Maybe there is some honest thoughtful car salesman out there with a black opaque blanket to put over the car so you can sit in the dealer's showroom and see what the instrumentation dials and switches look like in the dark,,,mock as if it were night.(yeah right) Can you find the 4 way switch fast in an emergency if the traffic slows in front of you on the highway and someone behind you is not paying much attention before he/she drives into your back seat?,,, or is it thru the steering wheel and not glowing so you have to fumble to find it? Can you find the door locks, so if some creepy scary person approaches you can quickly lock your doors at night and in the dark? Are the speedometer numbers , like on my Acura, so 'artistic' that you can not read them ,,, or tell the diference between 60mph and 80mph,,,in bright daytime or dark illuminated dash red glow of night time use? Is there any foot pedal illumination? Is the Acura dome light so pale and yellow feeble that you can not read a map using it?
I wish also that we could choose to have U.S. customary "righty tighty" door locks instead of the asian front/back direction so that the passenger door and the driver's door lock in different directions!! What a bad idea for those of us born and raised in the USA. Car mfgs don't care it seems; we should be able to choose door lock systems, American/Asian. Just like we should be able to choose a v6 or a v8 or 4c in any car , a premium ripoff gas engine(Toyota MR2's ran Fast on regular gas) or a turbo direct-injected biodiesel engine. Intake port/manifold injection with all the carbon build up from the fuel burning before it even gets to the cylinder is such a shoddy antiquated foolishly bad-design idea!! My Isuzu Impulse had its intake manifold off every year for the mechanic to hammer and chisel the carbon off as he sat in the parking lot for hours!!
So CONSUMER REPORTS,,,When are you going to be more needed and sufficiently safety conscious enough to realize that DARK NIGHT TIME DRIVING IS MORE DANGEROUS than daytime driving generally and ,,, WE NEED THE BEST HEADLIGHT ILLUMINATION and DASH-SWITCH ILLUMINATION,,, and your denial of this bonehead , high school dropout obviously needed evaluation of cars is putting drivers and Millions of other share the road motorists at FATAL RISK!!
PS-in california,r.i.p., you are not officially "in a collision" unless your car makes contact,,not if your car is hit by flying debris, like a tire coming thru your Mercedes windshield that recently happened to a AAA member,,, or you and 30-50 other motorists run over broken car parts debris because the CHP is too lazy to do lane control and clean up the accident debris, as you hear passing car's tire after tire pop and rim after expensive rim grind and deform to junk, totally unnecessarily.
Hello!?
