Cheap Features That Should be Standard in Every Car
As I took inventory today of all the clocks that I need to adjust for daylight savings time i started wondering why is it car manufacturers can’t make a few simple changes that would make life a little easier and safer for drivers…
We had a car that would turn your headlights off when you turned the car off unlike the two cars we have now that will leave the parking lights on when you turn the ignition off. But with all the states that have laws that require you to have your headlights on when you have your wipers on, why don’t manufacturers make it so that your headlights turn on automatically when you turn on your wipers?
The other feature is related to all of the clock setting I had to do today. Why don’t manufacturers add a wireless time synchronization feature on the clocks they put in their cars? You can buy an alarm clock that does this for less than $30, how hard could it be to incorporate this into a car? Instead of having to repeatedly mash buttons to set the time there could be 1 button to turn daylight savings on or off and one to select your time zone… Quick, easy, and cheap.
Cars that can park themselves or being able to control your stereo by talking to it is great, but those features are really expensive and can be very complex. On the other hand these two features have got to be pretty cheap and simple to incorporate into new cars…
on 09 Mar 2008 at 12:51 pm # db
Um, on the MINI, didn’t you only have to press 1 button 1 time? I know that is terribly inconvenient, but suck it up.
You can complain at the end of summer when you have to go all the way ’round to get them an hour earlier. just recycle this post, I won’t tell
on 11 Mar 2008 at 10:42 am # michael
For those of us who have MINIs that don’t have the clock in the overhead it’s actually more than just one button press.
It’s actually now a button press and hold plus a button press , than another button press just to get in to the clock setting mode.
Still how hard can it be to add such a small feature like that in to a car?