This happens to us every 16 years or so: we go from the old generation of a vehicle to the new one and experience the wonder of what’s happened to vehicles recently.
I wanted to turn on the lights because it was overcast, and I couldn’t, but then when I got home the lights were on because, I guess, it knew it was overcast. Gary said the new cars know when it’s overcast, and they car puts on the lights for you. I tested that this morning when it was overcast – in fact it was raining, and the car turned in the lights while it was in the garage, and then the car turned on the wipers when I backed out into the rain.
I said, that’s too much magic for me today, and pulled back in. I’ve decided I can accept one weird thing each day. Yesterday it was the realization that if you leave it alone in the garage for a few minutes it entertains itself by throwing a illumination advertising on the garage floor.
That was yesterday’s magic. And, honestly, that was a little scary too. “It knows its name! It’s sentient!”
Speaking of scary, I was initially interested in the fancy wheel covers that resemble a UK electric outlet. I had no idea they were initially called the “Corona” model.
Imagine being reminded of the virus every day for the next 16 years.
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I… do not like… things being done automatically, unless there is a manual override option so that if the sensor gets “confused” I can turn things off/on as is *actually* applicable.
Well, also, sometimes our windshield has this specific sort of tree crud on it where if you run the wipers unless it’s *really* wet, visibility disappears for a bit, so we deliberately don’t turn the wipers on until the windshield is wet enough to wash the tree crud off, rather than just for a drop or two that doesn’t harm visibility itself but will when it’s smudged around. But maybe the Mini has technologically-advanced out of tree crud, too. Or maybe they just assume that people, you know, keep their cars in garages and wash them regularly…
KC – I was surprised that it didn’t clear off the back window by the time I thought it would, so I did it myself. So the wipers can be manually controlled, but stopped? I don’t know. I bet if I took control the auto-wipe would stop. The lights don’t matter – they could be on all day and not hurt anything.
I love that so much – such fun!
Thanks, Lisa!