What`s the biggest snakoil in the automotive business?

>What`s the biggest snakoil in the automotive business?
Paying to have the air in your tires changed. People actually do this!

I figured out how to do it myself and finally saving a ton of money.

Self driving cars: normies want them because they'll want to use their smartphones as they """"drive"""" to work, but it sure as shit won't be legal to do that.

HOW??1!!1!!

Synthetic oil is a meme

diesel

Imagine how bad suburban sprawl will get when traffic is supposedly no longer an issue

I wish we could just ban 90% of the population from driving anything more powerful than a Gee Whiz

all gas stations here have coin operated air pumps.
half a euro or an entire euro just to put some air into your tires.

This.

I can tell when someone is a braindead normie because they think that they'll just be able to take a nap on the road or get drunk and let the car drive them home. Self-driving cars aren't 100% perfect on 100% of the roads all the time so all of the current laws about distracted driving and seatbelts will still be enforced in case you ever need to take direct control of the vehicle.

You'll need to sit there doing nothing. Don't even consider taking your phone out or messing with the radio because cops will be looking to pop you for distracted driving since they can't give speeding tickets any more but they still need to make up for the budget outlay.

Self-driving cars are going to fucking suck, if they're ever actually implemented. The tech is promising but there's still a lot of practicality reasons that they won't be as great as people think.

Once they are finally fully implemented in USA I'm going to up-sticks to some 3rd world shithole and continue to enjoy driving, maybe become a warlord but all in good time.

yeah no

self driving cars are only getting better from here

driving already sucks anyway

u suck

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>What`s the biggest snakoil in the automotive business?

>also general snakeoil thread
Seafoam and gasket repaie sealants

>in Brazil all gas stations have air pump for free
In counterpart, we can't have self serving fuel stations because of unions. You can't win always.

Synthetic oil is not a meme, but "super premium platinum ultra" oil is. There is no meaningful difference in wear between any synthetic oils with the same API certifications, whether you pay $17 for walmart SuperTech or $40 for a jug of Royal Purple.

t-petroleum engineer

>tfw in eastern urope air is still free

inb4socialism

heet.

There are places that advertise swapping out your regular tire air for NITROGEN fill. While nitrogen does change pressure, it seems to change pressure less with temperature and usage as the tire heats up.

Nevertheless, paying the premium fee for nitrogen isn't worth it. It still leaks out over time like regular air, so you end up topping off the tires with regular air instead of nitrogen.

This. Also regular air is 80% nitrogen.

rustproofing electronic module

Don't seagoing ships use those? Like electromagnets on the hull or something?

They have plates made out of a material that rusts faster than the hull

It is school chemistry, but somehow I forgot how they work

why are you here

Stop leak additives.

Basically when two metals are in contact, or when metal is in contact with sea water, a charge is passed through them. This causes galvanic corrosion. To slow it down, they use sacrificial anodes (a metal that is more reactive, and higher on the galvanic range) to divert the charge from the hull to the sacrificial piece. Learnt about it in a materials course a few semesters ago, pretty neat shit.