Those small little details it makes your experience different. Most of the case you won’t notice those but it left you with good experience for using that product. Here are some of those details I noticed on my car, Acura CSX, that make my experience better.
Wiper Sensor: Living in Vancouver, rainy coastal city, I rely on my car windshield wipers quite a bit. Normally I set it to intermittent mode and adjust the speed accordingly. Here is what Acura did for me: if I am moving it is operating as I set to. But if I am stopping at traffic light or something, it slows down automatically until the car moves again. A few good things come out of this. First, it conserves energy. Second, it reduces wear and tear. Third, it does not get in your way when it is not needed. Here is one theory I have not tried yet: whether it will slow down when in fact it is raining very heavily.
Fan Speed: With my old Honda when I started the engine, it blows freezing air to my face since fan is set to certain speed. With Acura, it does not do that until engine is warm enough to actually provide warm air to heat up the cabin. Love not to get blown away by cold air when I am freezing already.
Volume Control: When you switch source on your stereo such as AUX, FM, CD, it maintains volume level set in each source. When I hookup my iPod to the stereo, I normally have to crank up the volume but I don’t really need to do that when I am on FM. I have had some bad experience with home entertainment systems that does not do this small thing.
All in all, auto industry has done a lot of research and improvements to make our daily lives better such as speed sensitive volume control, automatic wiper, automatic headlight, steering-wheel-mounted controls and etc. But most of those features are part of the advertised content. You know you are getting this feature or not when you buy the car. And I always love to find out small *good* things that are there but nobody told you about it. Who wouldn’t love (good) surprise?
Also here is something I found out recently that has been there in front of you for years. There is a small arrow beside gas pump icon in your car’s (for most of the cars’) dash telling you on which side of the car the fuel tank is. You normally won’t have problem especially with your own car, but it certainly come in handy when you are in a rental car.
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