Name Something You Discovered About Your F-Type AFTER You Bought it...
#301
+1. I am currently driving an XF as a loaner while they try to sort out the clutch. It has a HUD that will show speed, gear, and whether the cruise control is engaged (each separately and in combination selectable). The display is executed quite nicely, but for someone with a manual transmission, all of that info is useless. All I would want in the HUD is an analog tachometer.
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#304
So that you don't take your eyes off the road, esp. when you're going at high speed. Why do you think fighter jets have HUD's?
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Uncle Fishbits (04-04-2016)
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Uncle Fishbits (04-04-2016)
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Very wide, but I imagine: analog button, digital button, digital button, or however many clicks/presses it takes is less safe than just making sure you are safely merging... and, if I left it on all the time, I would likely get mesmerized and confused. I will check this out!
#311
I think you could install a HUD?
How to Build a Heads-Up Display for Your Car
I am trying to figure out all my dreams installs prior to a 4K summer road trip. To have a HUD would be delightful.
#312
Here's something I learned:
I finally admit to myself I don't really know how the climate control buttons work, not in the slightest, and I've been willfully ignoring whatever the hell is going on and just pressing the buttons more.
I just began trying to type out to explain the sequence of weirdness that happens when I start hitting the buttons, but I can't even explain.
They never seem to intuitively do what one might expect.
I finally admit to myself I don't really know how the climate control buttons work, not in the slightest, and I've been willfully ignoring whatever the hell is going on and just pressing the buttons more.
I just began trying to type out to explain the sequence of weirdness that happens when I start hitting the buttons, but I can't even explain.
They never seem to intuitively do what one might expect.
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teacoff (04-04-2016)
#313
There is a particular intersection in Baltimore (turning left from eastbound Saratoga onto N.Liberty) where none of the windows or mirrors on the Coupe allow a view of traffic coming down N. Cathedral which turns into N. Liberty (both one-way traffic) at that intersection. A rear camera would be helpful, but I suspect the fisheye effect of the parking camera would make it difficult to judge position of the oncoming traffic. I'll give it a try if that feature is available on my car.
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Uncle Fishbits (04-04-2016)
#314
Very wide, but I imagine: analog button, digital button, digital button, or however many clicks/presses it takes is less safe than just making sure you are safely merging... and, if I left it on all the time, I would likely get mesmerized and confused. I will check this out!
I think that's up for debate in the coupe. On my daily route I've got a merge into the left hand lane (so looking over the passenger side into the fast lane), and it's physically obscured a good deal because you start out at a lower elevation than the freeway. Not much room to assess once you're even able to see the traffic coming up behind you. It sucks.
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Uncle Fishbits (04-04-2016)
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I think that's up for debate in the coupe. On my daily route I've got a merge into the left hand lane (so looking over the passenger side into the fast lane), and it's physically obscured a good deal because you start out at a lower elevation than the freeway. Not much room to assess once you're even able to see the traffic coming up behind you. It sucks.
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I think that's up for debate in the coupe. On my daily route I've got a merge into the left hand lane (so looking over the passenger side into the fast lane), and it's physically obscured a good deal because you start out at a lower elevation than the freeway. Not much room to assess once you're even able to see the traffic coming up behind you. It sucks.
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How to Adjust Your Mirrors Properly
A much better way of adjusting your mirrors based on a paper published in 1995 by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). This is the technique I teach in all of my HPDE classes. It pretty much eliminates the "blind spot" & helps keep your eyes/head forward.
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#319
Most drivers have their mirrors adjusted improperly & create a "blind spot." This (bad) technique is taught almost universally in all basic driver's schools.
A much better way of adjusting your mirrors based on a paper published in 1995 by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). This is the technique I teach in all of my HPDE classes. It pretty much eliminates the "blind spot" & helps keep your eyes/head forward.
A much better way of adjusting your mirrors based on a paper published in 1995 by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). This is the technique I teach in all of my HPDE classes. It pretty much eliminates the "blind spot" & helps keep your eyes/head forward.
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Uncle Fishbits (04-06-2016)
#320
Here's a potential solution: Program seat switch #2 with the exact seat settings as switch #1, but with the right hand mirror adjusted outward to see traffic you are merging with at a sharp angle. That way you can just push the #2 button when you first approach the entrance ramp and then press #1 as soon as you have merged to return it to the normal position.