Some kind of signal to the car approaching you from the rear with their high beams on. Something like a laser beam in their eyes!
You want your car to have the same processing power and memory as a cheap computer? As long as it isnāt as unreliable as a cheap computer, I am fine with that.
Better OS?-Kevin
Gas tank access should be on passenger side. 1. When you pull up to a QT pump you wonāt bang your door into their stupid stone pillars. 2. Youāll be less tempted to get back in the car while itās fueling - very dangerous in dry, cold weather due to static electricity. And if you do get in and out and create a spark, it wont be adjacent to the fuel filler.
How about standard shift patterns. Years ago they standardized the automatic shift pattern. With the development of the Tiptronic/Selectronic/whatever transmission, the automakers seem to have had a brain fart; on some, you logically tap up to shift up, pull down to shift down. On the new BMWs, you pull down to shift up and tap up to shift down - Dumb!
I was thinking of hardware, not software.
They standardized the automatic shift pattern because Reverse was at the end, making it possible to shift into R when you meant 1 or 1 when you meant R. Though I will agree, the BMW paddle shifters are unintuitive.
Like to see more intuitive controls and standard,I still get the switches confused on the latest vehicle I bought-Kevin
I Reread. Itās Not Backwards. I Live On A Fresh Water Lake Where The Sea-Doo Operates. My Car However Operates In Salt Water On The Roads For Nearly 6 Months Per Year.
Our state and county road commissions dump tons of salt per mile of roadway all winter long in an effort to melt snow and ice.
CSA
Manual roll-down windows. I know most people will buy their car with the electric windows, but I hate them. They always break on me. Give me a a piece of glass attached to a handcrank, and I will be a happy man.
Yes,I try to get them on my personal vehicles-Kevin
I get horribly confused by electric window switches - my 94 Volvo has the old-fashioned rocker switches, while my wifeās 08 Scion has the new style switches - and I get mixed up between them, because the āpush downā feeling in the Volvo comes from pressing the forward end of the switch - which rolls the windows UP!
As for driving stick, Iāll take an H-pattern, please, and not a dogleg first pattern; I want to need to make an effort to put it in reverse!
Of course it would, but it would also allow for the control freaks to have exactly the apps they want, for the obsessive tweakers to do their thing, and for the tasteless to have their blinginā style, all on the same base vehicle!
Less, less, less. I finally had to give up my old Honda and submit to a āconvenienceā filled car, my first with power anything. Still canāt push the door locks the right way the first time, and the power steering is way too touchy. Give me crank windows, manual locks, and a radio I can tune on a continuous scale.
I purchased an 07 Sentra new, and the power windows and locks were standard. I didnāt want them, but thats what they had. I agree with ABS, but all of the other stuff they can keep. In less than 2 years, the driver window doesnāt want to roll down, nor does the lock button on the driverside want to work. Nissanās have always been good cars, and maybe itās just mine, but the CV joints, master cylinder, and airbags have all been replaced. I take care of my cars, but now it is almost out of warranty, and Iāve got a feeling Iām going to get rheemed. New cars are crap!
Wow,bad deal.I say the simpler,the better.If you dont have it cant break-Kevin
Amber rear turn signals
Automatic headlights- on with windshield wipers- (I hate when drivers donāt turn lights on during dreary days.)
Rear Fog Lights
Daytime Running Lights
Low Beams that STAY ON when High Beams are activated (always bugged me!)
Amber front fender turn signals
Notice a pattern here? these are standard on almost all European cars- Iād like the US to catch up.
For me, of course, but mostly for that idiot in front of me who insists upon driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake: an automatic cutout. When the brake is applied strongly enough to light the brakelight, the gas pedal will automatically disengage. A quick and efficient teacher.
Iāve had power windows on all my vehicles for 20 years- never had one break yet- what do you folks do to them?- and they were all American cars too!
they had to change the window switches- kids were getting killed when they leaned out the window and inadvertantly leaned on the switch- that prompted the lift-up to go-up type of switch.
After a few years weāll forget the old style- remember floor mounted high beam switches? been gone a long time now.