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Many years ago my station of choice when driving to work started running an advert for car safety. The sound effect was a loud blaring car horn and the sounds of screaming tires and a crash. The first, second, third time I heard it was instant jolt of panic and left me jittery. I switched stations after the third time.

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nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

be me, driving to work still tired and half asleep

turn on radio loudly to wake me up a bit

suddenly hear the most horrific accident happening

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take a second to compose myself

it was the fucking radio station

fully awake now

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Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And this is part of why I don’t listen to the radio while I drive. The other part is because I bought a cheap android stereo and I couldn’t be fucked to buy the adapter to hook my antenna up to the stereo.
I guess being lazy is saving me from early morning drive radio jump-scares.

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- vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Also radio is trash. My phone has like 13 hours of music on it and then YouTube music is practically endless, all I need is an FM transmitter or a tape deck because my car is from 2001.
  
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  - Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    HA! MAY CAR IS WAAAAAAAY NEWER THAN YOURS!
    
    …2006.
    
    When I bought it, it had an even cheaper android stereo in it. When I was looking for a interim replacement before I spent over £100, I found the one that was installed when I bought it…for £12.
    Ended up with an ~£80 deck that came with a half decent reverse camera, which was almost the only requirement for me other than Bluetooth.
    I honestly kinda wish it had come with a tape deck, being on the edge of old I still have a bunch of tapes. Used to have a load of CDRs, but rot got them. 🤷
    I have about 60Gb of music on my phone, I’ll occasionally switch some of it out for new stuff. I had Google Play Music back in what is now considered “The Day” and now I pretty much refuse to use any streaming service.
    
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  - Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    My car is from 2004, doing a radio upgrade was actually really easy and by far the best thing i did. It cost like $50 and gave me android auto, bluetooth, aux, usb and some other things i dont use. It was basically plug and play.
    
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    vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Or I could just not and save fifty bucks.
    
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