I'm sure it won't be long until manual wiper adjustments have to happen on a touchscreen...at which point the automatic will become an absolutely necessary feature and your car will be undriveable without it
That's basically life for any Tesla driver. Unfortunately they stubbornly refuse to use rain sensors and use eyesight instead which is not ideal. Worst automatic wiper feature I have ever used.
I'm sure it won't be long until manual wiper adjustments have to happen on a touchscreen...at which point the automatic will become an absolutely necessary feature and your car will be undriveable without it
We're already there. Haaaaaaave you driven a Tesla?
That's dorky. Automatic wipers are generally great. You hadn't noticed rain speed increases with vehicle speed and then slows down as you slow down? I love that the wipers just manage themselves. Never had any fail and I've had them on every vehicle since 2008.
oh.... here we go... Sliver bragging about all these vehicles he's owned in the last 16 years!! i bet they came with fobs and keyless entry too!
i'm just going to go back to my garage to take the door panel off my inner truck doors so i can grease the locking mechanisms becuz they are getting sticky after all these years... i wouldn't want to break my 'round' key trying to unlock the door... mind you... i still have the square key which i need to use for the ignition, so at least i can still drive the truck!
hey Sliver... did all your fancy-schmancy cars come with the pop-out cigarette lighter?? that sucker came standard in my truck... man oh man... if only i smoked!!! ha! ha!
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oh.... here we go... Sliver bragging about all these vehicles he's owned in the last 16 years!! i bet they came with fobs and keyless entry too!
i'm just going to go back to my garage to take the door panel off my inner truck doors so i can grease the locking mechanisms becuz they are getting sticky after all these years... i wouldn't want to break my 'round' key trying to unlock the door... mind you... i still have the square key which i need to use for the ignition, so at least i can still drive the truck!
hey Sliver... did all your fancy-schmancy cars come with the pop-out cigarette lighter?? that sucker came standard in my truck... man oh man... if only i smoked!!! ha! ha!
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I'm sure it won't be long until manual wiper adjustments have to happen on a touchscreen...at which point the automatic will become an absolutely necessary feature and your car will be undriveable without it
I love all these features and such, but them moving things to the touchscreen is just not worth it. It's far easier for the driver to have tactile controls. I get that the look is cleaner and maybe fancier, but it's not as useful.
Not so much of a gear grinder but amazement as to how people can get carried away when bidding on stuff.
I am in on a liquor store close out auction. I have a guys golf trip coming up so I thought I would try to get some cheaper booze for the golf marathon.
The auction is closing today and as I am checking on my bids I notice that some people have bid more than you would pay at the store for some of this stuff.
And its standard crappy beer / seltzers / coolers etc...
With the buyers premium and then GST, these people will be paying more than if they just went to their local liquor store.
Let's just come on out with mandatory driver re-testing every 5 years or so. And maybe accelerate that timeframe to 1-2 years after a certain age (I'll let you all fight on that benchmark).
I'll do you one better! I think mandatory testing every 5 years is brilliant, but you should have to take 2 driving tests. One sober and one piss-drunk!
The second one is just for the laughs and to stimulate the economy of the auto-body industry.
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Re-testing every 5 years should be a no brainer seeing as you have to renew your license anyways. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Heck, you might even be able to get the insurance companies on board with covering some of the costs since getting crappy drivers off the road would be good for their bottomline.
I don’t think in benefits insurance companies long term.
Maybe an initial bump from a reduction in accidents but once you have statistically significant data on the new rate of accidents premiums would adjust and the company would make less as in general insurance rates are actuarially calculated costs times a markup.
So long term insurance companies don’t care about the rate of accidents. They care if there is a change in the rate of accidents over the insured term.
So something like Covid was really bad as it increased the rate of death of people who are paying insurance rates based on historical rates of death. Getting people to live healthier who already have insurance pays off. So only by reducing death rates could you have any longer term impact on insurance profits.
oh.... here we go... Sliver bragging about all these vehicles he's owned in the last 16 years!! i bet they came with fobs and keyless entry too!
i'm just going to go back to my garage to take the door panel off my inner truck doors so i can grease the locking mechanisms becuz they are getting sticky after all these years... i wouldn't want to break my 'round' key trying to unlock the door... mind you... i still have the square key which i need to use for the ignition, so at least i can still drive the truck!
hey Sliver... did all your fancy-schmancy cars come with the pop-out cigarette lighter?? that sucker came standard in my truck... man oh man... if only i smoked!!! ha! ha!
Those were the best - roll up a chunk of weed into a little ball and drop it on the hot element and huff. The original one hitter hah. (not while driving, of course...passengers only).
