Cars

There are a few problems with cars that seem to persist year after year, with no company willing to make even the most basic steps forward to address them.

First, headlights. Car goes off, headlights should go off. If necessary, give the driver 10-20 seconds notice, from which they can easily press a manual override if they want to keep the lights on. Why are we still depending on this dinging noise to remind us to shut off lights? Can anyone explain why no car company dares do the most sensible thing?

Second, heat. Cars overheat in the summer. Two problems here. One, I'll blame on cars. Cars do nothing when the heat is high, to ventilate the car. People deal with it year after year, and car companies, in their infinite wisdom do nothing.

Nothing.

So they rely on drivers to crack their windows open. They rely on them to put up those silly reflectors. Because they can't come up with a solution?

I'll blame the other problem on public lots that are both blacktop (absorbing tons of heat, but I suppose, immune to looking dirty), and have no cover of any sort. There's no tent to shield the place off in summers. I understand this is a difficult problem, but surely, someone has thought of something.

It's such a contrast, I believe, to software, where the tiniest of problems will cause your program to crash. People can blame Windows and other software all they want, but the fact is, they deal with LOTS of problems well, because if they didn't, they wouldn't even start up.

Where's the innovation, folks?