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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: repairs and obsolescence ish
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 19:31:31 -0500
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On 5/9/2025 6:21 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2025 06:32:17 -0400, zen cycle
> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/8/2025 8:51 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> I don't know this for a fact but I'm pretty sure windshield wiper
>> controls won't be found in a touch screen menu even on the newest cars.
>> It's invariably a stalk control.
> 
> Quite true.  However, there's usually at least one car designer who
> want to provide better "product differentiation" by implimenting
> something rediculous.  For example, depressing stationary push buttons
> is much too easy compared to a hitting moving targets.  I present to
> everyone the Ford Edsel steering wheel with electrical solenoid
> shifting:
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletouch>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletouch#/media/File:EdselRanger-interior.jpg>
> 

The quoted text below my name is not mine.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971