Meet the New Car, (Almost) the Same as the Old Car

[cynic51]

For those who aren't on Facebook, I got a new car back on September 6. You might reasonably ask why I got a new car when I was perfectly happy with my 2000 Honda Accord LX? The reason, of course, is that I managed to wreck it in a high speed collision on the interstate the week after I got back from Iceland. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. If I'd

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[aiela]

My '08 Cobalt doesn't have daytime running lights, but it does have the sensor-headlights, which means I haven't had to turn my headlights on or off in going on four years. It's interesting how something you'd done all your life just falls out of your routine.

[tigerlily_blue]

Speaking of "how something you'd done all your life just falls out of your routine," - during my 3 months in the Philippines, I never drove a car, but I was a passenger in many a vehicle, most of which lacked safety restraints (seat belts for the lay folk.) Upon returning to the US, I still wore a seatbelt while driving, but had to "relearn" how to put on a seat belt when a passenger!

[cynic51]

I think it would drive me nuts to have a lights sensor, but as mentioned above I can be really finicky about things like wipers too.

[jumpinfool]

The automated lights thing drove me nuts for a few weeks, then became the new normal. Now the only thing that bugs me is when valets "help" by turning it from 'auto' to 'on' (there is no 'off' unless you count the questionably useful 'parking lights' setting).

On a slightly different subject, I'm pondering the "lightly used" concept for my next car purchase (on the general philosophical grounds that new cars are a shockingly inefficient use of money); out of curiosity, what channel did you buy through? Honda dealer, other new-ish car dealer, used car dealer, the Interweb...?