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Arrath posted:It looks like every grandparent car I've ever seen. I can even smell it. I'm so glad you remember, because that looks similar to the interior of my grandmother's cherry red Cadillac that she had back in the mid-1980s (around the time I was very young). That photo brought back a lot of memories.
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Dick Trauma posted:Speaking of obsolete car tech do cars still come with vinyl seats? I can remember as a kid wearing shorts in the Summer and then having my flesh practically melt onto the rear seats of our lead sled. I was happy when cloth/mouse-fur became the basic option for car seats. My '68 Volvo had black vinyl seats. In Texas. In the summer. You could hear your legs sizzle when you got in the car.
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Our old Aries K had separate keys for the driver and passenger side door. Which is what happens after the repo man breaks the lock. 
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strangemusic posted:You totaled your car on the span of Lions Gate? Not in the causeway? Ouch. Yeah, someone slammed on their brakes to watch a suicide jumper and four of us rear ended each other. Good times.
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Dogan posted:Is this it? No, the thing I was thinking of was pure phone only. I tried going back to my old emails I still have on my Yahoo account from the late 90s to see if I had anything like a message about it, but I don't see one. However, that looks like how 90s futurists predicted things like in that ATT commercial. I almost can see Tom Selleck in my head going, "Imagine a world where you don't even have to turn on your computer... To see you've got email" Cut to a woman coming home to a future version of that thing flashing.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Whenever I rent a F-250 from the Home Depot they have pleather seats, so it must be an option somewhere. Vinyl usually comes standard in the base trim of pickup trucks because it's easier to get construction site / farm dirt out of than carpeting.
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I'm pretty sure vinyl seats are used where durability is an issue. Almost every taxi in my country has it; leather and cloth gets too worn by passengers.
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Pilsner posted:I'm pretty sure vinyl seats are used where durability is an issue. Almost every taxi in my country has it; leather and cloth gets too worn by passengers.
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Apr 3, 2014 09:19
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Captain Trips posted:Clarkson had an interesting take on those nubs on Top Gear a couple years back. You get out of the car, close the door, and it locks as you walk away. But then you think "Did that really work? Is it locked?" so you walk back to check, and the door unlocks as you walk up to it. That sounds like a nightmare for someone with OCD.
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Zopotantor posted:That sounds like a nightmare for someone with OCD. To be fair; so does everything.
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I do a lot of work on Arcade Sticks, as I've mentioned previously in this thread. And one thing I really like is that, for the most part, control interfaces have remained pretty standard in the meat and potatoes departments. It's nice that if someone brings me a stick they bought in 1989 for their NES that they are really attached to I can make it work on their PS3 with like 20-30 bucks of parts, work and solder. I really can't wait for home PCB fab equipment to come down in price. I've talked to some guys who live in Shenzhen, PRC and apparently there are a lot of guys who just have setups they've cobbled together in apartments and storage units from random old pieces of equipment they have bought cheap or salvaged. 3D Printing IMHO is kinda masturbatory and not terribly useful these days on a "have one in my home" scale but a PCB fab that could actually make really cool stuff would be straight up awesome.
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Zopotantor posted:That sounds like a nightmare for someone with OCD. Tell me about it. One of my friends is a bit OCD about his apartment door being locked. There is a ritual of running back to it and jiggling the handle and pushing on it to make sure it's actually locked. Several times. Leaving his apartment takes like 5 minutes after you leave the door. If he had this he would never get away from the car.
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Shugojin posted:Tell me about it. One of my friends is a bit OCD about his apartment door being locked. There is a ritual of running back to it and jiggling the handle and pushing on it to make sure it's actually locked. Several times. Leaving his apartment takes like 5 minutes after you leave the door. As someone who often does this, I can say that part of the issue is that once you start performing these dumb rituals out of habit you stop thinking about them at all...which means that you probably aren't paying attention closely enough to actually check that the door is locked.
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The reason for a separate key* is so that if you give your key to the valet (or some other service person), they can't get into the trunk or glovebox. (*as I was told when I asked about it when I was young)
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Speleothing posted:The reason for a separate key* is so that if you give your key to the valet (or some other service person), they can't get into the trunk or glovebox.
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Speleothing posted:The reason for a separate key* is so that if you give your key to the valet (or some other service person), they can't get into the trunk or glovebox. Yep, my Accord has a valet key that only works in the door or ignition. The master key can be used to lock the glovebox, remote release for the trunk/gas door, back seat.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:3D Printing IMHO is kinda masturbatory and not terribly useful these days on a "have one in my home" scale but a PCB fab that could actually make really cool stuff would be straight up awesome. I don't know about this one - I print magazines to go to the range, and I printed the prototype for a hand for my dad after he lost his in a Medical Problem. Limited utility for some people, sure, but hardly 'masturbatory'. I mean, unless you're being overly literal.
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Pilsner posted:You were told right, I've read car manuals where it says that the service key is specifically for that. No valets in Europe though, but the mechanic for example. Which is funny, because the mechanic will come back to ask you for the real one when he needs to access something under the trunk/behind the glovebox/wherever that key won't go. If you can't trust your mechanic to not steal your stuff, how can you trust him to do quality work on your car?
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eh, n/m
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I don't get the point of the key not opening the trunk, don't all cars have a release button/lever somewhere for it? Speaking of cars, do new cars still come with a cigarette lighter/ash tray? I can't imagine much of a need for that nowadays.
