Most useless features on a car.

[SparkyJJO]

cupholders in front on the radio, and only takes a small cup, stupid

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: SupaDupaCheez
The turnsignals on the Side Mirrors on SUV's (or any other car for that matter).

I love it when the person in front of me has this feature, especially if they are towing something.

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: SupaDupaCheez
Cassette players (who the hell uses those things anymore)

cheap people with mp3 players

All the cool people hook their $50 mp3 player to their radio through a tape deck converter

$50? You got ripped off. Mine was $29.99. Worked great until the tape deck broke. Then I was out $29.99 on top of the $400 spent on a real in-dash MP3 player and 4 new speakers. All for the tunes.

Useless features? The thing that honks the horn when you lock the doors. Even more useless? The thing that honks the horn twice when you [/i]unlock[/i] the doors. (Do we really need more noise pollution in the city?)

 

[Tommouse]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Vic
Cruise control. Should be outlawed IMO.

You put in 12 solid hours through the Dakotas and Montana and tell me it should be outlawed.

ZV

I drive 500 miles to school in a single trip. Anyone who has traveled though upstate NY knows how boring the thruway is, and I take this for 3.5~4 hours out of my trip. I would love CC in my car. My leg starts to hurt by then end of my trip. I would never buy a car without CC.

Originally posted by: Jasiek

Originally posted by: davew0670
there is nothing useless on a jeep

Yep, my friend got the gold edition and all the features on it are pretty useful


The most useless thing on any car is the cassette player, why do we have to cater to those old people who still buy tapes, we don't.

I gheto-tape my iPod. Works well, and keeps me from having to install an aftermarket head unit.

Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Power steering?!? - When I broke my (primary) arm, the power steering happened to go out; I had to get handicapped parking due to difficulty in getting around campus with one arm and 50pds of book. It is almost impossible to safely steer a car in that condition with the power steering broken.

I don't have power steering in my car and it is Horrible (with a capital H). Makes me feel like a grandpa when I get out of the gym on some days, I just can't crank the wheel around, and you can forget palming the wheel.
Although if you do have powersteering and you lose the power portion it is much worse.


If you havn't guessed my car is pretty basic ... no ABS, no power anything, I can't wait to get a new (to me) car.

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
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I don't have power steering in my car and it is Horrible (with a capital H). Makes me feel like a grandpa when I get out of the gym on some days, I just can't crank the wheel around, and you can forget palming the wheel.
Although if you do have powersteering and you lose the power portion it is much worse.
...

I can't believe they still have cars w/o power steering. My in-laws got a Saturn a year or so ago w/o power steering. I was like WTF? How can you have a car built in the 00's w/o power steering? That's like not having an engine, IMO.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel
If you don't have the skill to manuver your vehicle without electronic aids you should not be driving it imo.

QFT!!

Some of us have the skill to drive without electronic aids but enjoy using them when they're available.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
I think my power mirrors are rather pointless. Its not like I have to constantly adjust them.

If you share the car with a significant other, it's pretty handy.

 

[sindows]

Automatic Wipers
Seats that pull themselves back when you open the door
the "alarm" button on your keyfob
Electronic Stability Control Systems under track conditions
the buttons on the radio that I never use(I have a feeling that I'd miss them if they were gone though)
rear seat map pockets in cars with navigation systems

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Vic
Cruise control. Should be outlawed IMO.

Why?

Inflexibility of speed among individual drivers is a major cause of congestion and accidents. Think prick in the left passing lane doing exactly 3 mph over the limit and won't move or speed up for anyone. Why? His cruise control is on, even in the city, and he don't turn it off for no one. That's bad driving period. The safest driving is continually adjusting to the flow of traffic.

There are many new cruise control systems that use sensors to speed up/slow down with the traffic. You can even set a "range" of speeds instead of just a regular one.

<----- has only used cruise control a few times in his life

Yeah, I've read about that, pretty cool.

I prefer to have control of my life, but I think it is silly you'd want it to be banned. You believe in personal rights and are a Libertarian to a large extent, so don't act as if wanting to ban this isn't crap.

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Finality
Seat warmers for me. I live in a desert climate, I asked the salesman what about cool ventilation for the seats and he was like hrmmmmm?

That's his responce because the only car for many years to have cooled seats was mercedes benz. I doubt he wanted you to leave the lot to head over a buy a cometitiors car, thats why his only reaction was "Hmmmmm....".

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: SupaDupaCheez
Cassette players (who the hell uses those things anymore)

cheap people with mp3 players

All the cool people hook their $50 mp3 player to their radio through a tape deck converter

$50? You got ripped off. Mine was $29.99. Worked great until the tape deck broke. Then I was out $29.99 on top of the $400 spent on a real in-dash MP3 player and 4 new speakers. All for the tunes.

Useless features? The thing that honks the horn when you lock the doors. Even more useless? The thing that honks the horn twice when you [/i]unlock[/i] the doors. (Do we really need more noise pollution in the city?)

You both were riped off, they cost less than $2 to make and sell for $4. The average retail price is around $10 and Radio shack sells them for around $15-20 (i think).
http://shop.drugssearch.us/index.php?id=47847
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5862381573

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Aquila76

Originally posted by: Tommouse
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I don't have power steering in my car and it is Horrible (with a capital H). Makes me feel like a grandpa when I get out of the gym on some days, I just can't crank the wheel around, and you can forget palming the wheel.
Although if you do have powersteering and you lose the power portion it is much worse.
...

I can't believe they still have cars w/o power steering. My in-laws got a Saturn a year or so ago w/o power steering. I was like WTF? How can you have a car built in the 00's w/o power steering? That's like not having an engine, IMO.

You drain the fluid from the pump thats how. My relitive has a 21st century Saturn and Power Steering came standard.

