Irritations and annoyances

I hate thread is over there >>>

Fuck you, new page!

I hate thread is over there, hippy.

Fuck you too, hippy!

Exasperated voice, but how can you do with out a 256 colour Gantt chart?

Partly joking partly people can be such fuckwits.

I don't need to know if the pun was intended or not. You just ruined it.

The hyphen in Spider-man

Six digit log-in codes sent by websites that are sent by different six digit phone numbers.

Brompton deciding to make a lefthand shifter control the rear derailleur of their new lines. Dick. Heads. I keep ringing my bell when I want to shift, and crunching through a gear change when I mean to ring the bell.

Ha ha ha, yes I've fallen victim to this before!

This occurred to me as I was driving home this evening and it's kind of a confluence of various topics that I've been reading through on this forum recently (car thread, people not dipping headlights, being tall...)

Anyway, but the ergonomics of things.

I have never had a car, where I have the seat and the steering wheel adjusted for the most comfortable driving position, where I can actually see the top most row of information lights on the dashboard. Every car I have ever had, I have to dip my whole head down to see the lights that tell you that your headlights are on or that tell you that your full beam is on because the steering wheel is on the way.

I did some ergonomics modules at uni and seem to remember that, at best, things are generally designed for the 5th to the 95th percentile. If you're outside of those margins, you have to just put up with it or buy specialised stuff.

Car fit?

I assume you’ve checked, but does your car have a lever under the steering wheel to adjust the angle/height?

Seriously though if you don't have electric seats you could modify the seat mounts to lower or raise the hieght.

Yes, but then it's not in the position I want it for driving position.

It's not just this car, but every car I've ever had (owned or company cars).

I think this might be an airbag thing. Back in the days of Minis and Anglias, steering wheels were much lower, much closer and angled downwards. I think I read that from a safety perspective it’s better to have the steering wheel further away, higher up and more vertical. I’d wager that the dash is designed around the steering wheel being in the higher position for regulatory reasons but when you move it closer and lower to get it comfortable you end up obscuring all the warning lights etc. Old way was far more comfortable to drive IMO but tbh I don’t think a lot of people even notice how badly their own driving position is set up.

Or this.

Combined with a little swishy red light on the front

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why is that not thundercat icon on the steerer !?

Classic Minis had alll their instruments low down in the center of the dash presumably to make it easier to produce left hand drive variants .
The seat moved back and forth the steering wheel was fixed there were no other adjustments you just fitted yourself around the controls

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Vanced still works perfectly for me. I simply cannot watch YouTube without it now as the ads are just too much. Not on iPhone though so not sure if there's an iOS equivalent

Sort of see what you were getting at.
Trying to remember when collapsible steering columns became a thing in the UK. As I'm sure the anglia/mini (early mini)didn't have one. Think the the two piece system was used so the steering column does not become a spear.