Unfortunately, my dad preferred filling up the ashtray with actual ashes. Hard to believe it used to be normal to smoke in your car (and house) with kids inside.

Your engineer roots are showing. :-)

You’re too young then. It’s the headlight bright/dim switch. They used to be foot-activated in most cars.

Actually, I don’t like buttons... (roll to dodge oncoming hate mail).

I just preferred filling up the ashtray with coins. 😂

The loss of physical buttons is such a sad thing. Blame capitalism and the cheapifying of car interiors, under the illusion of “luxury”. So much safer to quickly touch and click a physical button while driving, especially in a familiar car where it becomes muscle memory. What’s worse is when they do a mid cycle…

I’d rather see this than an ashtray or lighter. 

Think of the time and laundry savings when you get that cruise ship norovirus!

I’m no nudist, but my first thought was “how are the people being naked going to make a communal space like a cruise ship any more gross than it already is?”

Honestly I feel bad for the poor employees of NCL. Because even if you are ok with everyone around you being naked (lets be clear, a lot of people are not ok with that) the ship is not going to be filled with Scandinavian supermodels. It’s going to be full of a lot of people who’ve spent too much time at the buffet or…

Except Ford calls theirs Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Keeping Assist, and Tesla calls theirs Autopilot. Is the driver at fault for misusing the product?... Absolutely, but Tesla’s poor choice of naming certainly doesn’t help.

The difference is that Ford, unlike Tesla (aka Musk), doesn’t go around yapping about their cars being able to drive themselves. Tesla owners buy into the narrative and go around thinking exactly that, regardless of which system they are using. I have first hand experience of such an owner, and I refuse to drive with…

Because it’s different purely for the sake of being different, shifting disrupted.

windshield-mounted gear selector panel

#4 should be #1 it is way more important. I hope the UAW steam rolls the south auto plants. No more kids working for KIA and other BS they getting away with.   

I wonder how old this data is, because nobody should be paying above sticker price for either the F-150 or Mach-E since there are so many on dealer lots right now. 

It is hard to believe there is a markup on any Nissan.

While my gut is to agree, I can almost guarantee that the societal costs to the rest of us increases because of things like this. Obviously the fatalities have both direct and indirect costs associated with them, but what is left out here is the likely increase in numbers and in severity of injuries. Injuries that…

“Xenon/HID headlights”

“Balanced” is not searching to find a few silver linings in a steaming pile of shit that overpromised and underdelivered for a much higher cost than advertised and continues to be in a beta state of release.