Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:27:38 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:47:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:47:15 -0500, Roy Smith
wrote:
You've apparently never driven a car with three on the tree and had
the parking brake next to the clutch... or a floor mounted dimmer
switch. Guess I'm showing my age...


My car, a 2018 Camry, has the parking brake on the floor (next to
where the clutch would be if it had one) and has no dimmer switch (the
brights go on and off as needed automatically).

Are you sure it doesn't have a dimmer switch? I recently test drove a
2018 Highlander, equipped with Toyota's "Safety Sense" feature, and the
automatic behaviors (both Auto and Safety Sense) were *in addition to*
the usual manual capabilities.


The only thing I don't like about the car is it that it has so many
choices and buttons to press that I can never remember all of them.

Yup. This is the problem of ever advancing technology. Just like those new
watches (and a plethora of other gadgets) that have so many options and so
few buttons that you need to have a manual with you to even operate or
modify it. This is what would be known as a dereliction in design, courtesy
of some weak Industrial Engineering methodology in its design. And not
looking at what works best for the customer, but what is simply most "cost
effective". Better yet, just have one button to save costs, and 100 options
to select from, by using that button! I finally got fed up with the auto
locking car doors and disabled it, after I got locked out one day. (But it
"thought" it was doing me a favor and "protecting me" when the door blew
closed after I briefly stepped out)