O Captain, my Captain.

I'm Gen Z and I remember this

Ahh, the 21st Century. When a guy burned you a CD if he liked you

The sound of the click as you push open the magnets

..and you actually had a chance of winning something too

That looks cool.

I still use them

In the US, the average new car is $47K, average annual income $53K. We wouldn’t mind manually rolling down the windows in affordable vehicles.

Those handles didn't break the way the push buttons do.

When I begged my mom to get us a new car with the "fancy new" automatic windows like my best friend's family had, she told me that automatic windows were unsafe because "if the car runs off the road and gets submerged in water we won't be able to unroll the windows and escape." My mother worries about the weirdest things. Our next car did, in fact, have automatic windows, because by that time all cars had them. I've never asked her about it, but I'm curious if she still thinks she's "unsafe" with those automatic windows.

I have a car with dis and im gen z

That's how my/my parents' truck is, I believe gen 1 1994 Dodge Dakota

More things automated, more things to breakdown.

My car has this 🤣

A few years ago we went to a hypnotist show. He had five volunteers on stage, all under hypnosis and they'd been given the scenario that they'd been pulled over by a cop (the hypnotist). He walked up to each of the driver's side window and asked them to "roll down your window please air/madam". Four out of the five mimed this action. The fifth pressed his automatic window button. This is still the image most people of a certain age will come up with - it's going to be around for a while.

I still do. No electronic anything to freeze or go electronically bonkers.

Hey, I can tell you that i never had to replace a manual car window, yet on multiple cars I had to replace the motor for the automatic windows. That my friend is a huge pain in the butt, especially when your window gets stuck down ten minutes into an hour ride on a snowy night. I'll take manual I'm humble

Still use em, always bought the most basic as less to breakdown. My vehicles are 2001, 2009 and 2011 and will get at least another decade out of them before we consider a new one.

And surprisingly enough we all made it through such a dark time in our automotive history.

I still have them at the backseat.

safer if your car ends up underwater.

My mams car has these for the back doors, I think they think it makes it safer as kids of certain ages don't have the strength to turn them but now most cars have electric windows with locks on the drivers side for safety

Don't miss rolling down/up my car windows.

All-electronic cars scare me. If something goes wrong there's no escape. At the very least I want doors and windows to be operated manually.

Not having to replace a worn out window motor would be fabulous!

Like AC saw no use for roll downs until I had one. Now see no reason not to have.

I prefer these to power windows. Power windows break too easily and can be expensive or difficult to replace if you don't have the money. I personally replaced the rear power windows on my van with the manual version from the junker van given to me, and summers are better now that we can get a breeze through the entire vehicle!

Still do, in the back of my car.

My truck has that now....

Oh, yeah...and God forbid, the k**b breaks

I've recently ridden in a couple Uber Priuses that had wind down windows!! I think it's becoming a thing again

I think one window should have manual opening in case the car ends up in deep water. Wouldn't the automatic window openers malfunction if that scenario happened?

Though the action is obsolete people still say, "Roll up the window." Likewise, "Dial the phone."

Actually I have automatic windows on my 1984 Chevy van