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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I've seen a car with the hazard lights button on the touch screen... Even the Teslas have a physical button for it. I imagine this must be a legal requirement, at least in some countries.

[–] dan@upvote.au 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I hope European-style adaptive headlights become the norm in the USA eventually. Some higher-end cars have a matrix of LEDs instead of one bulb per headlight, and they can programmatically dim just some of the LEDs. If you have your headlights on but there's a car in front of you (or on the other side of the road, whatever), the high beam will dim just the area the car is in. This happens automatically while you're driving.

This is an option in some European vehicles (or may be standard on high end ones) but they have to explicitly disable the feature when exporting to the USA.

The USA did approve something relating to this, but it must not be sufficient since the European manufacturers are still disabling the feature in the USA.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish adaptive lights were legal in the USA. Manufacturers like BMW have to disable the feature at the factory because their implementation isn't approved for usage in the USA.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

I think you want a 2007 Toyota Corolla lol

I've currently got a 2012 Mazda 3 but swapped the radio for one that supports Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. No other fancy features.

[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tactile controls cost more to install

Not just more to install, but also more to design. Physical controls have to be designed so they fit the aesthetic of the car and don't look out of place. On the other hand, a touch screen can just reuse a generic UI design across every vehicle made by a particular manufacturer, or even across different manufacturers if the same vendor supplies the same OS for all of them.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They could change the rules, but it took them many, many years to get to finalize the rules they've got today. IANA isn't exactly a fast-moving organization.

[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm pretty sure that the country of Tuvalu (population 12,000) love that .tv is so widely used. It's estimated that GoDaddy Registry (who run the TLD) pay around $10 million per year for the rights, which is around 1/7 of the entire country's GNI (gross national income).

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

.website is too long though.

[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Maybe people will move back to .ws. Western Samoa, but it was popularized as "website". It was the popular misused ccTLD before .io became popular.

Or maybe this will stop ccTLD abuse.

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 2 weeks ago

The comment you're replying to didn't mention ccTLDs?

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think they're referring to the fact that to get a very good .com, you'll have to buy it aftermarket (eg via Sedo, Dan, Flippa, etc) which can be very expensive. On the other hand, there's far more domains available under country code TLDs.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Two letter TLDs are reserved for countries. No gTLDs use a two letter TLD.

I guess in theory you could make a new country called "Input Output", get ISO3166 to be updated to specify "IO" as your country's two letter abbreviation, then request the IO TLD from IANA.

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