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My car tells me when it wants its oil changed.
It turns off its headlights if I forget.
There is also a button that tells me when it's friggin' cold outside. No, really. Well, actually, it lights up in the shape of a snowflake on the road. But since there's already a readout on the flatscreen that constantly gives me the external temperature, I must interpret this light-up button as my car exclaiming: "It's friggin' cold outside! Why aren't we in the garage where it's warm, again?"
This button has no other purpose. I checked! The first time it lit up, I panicked and looked up the symbol in the manual. (I'm still in the stage where every time ANYTHING foreign pops up on my dash, I'm scrambling through the manual trying to figure out what's wrong, and if the little symbol that resembles a motorist being run over by a ukelele means I've just broken the sound barrier and passed into an alternate dimension.) But the snowflake-button? "Lights up when external temperature is below 37 degrees."
That's it.
It doesn't mean the car's in danger of exploding. It doesn't mean that some intrinsic portion of the vehicle is about to drop out from under the hood. These are good things to know, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liggphys can attest. ("'The light flashes to indicate a severe malfunction that could lead to immediate power loss or catalytic converter damage--' Would you like me to stop reading now?" "I would like you to stop reading now. Thank, you, Ligg.")
And that is my discovery for the morning.
It turns off its headlights if I forget.
There is also a button that tells me when it's friggin' cold outside. No, really. Well, actually, it lights up in the shape of a snowflake on the road. But since there's already a readout on the flatscreen that constantly gives me the external temperature, I must interpret this light-up button as my car exclaiming: "It's friggin' cold outside! Why aren't we in the garage where it's warm, again?"
This button has no other purpose. I checked! The first time it lit up, I panicked and looked up the symbol in the manual. (I'm still in the stage where every time ANYTHING foreign pops up on my dash, I'm scrambling through the manual trying to figure out what's wrong, and if the little symbol that resembles a motorist being run over by a ukelele means I've just broken the sound barrier and passed into an alternate dimension.) But the snowflake-button? "Lights up when external temperature is below 37 degrees."
That's it.
It doesn't mean the car's in danger of exploding. It doesn't mean that some intrinsic portion of the vehicle is about to drop out from under the hood. These are good things to know, as
liggphys can attest. ("'The light flashes to indicate a severe malfunction that could lead to immediate power loss or catalytic converter damage--' Would you like me to stop reading now?" "I would like you to stop reading now. Thank, you, Ligg.")And that is my discovery for the morning.
