They ought to put an outside thermometer in every car. They are not expensive, the sensor can be had for a couple of bucks. And some software to read the sensor, scale the answer into degrees F, and display it on the digital dashboard. Software is free.
They ought to give us back a dimmer knob for the dash lights. My current car, a Buick, has a daylight sensor that looks for sunlight and when it fails to find any it figures it is nighttime and dims all the dash lights. It gets things wrong, a lot. Just pulling into a parking garage is enough to make it think its nighttime, and then it makes everything on the dash, the clock, the radio, all the instruments, too dim to read. A good old fashioned knob that you turn by hand to set the brightness of the dash would be a blessing.
They ought to make the digital dash readable. Mine shows everything in a single tiny display which hides behind one of the spokes of the steering wheel. It has 5 push buttons to select which is displayed, oil pressure, battery voltage, coolant temperature, mileage, fuel economy, etc, etc. The display is so small I cannot read it wearing my driving glasses. Better would be good old analog gauges, the kind with a needle in them, all on the dash all the time. And mark the dials with green for normal operation and red for trouble.
Then it would be nice if they made a sporty car that can be driven in snow. The current sporty cars, Camaro, Mustang, Challenger, are so bad in snow that people laugh if you turn up with one at a ski resort. Or for that matter just in Littleton NH, the locals figure anyone driving a sporty car is a flatlander.
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