Stupic Car Features

Very cool stuff! A couple things I learned that I didn't know previously and a lot that I did. Did they forget or just overlook suicide doors?  LOL!!

Edit: #17, GM's Autronic-Eye that dims headlight hi-beams. Today they got it down pat! One of my most loved features. It's now called Intellibeam. It automatically senses when to turn up the hi-beams and way before the driver realizes that they need to dim it for an oncoming car or a car going in the same direction as you, who has suddenly come into your car's view. I find them flawless in operation.

Several of the featured problems work well today on modern cars. For example, headlight technology, retractable roof, reclining seats, fibre glass body panels. I totally disagree with the Corvair and the experimental turbine car being included here. Most, I agree with.

@david-green, Yes, I'm with you on those. Tony, Intellibeam is an amazing technology. I love it. But, we would not have it without those older healdight dimmers. I'm glad the makers keep developing things like this.

Posted by: @david-green

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Several of the featured problems work well today on modern cars. For example, headlight technology, retractable roof, reclining seats, fibre glass body panels. I totally disagree with the Corvair and the experimental turbine car being included here. Most, I agree with.

Completely agree David. And on the retractable roof, I have one on my M-B SL 500. Unlike the Ford here, the roof works either way in half the time, 20 seconds. It's never once given me a moments problem.

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@david-green, Yes, I'm with you on those. Tony, Intellibeam is an amazing technology. I love it. But, we would not have it without those older healdight dimmers. I'm glad the makers keep developing things like this.

Absolutely right on all counts John! 

A fun to watch video although fraught with inaccuracies. A full minute describing the problem with the retractable rear window on the Turnpike Cruiser Mercuries while showing several pictures of 49-51 models. It always amazes me why they hire people who know nothing about the subject matter to make these "documentaries". 

Interesting stuff.

@bob-jackman 

And if I remember correctly, Ford's safety push was 1956, definitely not 1965 as shown.

@ed-glorius You are correct Ed. Back in the early sixties I owned a 56 Victoria that had the safety package which included the padded visors, dash board and seat belts.

There's a difference, I think, between a 'stupid' car feature and a desirable feature that was not thoroughly developed and tested to assure reliability.    A number of the features panned in the video are available today in a more reliable form.    Who is it that makes these videos?   AI?    You got to wonder when, for instance, the topic of Mercury's 'breezeway' rear window comes up and they can't be bothered to depict a Mercury that actually had that feature.

Posted by: @bob-jackman

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A fun to watch video although fraught with inaccuracies. A full minute describing the problem with the retractable rear window on the Turnpike Cruiser Mercuries while showing several pictures of 49-51 models. It always amazes me why they hire people who know nothing about the subject matter to make these "documentaries". 

Mr. Jackman, you hit on one of my hot buttons.  When I watched the video above, it lost all credibility for me when they showed the wrong photos of cars.   

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A fun to watch video although fraught with inaccuracies. A full minute describing the problem with the retractable rear window on the Turnpike Cruiser Mercuries while showing several pictures of 49-51 models. It always amazes me why they hire people who know nothing about the subject matter to make these "documentaries".