I’ve never seen that, but my last few cars had manual folding side-view mirrors. I can grab them and pop them in.
Quite common in Japan.
Our Mazda CX-50 does this, but only when you lock the car.
Common bordering on universal in German cars for the North American market.
I can’t speak to other country’s products sold here.
While you’re holding out, I gave up about 2010. That was the last time that I used the rent a car club (I forget the names). I sat in that car for 15 minutes, trying to figure out how to turn it off. Turned out you just push the button on the dashboard! That did it for me. Since then, everything on cars is pushbutton. I used to be embarrassed by my ignorance regarding stick shift, having learned to drive on an automatic, but now? Well, let’s just say, I no longer know how to operate a car. Love the bum warmers though!
LOL I totally understand. I will probably have to have some young people or knowledgeable elders on stand by when I am out and about in a new car. Hopefully that will not be too soon.
I have enough other life events/issues to adjust to and make peace with.
My Wifes Subi is very good too.
Whomever designed the GUID for my 2019 4Runner, should be forced to use it. But that would be cruel and unusual.
Yeah pretty simple concept to understand. We use our 3 row PILOT similarly.
Recently, my 91 year old father wanted to replace his 13 year old car. So he went to the same dealership he had bought it from, and asked to see the same model car.
Then he refused to buy it.
He told the salesman “I came here to buy a car, but you’re showing me a computer.”
I believe camera tickets, of whatever sort, cannot in fact be passed on to your insurance since the camera operators cannot prove who was in fact driving. Only in 3 states.
One of which states is California, where I live.
I sometimes forget that there are also speeding cameras, as well as red light cameras. These have recently been introduced in my city, San Francisco, and the city is proclaiming the success at reducing speeding by 70% (I don’t believe they have a statistically reliable method of determining that, it may just be 70% fewer speeding tickets, which could correspond to a change in policy for officers not to write them now that we have the cameras). The speeding cameras have a looseness factor of 11 mph, so in a 30 mph zone you have to go 41 to trigger the camera.
I’ll tell you this much, I got one ~$60 camera speeding ticket on Staten Island, and I will never forget where I got it and will never drive +11mph on that road again.
That’s the beauty of camera tickets, they’re automatic, you have essentially a 100% chance of getting ticketed if you speed in front of them. Like the old joke where the cop says “Do you catch every fish?”, the answer is yes, they DO catch every fish, the only defense is to not be a fish.
That’s why I don’t quite believe claims of reducing speeding by 70% or whatever - everyone always says they won’t speed on that section of road again. I’ve never heard anyone say they stopped speeding altogether because of a camera ticket. In fact, I’ve seen many lists of the locations of speeding/red light cameras , which suggests that people only intend to change their behavior where the cameras are.
They might, nonetheless, significantly decrease speeding-related accidents. I can imagine that some jurisdictions put those cameras in the places where speeding matters the most, where there are a lot of pedestrians and/or poor visibility or some other speed-related hazard.
I mean, some places just use them to generate revenue, but i suspect others use them in places where too-fast cars have actually caused problems.
In a place like SF you also have a large population of tourists driving who’d be unaware of both the limits and the location of the cameras.
They might not be deterred unless this becomes common knowledge handed out by rental car agencies. But they’d sure soak up a lot of the tickets compared to the locals in the know.
10 years ago my wife got a ticket in the mail for speeding in a school zone. She said she did not see any flashing red lights. I called the police department to see what the operating hours were for that school zone’s lights. The person I talked to said I had to inquire by mail and they would respond within 14 days. They took the whole 14 days and their response was. “We don’t set the hours, each school does.” You would think they could have just said that.
After many tries I got through to the principal of that school and they said the lights were on a timer from 7:00am to 9:00 am. The time stamp on the ticket was 9:00.45. Forty five seconds after the lights had turned off. By now the response period to contest the ticket was almost up so we had to go to the arbitrator with the ticket. At first he just scoffed at our “evidence”. But I told him that if the offense had occurred during the restricted time they certainly would have held it against her and that their speed camera was illegally ticking drivers after 9:00. He dismissed it.
Interesting coincidence. I haven’t hear about or thought about traffic enforcement cameras for years until they came up in this thread a couple days ago. Then earlier today I got this text from my city’s mass notification system:
Beginning TODAY Thursday, Oct. 16, speeding infractions in school zones where cameras are present will result in citations. Learn more: [url redacted].
Hmm. I didn’t see that coming. I wasn’t aware the city had any cameras or similar equipment set up anywhere, nor do I remember reading anything earlier about this being decided upon.
I was also under the evidently mistaken impression that FL had outlawed all forms of automated traffic enforcement some years ago as a sop to freedumb. I know for sure that at one point a bunch of red light cameras had to be ripped out after the state law changed.
Upon further review:
Turns out in 2023 the state legislature authorized speed cams in school zones and only in school zones. Citations are no-points, $100, and no additional fees. You need to exceed the school zone limit (15mph) by 10 mph to trigger a citation. So 24.99 is the new limit ;).
My Bronco will tell me to get a cup of coffee if I change lanes without signaling, which I will occasionally due if there are no other cars around.
Hmm. My car, like many, will buzz the steering wheel, and optionally gently tug back towards the center of your lane if you have the temerity to not warn your car you want to change lanes by using your turn signal. Kind of unnerving the first few times it does that.
Like you, my use of signals depends on whether there’s somebody near enough to care. Modulo how much I’m driving deliberately versus on mental autopilot.
This is an example of nudging, just like auto-enrolling all new employees in the 401k. Make opting out of turn signals or 401ks just slightly hard, and most folks will grumble slightly and learn to go along docilely. I suppose that’s a good thing overall.
I would like to urge everyone who gets behind a wheel to signal as if someone is watching. Every time.
Failure to signal is such a gross lack of consideration (for pedestrians as well as other drivers, in all directions, seen and unseen), that it just makes sense to do it every time, no matter what.