So a mobile office like this ? :innocent:
And the wife gets pulled over for a license plate frame. Which I didn’t know was even a thing. 
In my last years as a cop I stopped using the Ford Explorers my department had, which had the latest and greatest equipment and went back to the crown vic with nothing in it. I still made the same amount of arrests and my arrestees loved the extra leg room
Yeah, “obscuring the plate”…
When I got my car from the dealer, I told them to not put one of those frames on, and they didn’t.
Instead, they slapped one of those hotglued decals on the trunklid. :person_facepalming:
Touchscreens to me are cumbersome, and I use the spinnyknob and actual buttons instead when possible.
Also keeps me from always scrubbing fingerprints off those print-magnets.
This picture (specifically the BLF home page on the screen) made me LOL.
It seems this decal thing is a non-Southern California thing? New cars sold in Northern California and other states seem to be riddled with the dealer name in a form of a vinyl decal or ‘fancier’ false chrome badge on the rear of the car. I used to take them off for my brother who lives in San Jose. Dental floss works well to ‘cut’ the double sided tape on badges; Zippo fuel works wonders on any residual adhesive and vinyl stickers. Most cars here in So Cal get a license plate frame. I promptly remove and discard the frame right after delivery.
Naw, this ain’t stickytape but actual hotglue. Needs to be heated to soften the glue and pry it off.
Wow, that’s a whole new level of annoying.
My latest car has a touch screen, but I don’t use it. Instead I navigate the screens using buttons and a rotary knob. I don’t like fingerprints on it and I don’t think my family even knows it’s touch screen so they don’t touch it either.
One of the benefits of a touch screen is that there’s a large screen for backing up and parking. And another is that I’m able to change what’s displayed on the screen to what’s most important to me.
Speaking of touch screens, how about the ones in Mercedes:
Here are some stats.
In the U.S. in 2018, over 2,800 people were killed and an estimated 400,000 were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver. About 1 in 5 of the people who died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2018 were not in vehicles―they were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise outside a vehicle.
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I get distracted just driving, sometimes scratching my back, putting a drink back in the holder, looking at gauges, looking in the rear view mirror, … A center console touch screen would be a death wish.
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I see people in the center lane on a 3 lane interstate going 55 mph getting passed on both sides while texting on a cell phone. The speed limit is 70mph and everyone goes 75mph or more.
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I’m fine with touchscreens in cars but only for things that you do not need while driving. You can find and press or control a real button without looking at it, try that on a touchscreen.
In Germany someone was fined €200 and a 1 month driving ban because he/she changed the wiper interval speed using the touchscreen while driving in a Tesla. According to the judge the touchscreen is a electronic device and you are not allowed to control electronic devices while driving.
Court Fines Driver for Using ‘Distracting’ Tesla Touchscreen.
The first time I used a GPS device I almost ran a red light.