I love that feature. Works a lot better than Gm’s old autronic eye.
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Use your smartphone.
Great for deer spotting. High beams are the best accident avoidance system ever.
I’m sure you don’t use that often. Tires, especially the shoes your Mustang wears, are expensive. I’ll leave heroic burnouts to Freiberger and Dulcich on Roadkill.
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Even if you can’t link your phone to your car’s video screen and audio speaker, simply using something like WAZE on your smartphone gives you extremely accurate GPS–at zero cost.
On my 2011 Outback, the GPS was CD-based, so obviously new roads and new addresses were not known to that system once it was a few years old. I was very surprised that Subaru never tried to sell me an updated CD set, and when the car’s GPS drew a blank about a destination, I simply put my phone into a holder with a suction cup, attached it to the windshield, and used WAZE.
My new car comes with 3 years of GPS, which displays beautifully on the 14 inch video screen, but because it also links to my cellphone, I will simply use WAZE when that 3 year subscription expires, and I will be able to display the WAZE maps on that screen while it talks to me through the audio system.
I tried it once after the car was broken in. Then again for video that some former students were making for a project. The last time I used it was the day before I was getting a new set of tires, figured it didn’t matter at that point.
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I made the mistake of updating our Acura once. I think it was on sale for $100. It took about four hours of the car idling to install it. And the new version had just sort of updated restaurants not roads. It still showed I was driving through a corn field instead of the new road that had been built.
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That’s where EVs will be even better, no transmission to down/upshift to get going from speed
Like a sewing machine. As a kid when mom wasn’t looking, I’d get on her sewing machine with the foot pedal and pretend I was driving. Never thought you’d have to have the fake vrrrooom sound.
@Bing. I couldn’t hot rod my mother’s sewing machine. It was s New Home that operated manually by pedaling a foot treadle. She inherited the machine from her mother.
As to gimmick features on cars, I saw a 1939 Master Deluxe Chevrolet at an estate auction in 1954. One of the m factory accessories was a two level horn. There was a knob on the dashboard. One position was marked “CITY” and the other marked “COUNTRY”.
One must have sounded like a barking dog to scare the cows off the road. One dark night I was heading to the cabin in a rural part of the state. There were cows on the road so I called the patrol. The guy asked me if they were black or brown so they knew what farmer to call. How would I know , it was dark and I’m a city kid. Just get someone to get the off the road.
Heh heh, my grandmother had her treadle machine in the basement where I was most of the time so that got a workout too trying to figure out how it worked. Like Henry ford who took his mothers machine apart but was smart enough to get it back together again 
Not necessarily. More powerful motors need more juice to reach 60 in 4 seconds instead of 6 seconds. It depends on what buyer segment the manufacturer wants to sell to.
That was one of the “deluxe” features of the Renault Dauphine.
Other European cars had separate buttons for the two horns.
Heh heh, when we special ordered our 86 park avenue, one of the options was for the two tone horn. I think it was $15 so I added it to the list. What the hey, you only live once. Never used the horn hardly at all though except to test the two tone horn.
My parents’ 1956 Oldsmobile’s steering wheel had a horn ring such the driver could merely flex a wrist and hit the horn with the heel of the hand. Quite handy. Not a safe design by today’s standards but handy.
Horn rings were pretty-much standard equipment in the '50s & '60s–except on the bare-bones strip-o models of Ford, Chevy, & Plymouth.
Our '55 Plymouth Belvedere had a horn ring, but if one bought the more-basic Savoy model, it didn’t have a horn ring. Unfortunately, the one on our Plymouth was made from fairly-fragile White Metal, and the lower portion of it broke one day. From then on, our Plymouth had a horn ring only on the upper portion of the steering wheel.
Just found out I have defrosters for my side view mirrors. (2018 Kona) . pretty neat. The heated seat still feels weird, though.
Loving the heated seats and steering wheel when I get lucky enough to drive the wifes car, and it has not even gotten below 0 yet! I’ll be macho man and keep driving mine without!
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