I have sooooo many small lights I cannot use because of this.
Mine unlocks the front on one click but needs a quick series (not than 2) clicks to unlock the back.
I now have an image of an action movie. The driver gets in the car and is safe while the passenger dies in a hail of bullets frantically pulling on a locked door handle.
That was kind of a common thing in late aughts - early '10s vehicles, when push button start was a brand new thing. They hadn’t quite figured out proximity keys yet, but inserting your key fob into a special slot felt like a new wizz-bang feature at the time compared to an old fashioned key.
I have a new house, lots of ceiling fans. All of them are on remote controls. The fan is also the main ceiling light for the room.
The remote has about a dozen buttons on it “Hey Bob what other feature can we cram into this”
So, to turn on the light, you use one of the buttons on the remote, to see which button you need light. It’s a bit of a catch 22.
Every car I’ve driven (save for a crappy Volvo V40) has a little arrow symbol on the gas meter display, telling which side the filler is. No chance of getting it wrong, even in an unfamiliar car.
Spice and herb jars from some supermarkets in the UK.
Each supermarket chain seems to have its own design, which I suppose is fine, but given that in pretty much any recipe that calls for any kind of dry herb or spice, that quantity is given in teaspoons, it should be possible to insert a teaspoon into the neck of the jar to retrieve the contents.
And yet, apparently not; some of them are more like bottles and are too narrow to admit either a teaspoon measure, or an actual teaspoon.
I asked ChatGPT:
No idea if it’s correct or not but it may be worth trying.
There are measuring spoons made specifically to fit into spice jars - my set however, for some reason is double-ended. One set is longer and narrower and fits into spice jars - which is great. But don’t see the purpose for the wider, rounder end that doesn’t.
Not if you think to peer at the arrow, which IME is inconspicous.
If I’m thinking about which side the gas cap’s on, then yes the arrow is useful. But if I’m just thinking about getting gas and am used to always pulling in to one side of the pump, that arrow’s not going to jump out at me.
I hope that’s not accurate. Why on earth would you want to unlock the fuel filler lid every time you want to get into the car, or put something in or get something out of it? It would be an annoying nuisance to have to close it again all those times you weren’t getting gas.
But of course ChatGPT doesn’t know that; so it’s probably wrong.
In these cases it does not mean “open” it means just “unlock” — these are press-to-open filler doors that lock when the car is locked as a fuel theft obstacle. The door is unlocked but still closed when the car’s off and the driver door unlocked as it’s assumed that will be the case if the driver’s pulling over for self-serve, you still have to press-to-open.
The one thing that needs to be made sure here is that in case of system failure the door is engineered to fail-safe to “unlocked”.
Ah. Every car I’ve ever driven since gas caps started having inside latches has popped the outer filler lid open when unlatched. But then, I think they’ve all been mechanical latches.
Thanks for info.
It looks like it’s directly from the manual.
It points to the directions.
Thing is, it’s simple to just use jars that will accommodate a standard teaspoon - a couple of the supermarkets seems to have understood this:
I replaced the lighted ceiling fan in our living room a few years ago. The old one was controlled with wall switches, the new one had a remote. We don’t even use the remote any more except to change the fan speed. Everything is left “on” and we just continue to use the wall switches to actually turn the light and fan on and off.
The one in the bedroom has no wall switch. Just the remote. The one in the living room has a wall switch and a remote.
For the ceiling fan with no switch but only a remote control, is there at least a mount you can hang on the wall to dock the control? Because it seems stupid to be dependent on a remote control that’s easily misplaced.
I have the same setup, and, yes, there is a wall-mount for the remote. And that’s where it stays when not in use.
That’s good, at least.
Yeah, there is, but you can slip it out of the mount and place it anywhere. It’s sort of necessary to slip it out so you can see the buttons in some light.
I’ve noticed some odd things about switch/outlet placement, in a “Why didn’t they put a three way switch on this?”
3 1/2 baths and not a GFI in one of them. Surprised that passed code.
No big deals really, and we love the house.
I had ceiling fans installed in my house before I moved in. The ones in the bedrooms have hanging chains to turn the fan and lights on and off, as well as being wired to wall switches. The one in the office just has the chain switches and is not wired to a wall switch. The living room has an arched ceiling so while it has hanging chain switches they’re too high up to be useful. There’s a remote to control it, which I keep next to the sofa so it’s handy. I could hang it on the wall, but then I couldn’t use it.
Drove my last car for 7 years, and the gas cap was on the passenger side. 5 months into the new car, and I still pull in with gas pump on that side of the car on autopilot sometimes, even though I know the new one has the gas cap on the driver’s side. Eventually, it will become autopilot too, but for now, it’s annoying.