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Apr 5, 2014 01:47
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Coffee And Pie posted:I don't get the point of the key not opening the trunk, don't all cars have a release button/lever somewhere for it? Mine came with an ashtray cupholder insert that is in under the trunk floor along with the spare tire. They're not gonna go away entirely as a lot of people still smoke. At least in America, dunno how it is in other countries.
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Apr 5, 2014 01:52
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Coffee And Pie posted:I don't get the point of the key not opening the trunk, don't all cars have a release button/lever somewhere for it? There are several devices that can plug into it and utilize the 12 Volt, like coolers or fans. It is a rather odd installation thinking back on it, though. Very 50's, gotta be able to light a cig at any time! After a 10 second wait.
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Apr 5, 2014 01:54
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Cigarette lighter outlets are not going away, ever, because there are far too many devices that use it.
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Apr 5, 2014 01:56
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If you don't have a cigarette lighter, where else are you going to plug in your cellphone charger? And don't forget your cigarette lighter splitter so you can plug in both your (incompatible) cellphone chargers at once!
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Apr 5, 2014 01:58
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My work car had 3, one in the boot/trunk (guessing for 12v fridge) and two up front. Although they are only the outlet and don't have the push lighter. Just a door over them stating '12 Volt'. My new personal car has an outlet inside the armrest cubby, and is meant for GPS or mobile phone chargers as there are a number of cabling channels leading out of the flip up arm rest.
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Have built-in USB ports become a standard in new cars, yet? It seems like it'd be a thing they could put a couple in a few spots so everyone could keep their stuff charged up no matter where they were in the car.
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mng posted:There are several devices that can plug into it and utilize the 12 Volt, like coolers or fans. It is a rather odd installation thinking back on it, though. Very 50's, gotta be able to light a cig at any time! After a 10 second wait. Some early computer consoles had built‐in cigarette lighters, like this SAGE unit: 
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Shugojin posted:Mine came with an ashtray cupholder insert that is in under the trunk floor along with the spare tire. They're not gonna go away entirely as a lot of people still smoke. My parents had an 80s Cadillac with lighters and ashtrays in each back-seat door. My Studebaker has only one lighter, but there's an ashtray under the radio, one in the center console, and one on the backside of each front seat. drat.
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I think with most modern cars you have to specify you want a smoker's package in order to get the actual lighter and not just a cap that goes over the port. I'd love for USB chargers to become a thing spread out around the car to charge everybody's poo poo. The release for the trunk is a fairly modern thing, I know on my first car I had a separate key for the doors/ignition and one for the trunk and it didn't have an indoor release (85 Aries).
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mints posted:The release for the trunk is a fairly modern thing, I know on my first car I had a separate key for the doors/ignition and one for the trunk and it didn't have an indoor release (85 Aries). The 1983 Holden Camira (which I'll add is fairly far up the running for worst car ever) my parents had when I was young had an electrically operated trunk release located in the glove compartment - pretty much the most inconvenient place imaginable. Japanese cars have had them for longer though, even the early Ford Laser that my mum had had a normal cable operated release by the drivers seat.
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I'm reminded now of a Japanese car that was designed with a spot in it for a compact folding 49cc scooter called the Motocompo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lDauqtpzc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X3vPNZZrCo JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 04:12 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:My parents had an 80s Cadillac with lighters and ashtrays in each back-seat door. My 2008 bmw has two cigarette lighters and an ashtray for every single passenger. I think two for each backseat smoker actually. Ashtrays freaking everywhere. Strangely it also has two or three twelve volt outlets that are separate and distinct from the lighters. I still take one of the lighters out to plug in my phone charger.
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I've got an ashtray and two lighter ports in my '06 Infiniti. I also don't have a way to use a key to open my trunk. It's opened by either a small button on the trunk its self, or a rocker switch by the driver's left leg. Of course the rocker switch is right next to the button to disable traction control, and they're both "reach down and feel" distance, making it a bit of a stupid design idea... But that's more of an AI discussion than anything 
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Coffee And Pie posted:I don't get the point of the key not opening the trunk, don't all cars have a release button/lever somewhere for it? Not that it really helps, given that the whole damned car can be stolen in fifteen seconds by any idiot with a shaved key.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I'm reminded now of a Japanese car that was designed with a spot in it for a compact folding 49cc scooter called the Motocompo. This would give Xzibit an aneurysm.
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I cannot believe I completely forgot about some of the obsolete tech in one of my old cars The Toyota Sera wanted to be the beacon of the future.  (Not my old one) It's name was devived from the french word for 'Will Be' It had it all: > Gullwing doors > A really fancy Stereo: quote:Super Live Surround Sound (SLSS) > Air Filtration/Fragrance Systems > AAAAAAAND the option for a fax machine that was in the glove compartment (I don't have photos of this anymore) There were soo many random things about this car that as a teen I was overwhelmed and MUST HAVE (and must ruin modifying it more).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1rsuroTf_Q&t=1m47s fix the cigarette lighter
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If you have Google Earth installed, enable 3D buildings and zoom in on the East 95th Bridge in Chicago.
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Collateral Damage posted:If you have Google Earth installed, enable 3D buildings and zoom in on the East 95th Bridge in Chicago. Why?
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Cal Sag" (locals will get that).
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