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After seeing the form-factor of that jewel, GM could have saved a pretty penny by putting the circuitry in a standard cylindrical electrical junction box. Probably could have saved enough for ACC.>
Interesting!
I kind of like the pedestrian sound. Plus, anything of this nature grudgingly added by automakers instead of some other chrome gewgaw* probably has an overwhelmingly statistical case to squeeze past the "freedumb" argument**.
* Quick poll: how many would've preferred retention of illuminated vanity mirrors, rather than a useless dashboard mood light? Which is more practical, on any scale?
** "Consumers don't want to pay" or "it'll cost too much" don't wash, given that a lot of money is spent on pointless tinsel. So it must be freedumb we're preserving, right? The freedumb to ignore reality, and the same argument that goes along the lines of "if it doesn't work every time and it annoys me, it's bad."
I kind of like the pedestrian sound. Plus, anything of this nature grudgingly added by automakers instead of some other chrome gewgaw* probably has an overwhelmingly statistical case to squeeze past the "freedumb" argument**.
* Quick poll: how many would've preferred retention of illuminated vanity mirrors, rather than a useless dashboard mood light? Which is more practical, on any scale?
** "Consumers don't want to pay" or "it'll cost too much" don't wash, given that a lot of money is spent on pointless tinsel. So it must be freedumb we're preserving, right? The freedumb to ignore reality, and the same argument that goes along the lines of "if it doesn't work every time and it annoys me, it's bad."
I'd pay to have the blue dashboard mood light removed! I assume you are talking about the thin blue light that spans the width of the dashboard. Other than just fully dimming the knob to the left of the headlight control, is there an easy way to just disable it? Maybe just pull a fuse or a wire somewhere? I've had the car just over 24 hours and that is really annoying. Mostly because it annoys my wife, who isn't quite sold on all the benefits of the car.
I believe the Volt Premier extends the disco floor all the way to the rear of the front doors, so we should count ourselves lucky.
Note that the Volt w/the Total Travolta Treatment no longer sports turn indicators on the mirrors. "Oh, they're too expensive, customers won't want to pay for those..."
I rest my case.
Note that the Volt w/the Total Travolta Treatment no longer sports turn indicators on the mirrors. "Oh, they're too expensive, customers won't want to pay for those..."
I rest my case.
Is it possible we are married to the same woman???
We've had ours for about a week now and the Bolt hasn't grown on her the way I was hoping... The blue light is definitely not helping the "mood"...
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Is it possible we are married to the same woman???
We've had ours for about a week now and the Bolt hasn't grown on her the way I was hoping... The blue light is definitely not helping the "mood"...
I don't think it is the blue light, but after a year and a half, my wife still despises my Bolt.
Is it possible we are married to the same woman???
We've had ours for about a week now and the Bolt hasn't grown on her the way I was hoping... The blue light is definitely not helping the "mood"...
You need to be looking out for propaganda points.I don't think it is the blue light, but after a year and a half, my wife still despises my Bolt.
"Sure is raining hard-- isn't it nice we never have stand in the blowing rain, pumping gas?"
"Golly, it's freezing out-- who would choose to pump 20 gallons of gas on a day like this?"
"Isn't it nice that we're size 8 people in a size 8 car, instead of blundering about in a size16 billowing around us like a muumuu?"
Etc.
"Golly, it's freezing out-- who would choose to pump 20 gallons of gas on a day like this?"
"Isn't it nice that we're size 8 people in a size 8 car, instead of blundering about in a size16 billowing around us like a muumuu?"
Etc.
Or go low and say how nice it is that this car cannot suffocate you or anybody else, if left on in the garage.
And do not mention the missing vanity mirror lighting, if your visors were downgraded from Volt.
Ha Ha, my wife asked why, if a Toyota Sienna, from 1999 has them, this new fangled Sparkomatic, costing nearly twice as much, doesn’t.
At least she doesn’t hate it, though it’s hard to get them to peruse the manual in order to resolve simple questions.
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Don't you know husbands are the original "Hey Google." "Hey honey, what's this button for?"
I had to disable the lighted mirrors in my 2002 Sienna, as they broke and would not longer turn themselves off. One morning my battery was dead because the lighted mirror stayed lit for who knows how long. One less thing to break.
Ya know, I have to say that having read the threads here and to paraphrase: "we have met the RTFM clueless and they is substantially us."
I'm waiting for somebody to tell me I'm an idiot and point out how I've missed the "B" trip odometer. I just made a bold assertion on that and am waiting (hopefully) for blowback.
See, that's exactly how a little choice can make a mandatory thing more palatable. Another low-hanging win unsnatched by slightly overly focused engineers. There are so many ways to make necessary no-choice scenarios palatable, along the lines of The Onion's "deploy and win" airbag lottery.
Here in Seattle it's an amazing thing to see people driving all the way around Lake Washington due to recently instituted tolls on one of the bridges. As with so many cognitive short-circuits we're all subject to it's really quite a stupid choice, by the numbers. Drivers do this because they don't like having a "decision" forced on them, made to pay.
But guess what? The toll system works by reading license plates. Now imagine that for some tiny fraction of drivers, a signboard at the end of the bridge popped up a license number and "you won a free trip!" I guarantee that adoption of the tolled bridge would be smoother, less resented. The only possible downside would be the bridge becoming packed with compulsive gamblers.
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Forgive me for the tangent, but when we got a toll bridge going into Vancouver, BC there was a $20 credit given for signing up for automatic on-line payments. I thought the credit stayed with the vehicle so when I used it up on my Sprint I was going to switch vehicles and drive our Golf to work...then I did the math and realized that the bridge toll was $3.25 (I think) and it would cost about an extra $5 in fuel to drive the Golf instead of the Sprint. That perspective made the toll not seem like such a big deal.
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