What's your favourite unappreciated feature in a car? I can't remember when electric windows became the norm but I always thought they were so cool
I remember when my mother first showed me automatic windows with a sort of magic-trick-esque presentation, and I couldn't believe my eyes.
But yeah, for my "people don't know how lucky they have it" pick:
I don't know if I could count safety features, because you can only experience them when things go south, but if so probably ABS. It is extremely valuable to have a system whereby if you need to brake fast you can just mash the brake, which will be your instinctive reaction anyway, instead of having to develop technique to do your panicked self what ABS does but much worse.
If not: I drive a 1981 car and a 2017 car, and the most concrete differences between them in daily life are CVT (which is convenient but me likey doing the clunk clunk with the hand), Hi-Fi (Bluetooth stereo v. Bluetooth speaker, but Bluetooth isn't really a huge convenience of the car as much as the car getting compatibility with the huge convenience of the smartphone and thus would be little more than neat without advancements outside of the car, and I don't think stereos are that underappreciated) and finally, and here's the one really no one thinks about, central locking.
Sure, remote locking is really nice too, but I feel like people think the big gap is between having a remote and being stuck fiddling around with undignified keyholes - but that's not that big of a deal, you've gotta walk up to the door anyway. What's the real big deal is going from that to having to check each and every door when you walk out of your car, and if you remember you have to grab something on the rear seats go unlock the front door, open the front door, reach around to unlock the rear door, then go back out, open the rear door, grab the item, close the rear door, close the front door, lock the front door, walk away, and fuck you forgot to lock the rear door, walk back, open the rear door, lock the rear door, close the rear door. As soon as there is more than one person using your car, and even before that, central locking becomes such an immense convenience that nobody realizes because they think anything less than remote locking can be bundled together as caveman stuff.
Although perhaps the true answer is something so underappreciated that I didn't even think of it, so give me y'all's pick in the reblogs, in the replies, or if you really wanna be that shy about it (boo), in the tags!
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Ringo Starr-Barbara Bach "Cavernícola" (Caveman) 1981, de Carl Gottlieb.
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John Matuzak and Ringo Starr in "Caveman" (1981).
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Watching Caveman (1981) because my mom wanted to... it's so bad it's insane. It's too disgusting to be so bad it's good but still impressively high budget for what absolute swill it is.
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april 27, 1981
The Beatle and the Bond Girl: Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach after meeting her on the set of the movie Caveman. They defy Hollywood odds and stay together.
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