Seriously??? Just give me the old tech...
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subwayrocket
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yep yep !
Ponsonby Britt OBE
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My wife was just asking if I remembered push-button operated door handles on cars. I choose to believe it was a rhetorical question, as she knows I am plenty old enough to remember them.
When I read stories like this I can't help but remember the untimely demise of NBC News reporter Jessica Savitch. For years afterward, my father refused to consider automatic locks and automatic windows on his cars. Unsafe, he said. He wasn't wrong.
When I read stories like this I can't help but remember the untimely demise of NBC News reporter Jessica Savitch. For years afterward, my father refused to consider automatic locks and automatic windows on his cars. Unsafe, he said. He wasn't wrong.
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JAXJeremy
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Oh yeah, like it's so hard to find. It's a fricken red painted lever right next to the door.
this...
worst part is he's lawyered up and is planning a lawsuit..
Why over complicate things? Is it really better or just to 'show off' tech.
I've seen people unable to open their hoods or even their gas doors...knew of lady that had a BMW 3 series for 2 years and didn't know her rear seats folded down!
So, KISS...because the general populace is too stupid and lazy to know about their vehicles or even read the owners manual...
And it seems that lever just opens the driver door...what if is fails? I assume it is cable operated which can fail. A normal driver door could fail as well, but I can get to another (passenger side) door (3 doors on 4runner) to try to get out.
I've seen people unable to open their hoods or even their gas doors...knew of lady that had a BMW 3 series for 2 years and didn't know her rear seats folded down!
So, KISS...because the general populace is too stupid and lazy to know about their vehicles or even read the owners manual...
And it seems that lever just opens the driver door...what if is fails? I assume it is cable operated which can fail. A normal driver door could fail as well, but I can get to another (passenger side) door (3 doors on 4runner) to try to get out.
Hepar
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Far more shocking these days if people don't sue.
gm350reratliff
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I do believe in the KISS method for most things. Then again, he had that manual lever right there! Didn't Jay Leno get stuck in one of those Caddys as well?
SUMMIT CRUISERS JR
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Simplicity is beauty. I got in a newer Lincoln the other day to move it and then t took me a decent while just to find the start button. Don’t even get me started on the stupid buttons to shift it.
ElectroBoy
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From what I recall, the car she was riding in landed in five feet of water, upside down, stuck in knee-deep mud. Was there also a finding of the automatic doors preventing escape?
Ponsonby Britt OBE
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I haven't read the report, but I believe there was talk of the electric windows shorting out when the car sank. I wasn't old enough to drive at the time, but I do recall my dad specifically nixing automatic windows on family car purchases from then on. He has them now, so sometime after I left the nest that rule was relaxed.
When did electric windows and doors go mass market? I believe electric windows were just being introduced in mainstream passenger vehicles around 1975. And I'm thinking electric door locks weren't common until about 80-82?
Ray Dunakin
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Do 4Runners have a manual release for the locks?
