A heck of a lot of dumb people drive Fords and they can roll windows up with the fob. Oh the injustice.
Key fob question
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I’m not sure if they still make models with rear windows that only went half way down. Same safety idea. Way back in the day on one of my older Vettes there was an aftermarket product that went into the OBD2 port. It had several functions, one of which was auto up/down of windows. One of the silly functions that it had was after a series of buttons being pressed it would point the speedometer to 52mph. If you got pulled over you could set it and tell the officer that it was broke and you weren’t sure how fast you were going. Never tried but it made for a good laugh.
Here are the government regulations for manufacturers.
www.ecfr.gov
www.notateslaapp.com
Federal Register :: Request Access
www.ecfr.gov
Tesla to Remove Window Auto-Close Features Due to New Regulations
An updated Federal regulation from the NHTSA no longer allows for auto-close windows via the car or an app, among other features.
www.notateslaapp.com
That may be the ruling on teslas, but we all have auto close via the button in the door in the AT4. It's allowed as long as the windows have some sort of "rebound" system.Here are the government regulations for manufacturers.
Federal Register :: Request Access
Tesla to Remove Window Auto-Close Features Due to New Regulations
An updated Federal regulation from the NHTSA no longer allows for auto-close windows via the car or an app, among other features.
It also shows that the FOB has to be within 6m of the vehicle. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a function for raising but what would be the fallout to the manufacturer if there is a failure to a safety system? Better to avoid a problem then defend it in court.
Whaler27
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Yup! The nanny features on newer Jeeps make my head explode.
I learned how to drive a tractor by myself when I was 8 years old, and by the time I was 9 I was hitching and backing trailers. My dad taught me to look at the distance between the trailer and the hitch, then get on the tractor and find a pebble, leaf, or scrape in the dirt that was the same distance and offset behind the front tire, so I could back to that mark to hitch up. After a few hundred hitch-ups I got good at that, so that’s how I’ve hooked up trailers for the last 5-plus decades. Unfortunately, you can’t see the front tire from the driver’s seat without the door ajar, and having a new jeep’s door open automatically engages “autopark”. (The jeep puts itself in park.) It’s incredibly irritating —all because some poor Darwin award-winner managed to run himself/herself over and his/her lawyers put the wood to Jeep. Modern Americans think every tradgedy merits a big payday for somebody.
Pretty soon we’ll all have to be wearing nomex suits and helmets just to start our trucks…
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I remember and still would... putting wood, floor mats, etc, under the rear tires, while in gear at idle when stuck on ice. That was around the 70's when very 4x4's were produced. Nowadays it seems all are.
Whaler27
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Me too. And the early 4-wheel drives were finicky and often difficult to get in and out of 4-wheel drive. We went from manual Warn hubs, to full-time four-wheel drive, to automatic hubs, back to much better locking hubs, to the new automatic systems and lockers we have today. It’s been quite a ride — and I’d unwind all of it if I could go back to 1970 where the engines were simple, we burned real gasoline, there was room to work under the hood, I could see pavement on both sides of the motor, and I didn’t need a cell phone to buy tickets or run my life. Vehicles were less capable, but no less fun, and we got where we needed to go. If we were flying, we got everywhere easily. No TSA. No barriers to the gate. No lines… Ample space between seats… Ah, the good old days…
Ha. But I believe fords have the resistance block when rolling up. And they hit something they stop immediately.
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