Comments on: 7 Features That May Be In Your Next New Car http://blog.motorists.org/7-features-that-may-be-in-your-next-new-car/ News For Drivers Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Fleet Admiral http://blog.motorists.org/7-features-that-may-be-in-your-next-new-car/comment-page-1/#comment-14072 Fleet Admiral Fri, 29 May 2009 15:13:32 +0000 http://www.motorists.org/blog/7-features-that-may-be-in-your-next-new-car/#comment-14072 A 9 yr old Audi already has 2 of these 6&7&part of 1, and more like nav, xenons, backup sensors(but without the fancy display of Audis and BMW showing precise distance meter for that indiv. sensor). But I don't like the air con being set in auto, so the smog filter function is a waste, and those carbon filters really don't do squat for stenches=overrated. And the solar sunroof as Audi had it long ago is also useless. Powering a tiny fan is pointless, and negates the sunroof feature because it's blocked by a panel. As for the rest of the features, they're for people who shouldn't be on the road in the first place, except for the valet key, which for Audi/BMW et al, limit the speed to 15mph. 80 what what?? You can still cause a lot of damage at 15 trusting some hoon garage attendant, let at 80. I think what they're doing with that distorted view is called the peephole fisheye tactic. Trying to view all edges of your periphery, but it just sucks. Audis lower the passenger mirror in reverse to view the curb, and then just add a euro blind spot mirror and call it a day. A 9 yr old Audi already has 2 of these 6&7&part of 1, and more like nav, xenons, backup sensors(but without the fancy display of Audis and BMW showing precise distance meter for that indiv. sensor). But I don’t like the air con being set in auto, so the smog filter function is a waste, and those carbon filters really don’t do squat for stenches=overrated. And the solar sunroof as Audi had it long ago is also useless. Powering a tiny fan is pointless, and negates the sunroof feature because it’s blocked by a panel.

As for the rest of the features, they’re for people who shouldn’t be on the road in the first place, except for the valet key, which for Audi/BMW et al, limit the speed to 15mph. 80 what what?? You can still cause a lot of damage at 15 trusting some hoon garage attendant, let at 80.

I think what they’re doing with that distorted view is called the peephole fisheye tactic. Trying to view all edges of your periphery, but it just sucks. Audis lower the passenger mirror in reverse to view the curb, and then just add a euro blind spot mirror and call it a day.

]]> By: JJ http://blog.motorists.org/7-features-that-may-be-in-your-next-new-car/comment-page-1/#comment-14058 JJ Thu, 28 May 2009 18:31:22 +0000 http://www.motorists.org/blog/7-features-that-may-be-in-your-next-new-car/#comment-14058 Why no laser jammers listed above? That would be far more useful than any of this stuff. Why no laser jammers listed above? That would be far more useful than any of this stuff.

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