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Casey Liss

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4570 total appearances

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Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Door handles are the obvious victim here. Can we just have normal door handles? No, it's an EV. They have to be annoying, hard to use, problematic door handles. It's been just an epidemic. Everyone keeps copying it. No one has figured out, hey, just make normal door handles. Going back to normal. But no, they can't. They can't stop doing it. They make all sorts of excuses or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Door handles are the obvious victim here. Can we just have normal door handles? No, it's an EV. They have to be annoying, hard to use, problematic door handles. It's been just an epidemic. Everyone keeps copying it. No one has figured out, hey, just make normal door handles. Going back to normal. But no, they can't. They can't stop doing it. They make all sorts of excuses or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Anyway, that extends to many other parts of the car. On the Volvo EX90, and I like these cars. I like, you know, as far as SUV goes, I think they're nice looking. They have good features or whatever. But Volvo, like you said, decided to make an electric version of Casey's car. All electric, battery powered EV, right? And for the most part, it looks like the regular one, right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Anyway, that extends to many other parts of the car. On the Volvo EX90, and I like these cars. I like, you know, as far as SUV goes, I think they're nice looking. They have good features or whatever. But Volvo, like you said, decided to make an electric version of Casey's car. All electric, battery powered EV, right? And for the most part, it looks like the regular one, right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

It doesn't, they didn't do anything weird with the styling. I forget if they have messed up door handles, but who cares at this point? I just, you know, it's invisible to me. What drove me insane was that they said, you know what? Is there some other part of the car that we can screw up because it's an EV? We have the XC90, and it's a perfectly nice car. Could we just make that an EV? No, wait.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

It doesn't, they didn't do anything weird with the styling. I forget if they have messed up door handles, but who cares at this point? I just, you know, it's invisible to me. What drove me insane was that they said, you know what? Is there some other part of the car that we can screw up because it's an EV? We have the XC90, and it's a perfectly nice car. Could we just make that an EV? No, wait.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Is there some part of the car that previously had no problems with it that we can screw up because it's an EV? And they said, yes, yes, we can. And you know what they screwed up? If you haven't seen reviews of this car, maybe you don't know, because if you look at a picture of it, you're like, oh, it seems fine. It looks kind of like my XC90.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Is there some part of the car that previously had no problems with it that we can screw up because it's an EV? And they said, yes, yes, we can. And you know what they screwed up? If you haven't seen reviews of this car, maybe you don't know, because if you look at a picture of it, you're like, oh, it seems fine. It looks kind of like my XC90.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

They decided that they're going to screw up the headlights. Oh, stop. It's fun. No, no. Let me tell you. All right. So headlights, there are things on the front of your car that light up, right? And over the years, we've done lots of different things with headlights. We talked about it on a previous episode that Mercedes used to have little windshield wipers and little sprayers to go on them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

They decided that they're going to screw up the headlights. Oh, stop. It's fun. No, no. Let me tell you. All right. So headlights, there are things on the front of your car that light up, right? And over the years, we've done lots of different things with headlights. We talked about it on a previous episode that Mercedes used to have little windshield wipers and little sprayers to go on them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

BMW probably did it as well. All the German car makers had little windshield wipers. It's like, hey, if you're going on the road and dirt flies up on your headlights, not as much light will get out. So we'll try to clean them off.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

BMW probably did it as well. All the German car makers had little windshield wipers. It's like, hey, if you're going on the road and dirt flies up on your headlights, not as much light will get out. So we'll try to clean them off.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

modern cars tend not to do that it's kind of out of fashion but they're more aerodynamic shaped and we have led lights which of course can be smaller but just as bright and we have matrix leds all sorts of advances trying to make lights better to serve you better and volvo said but this is an ev let's screw them up in some way and so what they decided to do was for their headlights

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

modern cars tend not to do that it's kind of out of fashion but they're more aerodynamic shaped and we have led lights which of course can be smaller but just as bright and we have matrix leds all sorts of advances trying to make lights better to serve you better and volvo said but this is an ev let's screw them up in some way and so what they decided to do was for their headlights

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

You have to have daytime running lights for laws in various places, which are just lights that are on when you're just driving around. But then you have the headlight part of it. And they said, what we can do is we'll have the daytime running lights where the headlights normally are. In the little Thor's hammer Volvo design, we're going to have little matrix LED daytime running lights.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

You have to have daytime running lights for laws in various places, which are just lights that are on when you're just driving around. But then you have the headlight part of it. And they said, what we can do is we'll have the daytime running lights where the headlights normally are. In the little Thor's hammer Volvo design, we're going to have little matrix LED daytime running lights.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But they'll be where the headlights are. And you may be asking, but then where do you put the headlights? If you put the daytime running lights right where the headlights were going to be.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But they'll be where the headlights are. And you may be asking, but then where do you put the headlights? If you put the daytime running lights right where the headlights were going to be.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And how do you get to the headlights? You know, if you're in the car and you turn on the headlights, or you probably don't because it's just auto mode or whatever, it gets too dark and you need the headlights to be turned on, what happens is that the Thor's Hammer daytime running lights open like a mouth.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And how do you get to the headlights? You know, if you're in the car and you turn on the headlights, or you probably don't because it's just auto mode or whatever, it gets too dark and you need the headlights to be turned on, what happens is that the Thor's Hammer daytime running lights open like a mouth.