[s-cars] 2004 best auto feature

[Keith Maddock]

Djdawson2 at aol.com <Djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
> CNN came out with some awards for the auto industry this year, one of which
> was for the "Best Feature we never knew we needed."
>
> Seems the fine folks at Cadillac, Lexus, and on one Chysler model.... came
> out with a breakthrough side mirror feature... it tilts down when you put the
> car into reverse.

I think a lot of cars have this feature now.  I know higher end models
of Chevrolet SUV's even have this.

The thing I like most about Audi's implementation, that I have yet to
see duplicated in any other car, is the ability to very simply
enable/disable this feature.  There are lots of times when I want to
see down when I'm backing up, but often I don't.  Having the buttons
right there to disable that in less than a second is handy.

I'd like to see anyone do it less than 15 seconds on most cars these
days where it's buried 3 levels deep in some vehicle settings menu,
most often only accessed through very clumsy interfaces.  I wonder if
Audi patented the concept of using the L/R selector switch to
enable/disable the reverse tilt down ?

Cheers,
Keith