Great Features Every Car Should Have – Part II

Part two of simple ideas that will make your life easier. In case of cars, easier also relates to safer and/or cheaper. You’ll wonder why all auto manufacturers don’t include them.

Coat Hanger That Works

Every vehicle on earth has a completely useless coat hook on the rear oh-shit bar. When you actually hang something on it, one of the following happens: your vision is blocked, coat gets wrinkled, coat falls. It works much better when you actually use a coat hanger but then the bottom part of  the coat that gets caught in the door.

Picture is self-explanatory. I believe that the only vehicle with this coat hanger is the Inifinti EX35 (review coming soon).

120vAC Receptacle

Allows you to plug in anything with a household 120v power plug so as long as it draws less than 10-amps. Plugging in video-games or laptop chargers on long drives is obvious, but this can be handy to have when storm takes out the power in your house – instant generator!

Most family-orientated Toyotas have it but it may be part of an upgrade package. A 120V receptacle is often included with a rear-seat entertainment system.

Conversation Mirror

A second convex inside rear-view mirror which allows you to see rear seat passengers. No more having to turn and look back, just a quick glance up. Ingenious, brilliant, and adds to overall safety. All family-orientated vehicles should have this.

Currently standard on Honda CR-V, Toyota Sienna, Highlander and probably a few others.

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Cheap Back-Up Camera

Exteriors of modern cars no longer engineered, they are styled. Since style and form do not always go hand-in-hand, many slick new cars have developed huge blind spots. Along with the fancy styled new bodies came growth in vehicle size.

To ease backing-up and parking of these new huge cars, many most manufacturers have wisely turned to back-up cameras, which work great. Unfortunately back-up cameras are often a part of pricey navigational systems and therefore few people opt for them.

GM, Ford, and few other have ingeniously included small back-up camera screen into the rear-view mirror as a standard feature on some models. Additional benefit is that the driver is now forced to look into the rear view mirror while backing up and not the nav screen.

One should always look back when reversing, but hey, people are lazy.