 

[SophalotJack]

The most useless feature I would have to say are the small cupholders in most cars.

I mean farking really.... who drinks canned soda? They were obsolete before cars were even made.

Why don't they just make them a little wider and deeper to fit bottled soda?

 

[funboy6942]

Rev limiter
Power windows
Computer
Cruise control
Air Bags
Anti lock brakes
Cat converter
LCD dash pannel
Fake wood panneling
Trucks decked out as if a luxury car making it no longer affordable to the adverage Joe (for christ sakes its a truck ment to be beat all the hell out of not sitting in it with your ac on, gps nav, leather interior, heated seats and mirrors, making it to the point your afraid to put anything in it because it cost an arm and a leg and god forbid it got a scratch!)

 

[Need4Speed]

ashtray...even when i smoked i never used it.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Vic
Cruise control. Should be outlawed IMO.

Why?

Inflexibility of speed among individual drivers is a major cause of congestion and accidents. Think prick in the left passing lane doing exactly 3 mph over the limit and won't move or speed up for anyone. Why? His cruise control is on, even in the city, and he don't turn it off for no one. That's bad driving period. The safest driving is continually adjusting to the flow of traffic.

There are many new cruise control systems that use sensors to speed up/slow down with the traffic. You can even set a "range" of speeds instead of just a regular one.

<----- has only used cruise control a few times in his life

I prefer to have control of my life, but I think it is silly you'd want it to be banned. You believe in personal rights and are a Libertarian to a large extent, so don't act as if wanting to ban this isn't crap.

Heh. I suppose I deserved this... but driving is NOT a right.

 

[The Linuxator]

None Honda FTW!!

 

[91TTZ]

My 1986 300Zx Turbo had an accelerometer in it.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: SophalotJack
The most useless feature I would have to say are the small cupholders in most cars.

I mean farking really.... who drinks canned soda? They were obsolete before cars were even made.

Why don't they just make them a little wider and deeper to fit bottled soda?

Think Beer.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: Accipiter22

Originally posted by: AmericanRebel
If you don't have the skill to manuver your vehicle without electronic aids you should not be driving it imo.

QFT!!

Some of us have the skill to drive without electronic aids but enjoy using them when they're available.

"Electronic Aids" can react much faster than you can to certain situations. Some are so good that a few formula one drivers use them. I know that because that is where those technologies was derived from.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: SophalotJack
The most useless feature I would have to say are the small cupholders in most cars.

I mean farking really.... who drinks canned soda? They were obsolete before cars were even made.

Why don't they just make them a little wider and deeper to fit bottled soda?

I drink canned soda because it is much cheaper than the 16,20, and 24OZ bottles. Plus it fits in the cup holders. Oh and at the Supermarket cans out sell small plastic bottles 18-1.

 

[Mr Demon]

I got a good one, the highest class mercedez has a neet new system that "in theory" works great. an automated computer detects objects in front of you making it great when it is super foggy, the car will be capable of sensing danger that you, the driver, cannot see. I saw the video of what it "should look like" computerized. A britain journalist decided to take Mercedez word for it and wanted to test the car. They said sure, come to our test site we'll let you drive it. So they get there, turn the sprinkler system on, creating fog and asked the driver to go all the way to 60, and was promissed that the computers would do the rest, meaning it would detect a car parked a fiew hundread yards away and slow the car down, eventually bringing it to a complete stop, without the driver ever taking his foot off the gas....

The 150 000$ US worth Mercedez hit the car at 30 milles an hour...

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: Mr Demon
I got a good one, the highest class mercedez has a neet new system that "in theory" works great. an automated computer detects objects in front of you making it great when it is super foggy, the car will be capable of sensing danger that you, the driver, cannot see. I saw the video of what it "should look like" computerized. A britain journalist decided to take Mercedez word for it and wanted to test the car. They said sure, come to our test site we'll let you drive it. So they get there, turn the sprinkler system on, creating fog and asked the driver to go all the way to 60, and was promissed that the computers would do the rest, meaning it would detect a car parked a fiew hundread yards away and slow the car down, eventually bringing it to a complete stop, without the driver ever taking his foot off the gas....

The 150 000$ US worth Mercedez hit the car at 30 milles an hour...

Better than 60 at least ?

 

[Tommouse]

Originally posted by: Aquila76

Originally posted by: Tommouse
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I don't have power steering in my car and it is Horrible (with a capital H). Makes me feel like a grandpa when I get out of the gym on some days, I just can't crank the wheel around, and you can forget palming the wheel.
Although if you do have powersteering and you lose the power portion it is much worse.
...

I can't believe they still have cars w/o power steering. My in-laws got a Saturn a year or so ago w/o power steering. I was like WTF? How can you have a car built in the 00's w/o power steering? That's like not having an engine, IMO.

Yea man, rockin the Saturn :roll:. This car has zero amenities/frills, very Spartan, but my dad handed it down to me for cheap back in HS (now a Junior in college) so it's serving its purpose. Plus I get plenty of pity points when people find out about the power steering. On a related note: People wonder why my steering wheel is so gargantuan, I'm guessing, its for leverage. Anyone else have an idea on that?

 

[SophalotJack]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: SophalotJack
The most useless feature I would have to say are the small cupholders in most cars.

I mean farking really.... who drinks canned soda? They were obsolete before cars were even made.

Why don't they just make them a little wider and deeper to fit bottled soda?

I drink canned soda because it is much cheaper than the 16,20, and 24OZ bottles. Plus it fits in the cup holders. Oh and at the Supermarket cans out sell small plastic bottles 18-1.

Point taken... but besides beer, as someone mentioned, they are useless to me...

Plus didn't someone propose a law sometime a little while ago about looking into wether people should drink beer and drive?