Remember when the high-beam switch was on the floor?”
You bet. I took my “older” car in for repair a few years ago and they gave me a rental. Not only took me forever to find the switch for the high beam but I had to ask how to get the car out of park. Never quite understood why you have to push the brake pedal in to move the transmission to drive or reverse. Grandson laughed at me because I drove around for two days with the rear wiper going. Couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.
I just see no need for all this stuff on a car. People are so lazy and spoiled.
I personally think electric windows are a danger. If I ever end up in the water I want to be able to crank a window down.
They're designed that way for the same reason why ladies' hair dryers sport the warning "Do Not Use This Device In The Bathtub".
Lawyers.
My son is 23 now and he reminded me a couple days ago of one of the funniest practical jokes I played on him when he was 4 or 5. He was sitting on my lap in the driver's seat in our Ford Expedition and I was showing him how all the controls worked. I surreptitiously put my foot on the brake pedal and put it into reverse, then back in park and took my foot off the brake. I told him he could could put in reverse for me. "Really, Dad!!??" But I kept my foot off the brake and he couldn't budge the shifter. I asked "What's the matter, are you weak?" and then put my foot on the brake and easily slid it into gear. Then I put it back in park and took my foot off the brake. We went another couple rounds and he was getting really frustrated and boiling up, so I finally told him what I was doing. Here we are almost 20 years later and he still remembers it. I think he laughs about it, but I'm not sure.