Re: Canadian Subaru Outback Wilderness Gets A Key Feature - U.S. Is Left Out

Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/23/2021 9:46 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
>> Yousuf Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Canadian Subaru Outback Wilderness Gets A Key Feature - U.S. Is Left Out
>>> | Torque News
>>> https://www.torquenews.com/1084/canadian-subaru-outback-wilderness-gets-key-feature-us-left-out
>>>
>>> It's a heated steering wheel! Interesting that they won't even offer it
>>> as an option on the US models?
>> 
>> "Customers in the U.S. will have to wear gloves when the temperature
>> drops below freezing in the Northeast, Rocky Mountains, and the
>> Northwest."
>> 
>> Um, who the hell goes outside when it is so cold outside without gloves?
>> Freezing is hardly so cold to need gloves, or a heated steering wheel.
>> If it's sub-zero, you'll have on gloves before you even reach your car,
>> like donning them when inside just before going outside.  You'll already
>> have your gloves on when you get into your car.  Oh my God, those will
>> interfere with using all those gimmicks inside the car.  Yeah, we
>> certainly need to maintain the loss of focus on using the gimmicks
>> instead of having drivers perform their main function: drive the car.
>> 
> I suppose you don't like the heated seats or heated mirrors either?

I have an Outback with heated seats.  Not because I wanted them, but
because the model they had available had them.  I forget about the
feature; i.e., I rarely turn it on.  Mostly when it's elderly family
members getting into the car when I use them, especially Grandma who
like to kid "Where's the heat?" as soon as she gets in.  For me, and
since the heated seats do not turn on when I start the car, I forget all
about that feature.  Just something more to break.

Heated mirrors is a safety feature, not a comfort feature, so including
them in your argument is irrelevant.  I'm not sitting, holding, or
otherwise touching the side mirrors.   The heated mirrors come on when
turning on the rear window defroster, so it's coincidental (not
deliberate) that the heated mirrors activate when I want rear window
visibility.  However, I certainly wouldn't rely on heated mirrors to see
when backing up after starting the car.  I'd have to wait around too
long for the mirrors to clear.  Instead I scrape the side mirrors, get
in, and back up.  I'm not waiting around in the cold for convenience.  
Get in your car, mirrors are iced over, start from cold, and sit around
waiting for the mirrors to thaw?  No thanks.  If the mirrors thawed in
10-20 seconds, the glass would crack from the fast temperature change.
Another thing to break.  Scraping has worked for decades.  Since I'll be
scraping all the other windows before driving off, adding the mirrors is
an obvious included chore.  I also don't start the car, lock and leave
it, and come back 20 minutes after all the windows have thawed.