My personal problem is that the pedals are too close, the seat too high, and the steering wheel too far away.
Right, if you have a spacer behind the steering wheel, that brings it closer. Unless, of course, it doesn't have tilt. My latest car has a telescoping column, so it's not a problem, I just adjusted the wheel back towards me.
Right. The good old "the illegals just can't stop themselves from jumping the border!" argument.
I think it's the "The illegals are fleeing from a situation which we created with our War On Some Drugs For Profit" argument.
The trunklines didn't go up for crash safety. They went up for aerodynamics.
Who told you that? That's hilarious. Every automaker has complained about having to raise that line to deal with legal requirements, not to make them better pass crash tests, but because they've been legally required to raise the rear impact zone. Raising the rear increases drag, on its own; when you kick it up over the rest of the lines of the car, you're ultimately just increasing area. Sometimes it's an intentional part of a design meant to increase downforce, but that's exceptionally rare.
Well, you can get a spacer for some vehicles, it can be a challenge to retain ABS but it is possible.
I meant SRS, I don't know how ABS came out
Well, you can get a spacer for some vehicles, it can be a challenge to retain ABS but it is possible.
Go drive a Corvette. Specifically a 1957. The mirror is on the dash. I can't think of any others like that, but at least one car came that way.
It was on the dash in my 1960 Dodge Dart, too. That's over now because rear impact safety regulations have raised the trunk line.
The recline isn't safe, when you can't get a good grip on the wheel at all positions. But I see people over-recline all the time.
If you can't see over the wheel and under the roof while keeping your hands at 10 and 2 and your arms bent 90 degrees and also operate the pedals then you're in the wrong seating position at minimum, and possibly the wrong car.
Sadly, many of us simply don't fit properly in many cars. I have a freakishly long torso, so I just don't get in Hondas, Toyotas, or budget VWs. Mercedes and Nissan are OK, Subaru is better. I got an Audi that fits me pretty well, but it's a big one.
that's why when I'm a pedestrian I carry a "deterrent".
What, a cardboard cutout of a cow, or a clown on fire, or something else they're more likely to notice than you?
"correctly" is where you can just barely see a tiny bit of the car in the mirror, because when you have them set like that, you get a clean panoramic view looking from left to center to right and back again and they all make sense. and the "correct" way to merge is to turn your head to check your blind spot.
Here's a better idea - make the A-pillar (as viewed from the drivers position) no wider than the distance between the center of your eyes. This prevents the pillar from blocking your vision, and no electronics are needed.
You can't reasonably do that, the A-pillars have grown to meet the engineering demands of modern rollover safety standards. Everyone has complained about it, but they are still horribly big compared to the cars of the 80s. Eventually they'll figure it out, but right now it's still a problem.
I concur. The idea I've had is that we'll eventually get to a wearable visor that projects 360 degrees in 180 degrees, and as you move your head, changes the view. The middle 90 or 120 degrees will be real-space, and the remainder will be compressed to fill the visual field and give full 360 view.
I don't think that will happen for anyone other than perhaps fighter pilots, who actually wear visors. Maybe race drivers, they would certainly benefit. The rest of us would benefit more from the the driverless cars of the future you predict, anyway. I don't want to have to wear some shit on my head when I drive, sometimes I get headaches.
Eventually, when we get contact lenses with camera and display elements in them then that will be fairly compelling... for those of us who can tolerate contacts. I'm not even sure whether that includes me, I've never tried.
Due to its size and economic might, I expect that Chinese will become more influential in the future, and it will slowly become more significant outside of Asia.
I predict that any slow change in Chinese uptake will also be small, because the language is difficult to learn and the culture is impenetrable.
most of us don't care so much about port 80.
Who is "us"? Most internet users care very much about port 80, not that they even know it. Most of them do pretty much everything through their browser.
(I wonder if you are done with your childish laughing attack?)
I started having one when you suggested that most of us don't care about port 80. Welcome to slashdot, you must never have been here.
Soon it will be. With the inevitable demise of the technological society the death of science will be unavoidable.
The death of science is the death of humanity, not just technological society. Figuring things out will still be a thing, and there will still be a best way to do that which will be discovered once again even if lost.
They don't give one tenth of one shit about the grieving process. Some of them may have told themselves that to make themselves more comfortable sleeping on a gigantic bed stuffed with money. The mortuaries have managed to get themselves written into law and they're fighting tooth and nail to remain there. But ultimately, less of us believe in an afterlife than ever before, and thus we don't need a corpse present at a memorial. When I'm done, I'd like to have a tree stuck up my arse and be stuck head-down into the soil, thanks. Anyone who would like to remember me can do so in a drinking establishment.
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