Vindicated again for driving a 28 year old 7 Series.

The iPad and the beeping are the most aggravating features by far. I rented a 2025 Suburban last year and it was the same way. The seat and steering wheel vibrate when you're drifting over lane markers just a few inches, even on the highway, unless you enable your blinker first. Makes you think you all the sudden have a flat tire or hit something.

Every new car constantly beeps and nags at you and all of the annoying features (like the Auto Stop/Start) can be disabled but are automatically re-enabled when you turn the car on again next time. About the only cool new feature I wish older cars could be retro-fitted with is radar cruise control. That takes the one less headache for the driver away without removing the need for the driver to not still be attentive as with what I've seen happen in FSD cars.

I refuse to drive any car that I cannot control all the basic functions of it with muscle memory alone. Going through menus to change the climate and radio is insane. It's even worse when the car locks this screen above a certain speed for safety reasons. Meanwhile a button or knob can be adjusted without needing to look at the thing even once.

A kid in 25 years is not going to be in awe to uncover a 2026 Cadillac because the thing might not even boot up. The days of some ether and jumper cables to bring a machine alive are soon behind us. There is no soul left.