that is worthless.

I needed a laptop, got one, and it had Windows 10. I HATE Windows 10. My development computer is Windows 7 Professional, and THAT is what I like and want. From all I've heard about Windows 11, I will hate it even more. I just want an operating system to do the basic things, let me run my programs and write more programs.

It goes on this way -- people trying to make a living by making stupid changes and then forcing them on me.