{"id":129519,"date":"2016-01-20T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/the-cars-they-are-a-changing.html"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:51:20","slug":"the-cars-they-are-a-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/the-cars-they-are-a-changing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cars They Are A-Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And significantly. A lot of standard things &#8212; from steering wheels with physical linkages to rear view mirrors to spare tires to CD players to ignition keys &#8212; are on the road to oblivion alongside the engine crank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/car-makers-bid-adieu-to-old-standbys-1453252655'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/u6EFhvEQOWkQsDqlONe-TFpzcnfrPjytHm-6fV56GFDM2Z4VqzhbV8EN37H0ILMLuoVKrpMJe0s-rI-5IkbRJ4kTYJGLMlrPe8MmP7nkP5MaRchUIGc3SBrg4eRLBQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/car-makers-bid-adieu-to-old-standbys-1453252655'>Car Makers Bid Adieu to Old Standbys &#8211; WSJ<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAnalog gauges, CD players are giving way to digital displays, auto-pilot technologies\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NScQaj8UPB5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And significantly. A lot of standard things &#8212; from steering wheels with physical linkages to rear view mirrors to spare tires to CD players to ignition keys &#8212; are on the road to oblivion alongside the engine crank. Car Makers Bid Adieu to Old Standbys &#8211; WSJ Analog gauges, CD players are giving way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/the-cars-they-are-a-changing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cars They Are A-Changing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/shot_in_the_foo.html","url_meta":{"origin":129519,"position":0},"title":"Shot in the foot","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Nov-02 8:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) announces it will be publishing all its CDs in the future with copy protection, even though they won't work in half the CD players out there....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media Moguls&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4244,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/09\/car_update.html","url_meta":{"origin":129519,"position":1},"title":"Car update","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Oct-03 9:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"More things I've learned about our new Subaru: The cup holder situation definitely sucks. 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