There are probably some in that category. However, I would imagine that the numbers are few since most people see value in these features and rarely to they cause annoyance (unless they stop functioning)
If you've ever shined a flashlight in your grandmothers eyes in the daytime and watched her wince in pain, you'd understand. A direct beam in the eyes can be quite intense.
Apples and oranges. The beef would be with the government that requires the seatbelts...not with GM. Your example doesn't impact GM sales for two reasons. It isn't GM's fault that seatbelts are forced on people AND no one can buy another brand car without the seatbelts either. With DRLs, it *IS* GM's fault they're forced on you and you *CAN* buy just about any other make of car without them. Bottom line. Customers make choices...they always do! Either GM gives them the choice OR they find the choice elsewhere. Quite a simple concept..heh!?
Wow Haryface! You lasted longer than most of us! I'm now waiting for the car audio system to come with a USP port and that can hold ALL of my MP3/WMA music files...almost 1800 of them and counting. Since I worked out a way to "capture" music my old 1960's and 1970's LP and 45 records to music files, I've been listening to music I haven't listened to for probably 10-15 (or more) years! Getting them all on a small digital music player (a.k.a. MP3 player) sure makes it convenient! Having a car system that could natively hold them would be even better yet!
There you go GM. There is a idea you could be 1st to market with! Give me a car with a built in MP3/WMA player and give me *total* control of the lights and other systems and I'll buy one of your cars tomorrow!
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1991 Pontiac Bonneville LE 301,365 miles
Now you're stretching it James. But to go from the ridiculous to the sublime, I would suggest to you that if your grandmother was driving down the street in the daytime and I was coming from the opposite direction and shone a flashlight into her eyes, she wouldn't even see it! Hell, she might not even see my car!
Having children is hereditary - if your parents didn't have any, neither will you. Sting Ray
James, here's some good news for you. I've found that you can burn hundreds of songs in MP3 format onto a regular CD-R disk that will play in newer car CD players. I have a single disk with over 500 tunes, burned in MP3 format, from the '60's and '70's.
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So you have never been on a long trip and got blinded by headlights in daylight. I remember years ago driving on holidays when people were told to turn on their head lights by radio stations but nothing was said about making sure you put them on dim. I think having head lights on motorcycles turned on is self survival, but I don't believe they help one iota on a clear bright day with cars.
They don't help...and 10-years of insurance loss data seems to prove it.
The worst are the high beam DRL on trucks that pull up from behind and sit at a stoplight. The lights are above the trunk height and shine directly (and intensely) into the drivers eyes from the rear-view or side mirrors. It isn't too bad back when also driving high profile vehicles myself (which also has dark tinted rear windows). However, if in a sedan, it seems the rear-view mirrors are right in the path of the most intense part of the beam (on high-beam DRL implementations).
But, again, this thread is about sales and what can impact it. This is a very good point though. If people driving ANY make notice what make cars annoy them most with their high-beam lights on all day long, and they desire not to be annoying themselves, they will come to the conclusion to avoid the GM brand in any future consideration for their next vehicle.
Apparently you've never done it to you grandmother. I only did it once!! :-) And, a 3-watt flashlight beam is not nearly as intense as the beam that emanates from a a 55-watt high beam lamp.
I'll have to give that a shot! Thanks! -Jim
LMAO! I'll bet that your grandmother is still cussing you James! Even if from above!
James, I actually stumbled across that discovery while playing around with my Nero Express software and I was amazed that it works. To be honest, I still cannot figure out how it works. I know that MP3's are much smaller files, but the CD turns at a certain speed and I just can't fathom how one CD spinning at a certain RPM can actually hold so many MP3's. But it does! If you can explain how it works, please enlighten me.
When music is written to a CD, it itakes about 10 megabytes of data to encode one minute of audio.
The MP3 process "squeezes" ( encodes ) the data, so it only takes about 1 megabyte per minute of audio.
No doubt! ;-) But, hopefully I made up for it in later years. I had her come live with me and the wife and great-grandkids so the wife and I could to take care of her, take her to treatments, etc. when she was dying from Leukemia. Golly, that was 16 years ago now!!! (Yikes!)
That's about right. And, if you encode the MP3 at a lower bitrate, you can get even more songs on a CD. The caveat is that quality of the sound goes down as the MP3 bitrate does. Most people use 128KBPs bitrate as a compromise.
I haven't tried this yet. Most of my music is in WMA (Microsoft's competing audio compression technology), so I would need to convert them to MP3, I'd bet.
DLR's are good and thats all that needs to be said....I dont want to talk about it anymore!
You are confusing DLR's with Automatic Light Control. I too love ALC, but could'nt care less about DLR's. H
Yes, he is confused. Seen it time-and-time again in this NG...which obviously is fairly typical of quite a few people that own GM vehicles. It's just a example of yet another problem with GM's control designs and systems implementations. But, now we're getting off topic...except perhaps how a car with confusing, a-typical (or some say, non-standard) operating controls might negatively influence repeat buyers...assuming the existing customers even figure out that they are confused (this one hasn't and neither have many others that have posted here over the years). I suppose it does/can have some negative impact to sales though!
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