My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

I know I'm in for a real shock when I have to replace this car. Which, I should start test driving things, so I'm not completely clueless. I know me. I will not preemptively replace said car before I hit a repair estimate that leads me to replace it. Which will mean a rental while I shop. Would be so much better if I had an idea what I wanted to replace it with. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 13 years (well, 16, if you count the car vintage.) Moreso than what had changed from '88-2000 (I bought my '88 sentra in 95 or so?)

For those who watched the Kentucky Derby today, Laura Hillenbrand picked Orb to win, which he did. She noted that he was bred by the Phipps family who also bred Seabiscuit, and is partly owned by the Janney family, who owned "the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."

"the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."

Oh, I remember when she died.

Clean toilet. Tub scrubbed. Tomorrow involves moving the bed to de-Devify the carpet underneath. Uhg. (I do it a couplethree times a year anyway. This time, there might be crying, though.)

What about steering wheels though? What do cars without steering wheels use? Joysticks?

My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off. As you guess, this was not a feature they were selling.

I was supposed to co-facillitate a PD today. I got there and had to run 90% of the entire PD. Which would normally be fine, if I had prepped for 90% as opposed to the 10% I had prepped. So I went completely off script. And may have gotten myself in trouble.

Ooops.

The Nissan Altima I rented when I was in CA for the F2F last summer had a keyfob that contained a switchblade-style backup manual key for unlocking the doors. Ignition on/off was by a button on the dashboard. If the keyfob proximity didn't activate the ignition, the backup was a port on the lower left of the dashboard where the keyfob could be docked. I don't recall whether the dock would also recharge the keyfob.

My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

Yup, mine too. Although the tape deck mostly doesn't work anymore.

Today I: went grocery shopping, made dinner for a friend with a new baby, went to visit friend and hold her new baby, went to Target (in and out for $53! yeah!), drove home, drove M to the airport for a flight to NYC, went to Gris & DW's Derby party, came home, fed the baby and put her to sleep, fed the cats, fed myself, scooped the litterboxes, washed a load of laundry, and watched an episode of ST:TNG. Need to switch around the laundry and install the new baby gate before I go to bed, and maybe start the dishwasher.

I hope we get at least a few hours of dry, sunny weather tomorrow. I'll be home with the baby all day and it would be nice to be able to go do something with her outside.

Jetta is actually not a good baseline for that. The VW group which includes Audi has been one of the last to add keyless as an option.

My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off.

My 1976 AMC Hornet was similarly keyless in 1989-90.

I have never had a car with CD player.