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Why not just open a door?
Open the windows, drive off and close the windows when all the superheated air has gone. And if you've got remote opening (my car doesn't, wish it did...) that's even better.
Until you’re alone in the car and driving along on a lovely warm day and decide to open all the windows.
That's a good point.
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I can’t see any advantages to electric windows.
Lotus fitted electric windows to the Europa in the 60s. They pretty much stripped everything else to basics but the electric windows were there because there wasn't enough space to move your arm enough operate a wind up or sliding window.
Lotus fitted electric windows to the Europa in the 60s. They pretty much stripped everything else to basics but the electric windows were there because there wasn’t enough space to move your arm enough operate a wind up or sliding window.
They should have just fitted fixed windows in that case as the electric windows would have stopped working within a few minutes. And it would have been lighter, what was Chapman thinking.
powered seats
Mynext car will definitely have mempry powered seats. Ever shared a car with someone seven inches shorter with an upright driving position?
And the blindspot warning lights in the mirrors. Thought they were a gimmick.
As for the Audi, I'd much prefer some form of optics that did not need stalks at all. But th eloss of perception is real, as is the ability to move one's head forward slightly - see warning lights.
I had no idea this was a thing.
Why not just open a door?
If I press and hold the 'door open' button on the remote, all the windows wind down for as long as I hold the button (and ditto closing with the close button).
I could just open a door, it's part of my routine before driving off after all, but the windows shift more air faster and I can trigger it from across the car park rather than standing around with the door open and the car at Gas Mark 6.
if you’ve got remote opening (my car doesn’t, wish it did…)
This isn't a particularly new thing, my old Vauxhall Cavalier did it and that was from 1991. I imagine more modern cars do this than don't, it's just not very well publicised. Have you tried it?
I imagine more modern cars do this than don’t, it’s just not very well publicised.
You'd imagine. You'd probably be wrong.
I 've had a few that did and many more that should but don't.
Which is a pity coz it is quite handy.
I can’t see a stick lasting long.
It could be rubber mounted, that would help.
Or they could put it on the rear quarter pillar of the car. That would help a bit more I think. You could have a 180 view around the back of the car split into three screens - one bigger one where the rear view mirror would be, and two either side.
I wonder if you could add some sort of optics in front to alter the focus point? Might not be possible given the dimensions.
I can’t see any advantages to electric windows.
Or seats.
Seriously? Ever tried leaning across a car to manually wind down a window in order to ask someone something, or try to adjust a mirror that isn’t electrically adjustable?
Or even just winding a window down on your own side to get a ticket from a car park machine? Believe me, having driven cars where everything was manually adjustable, driving cars where windows, seats and mirrors can be easily adjustable without having to move from your preferred driving position is something you never want to go back to.
I guess if someone is driving a car with no electric adjustments of any kind, they get someone to adjust the mirrors and then hope they never get knocked out of alignment, and set the seats once for themselves, hoping nobody else will want to drive it, and never park where it’s necessary to wind the window down to get a ticket, but people often share cars, and have a need to adjust seating position, mirrors, etc.
I can drive thirty-odd cars a day, maybe more, of many different makes and models, being able to quickly make fine adjustments from my ideal driving position is a godsend.
Plus cameras always get covered in dirt and eventually break.
Mirrors on the other hand, famously robust and permanently immune to dirt 👍
I've always subscribed to this view ..
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