The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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I think Mustang and some other 'Murican cars had something like this for quite some time already.
But they do need it more, what with only having red lights in the back of the car.
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On the far side, like passenger door, or just on the right side of the console so you can still reach it relatively painlessly?
As @loopback0 said, it's in the same position as it would be on the LHD model. It's as far away from the driver as possible whilst still being in the front of the car.
If you had a 307 you'd notice the larger wiper was on the driver's side because they didn't think to swap that over either
It's the same on my 206, the wipers are the wrong way round. It means it doesn't clear my side of the windscreen properly, it does it in an arc instead.
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Que? Lights in the left, wipers on the right?I think that's the typical way around, the only vehicle I've ever driven that was different was a 1994 Hyundai something.
It's the opposite way round to my girlfriend's ford, my dad's toyota, a BMW mini that I've driven, and a company honda that I drove. It's the only car I've driven with the controls that way around, it makes it a pain to drive other cars.
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Stalks? Amateurs!
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It's the opposite way round to my girlfriend's ford, my dad's toyota, a BMW mini that I've driven, and a company honda that I drove.
Are you saying they usually reverse the stalks for UK market?
Because all Ford's and BMW's I've driven were lights left, wipers right.
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Is that a real car or some concept car experiment gone horribly wrong?
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The controls are actually surprisingly easy to get used to. They are not horrible, just...
FrenchCitroën.
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Citroen is basically just "What would Peugeot designers do if they were a bit insane and drunk more often".
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It's the only car I've driven with the controls that way around, it makes it a pain to drive other cars.
I've some how managed to miss most cars with them that way around then.
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Nah, they did what was considered weird shit even before they got bought out by Peugeot:
While not the first production front wheel drive car (Alvis built the 1928 FWD in the UK, Cord produced the L29 from 1929 to 1932 in the United States and DKW the F1 in 1931 in Germany) it was the world's first front-wheel drive steel unitary body frame production car. Along with DKW's 1930s models, the Traction successfully pioneered front-wheel drive on the European mass car market.
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The Citroën Traction Avant is an executive car
I don't know, it's probably nothing special, but it seems weird to me to base a pickup on your executive series.
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Citroën.
The only one I know of with a fixed steering wheel hub
The central part with the buttons stays fixed and doesn't turn. Takes a few minutes to get used too but actually handy.
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"What would Peugeot designers do if they were a bit insane and drunk more often"
PSA designers work for Peugeot in the morning then have at least a bottle of wine at lunch and start designing Citroën.
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I think Mustang and some other 'Murican cars had something like this for quite some time already.
They do, and there's just one stalk on the left for both the turn signal and wipers. Lights are a dial on the side.
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just one stalk on the left for both the turn signal and wipers
I suppose you have to, with the right stalk usually being taken by the transmission.
But how does it work? Lights can be a dial, but both wipers and indicators usually are implemented as moving the stalk up-down.
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Mustangs have the gear shifter between the driver and passenger seats.
The wipers are controlled by a sleeve on the stalk that can be twisted back and forth.
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Ah, I see. If the lights are a separate dial I see how this can work.
On my car the "sleeve" is used for lights and that's how I read your post initially.
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Fun fact: left clicking on that image reveals it and then takes me to Wikimedia a second later. Middle-clicking reveals it without leaving the site or opening the image in a new tab.
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Just click on the spoilered text, I guess.
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It's like Randall knows Blakey!
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But they do need it more, what with only having red lights in the back of the car
Most of the cars I've ever owned have yellow turn indicators. I don't know what dumbass thought red ones would be a good idea, but I wish he'd been stopped.
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I am deeply disappointed that at no point in this article was there a mention of a spell duel. Some witches.
http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-10-28/salem-witch-this-warlock-is-harassing-me/
True story: I lived in Salem for about 5 years. Halloween is the second Christmas, except for how it comes first in the year.
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I don't know what dumbass thought red ones would be a good idea, but I wish he'd been stopped.
As I understand it, it was a great idea a long ago.
You could have just one bulb: steady - position light, bright - brake light, flashing - turn indicator.
I'm speculating it was done either due to simplicity or being more cheap at the time.The rest of the world moved on, the USA stayed with their one true way. Cf. metric units, date formats, a lot of other things.
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Not much of a witch then if she has to resort to going to court to resolve harassing.
What happened to just turning the offender into a frog or something?
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@obeselymorbid said:
What is this sorcery? I seriously hadn't heard about this before.
So a rain sensor (same or similar to automatic windshield wipers, I guess) which constantly monitors rain even when car is locked and turned off?
Yeah, it uses the rain sensor from the automatic wipers. If the window is left open longer than 24 hours it closes them anyway, so presumably stops checking if it's raining too at that point.
It doesn't drain much current to constantly monitor for rain. It's a normally open circuit, and water is conductive enough to turn it on.
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What happened to just turning the offender into a frog or something?
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It doesn't drain much current to constantly monitor for rain.
Oh yeah I know, but there's no point monitoring once the window closes so assume it stops.
It's a normally open circuit, and water is conductive enough to turn it on.
It's on the inside of the glass - it's an optical sensor.
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I don't know what dumbass thought red ones would be a good idea, but I wish he'd been stopped.
Pretty sure that's illegal around these parts. If I'm not mistaken legislation explicitly requires the color to be amber.
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around these parts
Which parts?
I'm in Europe and in my country it's definitely legal for old cars to have red turn signals. Also white reversing light is mandatory so some old American cars had to be retrofitted with those.
I believe you cannot certify a brand new car with all red lights, but I'm not sure on the details.
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I'm in Europe
So am I :highfive: Portugal in particular.
But I can't be arsed to go look for regulations at the moment.
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Does the US get third brake lights?
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Boy, that would kill my preferred hold. #NoWrappingFingers
There was this joke about a woman who locked herself out of her car. She was telling her friend how she had to call her husband to bring a spare key, but after calling him, she discovered the passenger-side door was unlocked.
"What did you do?" the friend asked.
"What do you think I did? I locked the door."
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Mustangs did that in the '70s. The new ones do, too.
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Was that car built for humans, or tentacle aliens? What a mess of a dashboard.
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That was funny back when Austin Powers made that same joke.
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built for humans
by programmers.
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Was that car built for humans, or tentacle aliens?
I'm going to assume it was built for the French. Make your own conclusions about that I guess.
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EDIT: also A Bloo Bloo, I forgot about this one from a few years back:
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I think we all knew this all along:
Dean Frenkel, of Victoria University, believes the quirky Australian dialect stems from early settlers’ booze-filled conversations.
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If I fits, I sits. True for all cats, no matter the size.