Bloody normally has feathers on him... or so I heard...

You are going to stink if you can't shower for 48 hours...

Unless you have a newer car with radar cruise control. It's a wonderful thing. That and automatic high beams.

I hate most nanny's on newer cars but that one works well. Only problem is on the highway you may set cruise at say 80 and come up on a slower car and not realize you are now going whatever speed he is going. Happened to me often on a rental in Alaska until I got used to it.

Much more succinct than my babble. Thanks, Ded.

The one nanny feature I do like is on some Honda models have active blind spot cameras. As soon as you flip the directional on, it activates the camera in that bling spot. Big winner.

Cruise control has saved me from a bunch of tickets. Set it for 7 over and aim the car, listen to the radio, and sing along with Bananaram……. Just sing along.

Can't stand that adaptive cruise control thing. The wife's minivan has it and I turn it off every time I drive her car for road trips.

Also, that stupid lane-keeper notification yells at me if I change lanes withouth signaling even if there are no other cars for miles... It wakes me up EVERY time I am driving... So annoying.

The RAV we have has 3 settings for that. Far away, closer, and you better have your foot on the brake.

Self driving cars next and ultimately Johnny Cab. That’s the future.

Question for all adaptive cruise control vehicle drivers, do your brake lights come on when the adaptive cruise control slows down the vehicle?

It's an XLE. She has the BSM and the speed limit does display most of the time.

Best new feature and the one I miss the most because our old Ford Escape had it and RAV doesn't is that button that would return the seat and mirrors to your specific settings and the wife had a button for her settings.

Hated that feature and turned it off. Iffn you set it at say 4 car links as soon as the car in front slows you feel the brakes come on. A driver would not automatically hit the brakes but would most likely just take his foot off the go pedal and coast for a second until he was at the proper distance again.

I love Hondas!
My Accord Sport SE allows me to set the distance (yards) between my car and the car in front of me.

The best feature of all, paid for.

Ahhh, that paid for car smell. Haven't had a car payment in the last 40 years.

I'm on my second RAM 1500. The 2018 was the ecodiesel... 2 EGR issues inside 25k miles and was told no permanent fix in place. Sold it to Carmax.

Got my current with the Hemi. So far so good. *fingers crossed*

I had a Chevy Silverado 1500 I bought new in the early 2000's. 2006? I swear that thing was built on a Monday the day after the Superbowl by a bunch of hungover workers because I had nothing but problems with it.

It had a handful of recalls and some known problems that didn't make them problem enough to classify as a recall (they called it a service advisory or something like that). Engine issues, brake issues, power steering issues, clutch issues tranny issues (had to get the tranny rebuilt around 60k). Other than the recalls, those fixes were all out of pocket. I never drove it hard or had anything that I towed or used it for plowing. 30 min daily commute to work and back, run around town errands, trips to Home Depot for home fix up supplies, camping trips, ski trips. Try driving the Kancamagus Highway in the NH White Mountains coming home from a ski trip with no power steering - that's some white knuckling scary bad fun.

All of the problems happened after the warranty expired but under 100k miles.

I was so pissed at the thing. I finally got rid of it around 80k miles, I think, for a trade in. I took a kick in the shorts on that too because it wouldn't shift into 4WD which was the last straw. I determined that I had three choices: give it a ghost ride off a cliff, have a party and sell tickets for $10 per swing of a sledge hammer to beat the thing to a pulp or trade it in and get something for it.

I made an oath that I will NEVER buy any Chevy or GMC vehicle again. To this date I have upheld that oath and I don't plan on breaking that oath.

I digress, this is not knowledge recently acquired. I classify it as experience - something acquired AFTER you needed it.

Starlink has launched 5,420 satellites into orbit since May 2019, and plans to launch 6,500 more.

Long time gone, welcome back.

blinkies and beepies on a flyspeck of an island...missed ya!

Good to see you man..!!

Is a bardominium just a barndominium with a very large bar ? Good to see you again.

The world's highest mileage car is a Volvo P1800 with 3.2 million miles on it.

and that figure will go higher when Shohei Ohtani picks his next team...