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I'm on a business trip to Chicago. I had an interesting experience on the way up.
I got up really early and grabbed a motor pool car. Early enough that I was playing the radio for something to drive to. The radio was the usual modern type with "seek" buttons, meaning that the radio will select channels in that direction until it finds one that's reasonably strong and stops there. That way you don't have to be fooling with it trying to find stations while you drive.
Well, this particular radio seems to be way too sensitive in selecting stations. It stops on about every other frequency slot, and so I ended up hearing weak stations, or stations overlapping. It was very annoying.
At some point I realized that a completely manual tuner would have worked much better in that particular instance; like the sort that were in car radios even 20 years ago. My revelation was that I was so used to tuning radios the electronic way, that my initial reaction wasn't to wish for an older style radio, but to be cross about the over-sensitivity of that one.
It's amazing how much better one feels after 10 hours of sleep. Off to shower, then to work.