Run-flat tyres have a much stiffer sidewall so that even when there's a hole and the tyre loses pressure the wheel still retains its shape, more or less. (So it's a bit of a misnomer because they don't actually go flat) But you can't drive at full speed on them, and they're heavy and expensive.
We have little cans that are supposed to seal and partially inflate a punctured tire. Don't know if they work.
One theory about why people are still mostly in the tank for car culture is that they've been getting so relentlessly engineered for internal comfort that it's less of a hardship to spend 3 hours a day in one than thirty years ago.
Of course I'm sure there remain a lot of blind spots around design for women.
But then the biggest blind spot is that NHTSA still doesn't consider safety-to-pedestrians in-scope for car design, so we get proliferation of child-killing high fronts.
2: I've used fix-a-flat many times and love it. I'm told mechanics hate it because it gums up the inside of the tire. To which I answer, "Sorry!"
Engine maintenance required taking out the whole front end of the car body, preferably in some establishment with the required space and equipment.
"Preferably"?
On closer inspection, one could see that there was no hood, that is, no access panel permitting access to the car's engine.
This reminds me of a favorite story about me and cars. As a late 20th-century man, I know that when the car doesn't start, the thing to do is to open the hood and look at the engine. That is pretty much all I know about fixing cars. But there was one time, way back when I was living in Chicago, that I opened the hood and immediately knew what what was wrong with the car. The battery was missing.
Writing that out made me think that maybe the "no access panel" is a good idea to prevent battery theft.
Unless you need one for your car, stealing a car battery seems like a very unprofitable crime.
My in-laws have a car that is only supposed to be serviced after 25,000 miles or more (I forget exactly). But it has a regular hood you can open.
Filling the windshield washer tank was done by a capless ball valve
This makes me wonder how you can see if the tank needs filled. One of the things I don't like about Toyota is that there is no way to see the washer fluid tank. So you can find out that you have no washer fluid while driving 70 mph in heavy traffic on I-80 outside Chicago at -10 Fahrenheit with water splashing on your windshield and freezing instantly so your wipers won't clear it alone.
Caps as in CAPITAL LETTERS or what you wear to keep the sun out of your eyes?
You'd think that a lot of the things the women are carrying in their very-full arms would involve containers with lids.
Our new car doesn't have a gas cap either. You just push the nozzle into the hole.
Maybe their arms wouldn't be so full if they used containers for the various and sundries. It's hard to hold diapers and milk and butter loose in your hands.
Maybe women don't like lids because our clothes have no functional pockets to put them in?
I'm interested in the ponytail-accommodating indentation. I'm imagining a perfectly ponytail-shaped cavity in the headrest? They should offer an accessories package with a variety of headrests that you can switch out: yoga bun, french twist, fresh perm, etc.
when the car doesn't start, the thing to do is to open the hood and look at the engine
Ha, I do this and the most I can diagnose is "well, nothing's on fire".
If something is on fire, they recommend not opening the hood.
If you can't open the hood, how do you heat sandwiches on the engine block?
A real lady-driver of a lady-car would be more interested in a casserole. You're not sincerely interested in this car.
They should have gone for broke and called it the Volvo Vulva. But maybe that didn't work in Swedish.
Like how they did for sexually insecure men with "Dodge Ram."
21. If something is on fire, they recommend not opening the hood.
I recently witnessed a car fire (probably electrical) that (a) took 15 minutes for the police to put out, (b) had ongoing flames about four feet high, and (c) melted the hood of the car. Speculation was that the hood was plastic.
Note: It was awesome. Probably not a good idea to breathe near it, though.
This tweet is going around lately: "If you have a truck with balls hanging from it, and your truck wasn't born with balls, and you put the balls on an elective process, you have a trans truck. Congratulations"
26: Maybe shouldn't have bought his wife that GMC Canyon.
Google tells me the Swedish word for vulva is blygd, which I choose to believe is onomatopoeia.
Automatopoeia is when you put a rubber blygd in the tailpipe of a Volvo.
I would like to go back to the "starve a cold, feed a fever" comment. I know that's not what you said, but it is what you were referring to. Anyway, is it simply an instruction, or a warning? You should starve a cold, but feed a fever? Or, if you starve a cold, then you will feed the subsequent fever? I have tried to look this up in the past unsuccessfully. And I am not just any doctor, but doctor whoops.
I forget. I haven't had a fever since 2019.
It's a huge pain, but I've got to say, washing my hands really works.
Anyway, is it simply an instruction, or a warning? You should starve a cold, but feed a fever? Or, if you starve a cold, then you will feed the subsequent fever?
The former, and yes to the subsequent question, is my understanding. I have zero medical training, however.
Agree with teo that it's an instruction, but disagree that there's any warning. Colds aren't followed up by fevers. It's just a simple set of instructions. IANAD either.
IANAD either but I do recall reading an article that treated "starve a cold, feed a fever" as a straightforward instruction, and explained why it is completely wrong.
IANAD either but I do recall reading an article that treated "starve a cold, feed a fever" as a straightforward instruction, and explained why it is completely wrong.
I always thought it was feed a cold and starve a fever, not the other way around. Maybe that's why its wrong.
So did I but I didn't want to contradict a doctor.
This is the vainest comment ever, but my own OP title keeps making me chuckle. I just wanted me to know that.
So many of your titles are great that I forget to acknowledge them.
40: same, and the logic was simple(istic): if your body is cold, it needs more fuel, if your body is hot, it needs less fuel.
I rarely get either these days, but I remember getting ferociously hungry during colds when I was in my teens/twenties.
I'm interested in the ponytail-accommodating indentation. I'm imagining a perfectly ponytail-shaped cavity in the headrest?
I think my previous car had this - the headrest wasn't a solid cushion, but a sort of hollow square with a hole in the middle that went all the way through. I never quite understood why.
I am fascinated that the ideas in the YCC seem to be evenly divided between "good idea, now widespread" (hybrid powertrain, keyless entry, capless tanks, folding rear seat, easy access to storage space) and "insane" (no bonnet, gull-wing doors).
What it doesn't mention is whether the hatchback closed automatically - or whether you (being a short possibly female person) had to do an awkward leap up to catch the door and drag it down.
re: 46
That used to be quite common on older cars in the UK. If you look at, for example, an old crappy Vauxhall Nova, the head rests are a hollow square of surprisingly hard uncomfortable foam. I always expected if I'd had a crash in one--I used to drive my ex-g/friends back in the early 90s--that I'd avoid whiplash because of the headrest but experience some kind of rear head trauma because the foam was so hard.
re: 46
A lot of cycling helmets have an explicitly designed pony tail port at the rear, too. Which doubles up as an air vent for those of us who lack ponytails.
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