A letter to the inventor of the automotive visor

1. Mikeme

   25 February, 2007, 10:04 am

   Should combine their efforts with the turn signal engineers ( another highly technical group!) 😆

2. Anna

   25 February, 2007, 10:23 am

   Dave, the height-challenged peoples are forever grateful.

3. Bigwavdave

   25 February, 2007, 11:29 am

   Let’s not forget front seat side windows.

4. adognamedgromit

   25 February, 2007, 11:44 am

   I think I was waiting for Dave to be interviewed in that video on # Video of the Day #2: A growing phenomenon called “Internet”

   It is rumored he started it all, you know.

5. Bjorn Freeh

   25 February, 2007, 11:55 am

   Visors were excreted, not invented.

   Years ago, I had a small pickup. It had a visor that slid along a rod, allowing it to be moved from the front of the side window (for the height impaired) to the back of the side window. It was useful.

   SO… of course… they stopped making it. Now, there’s a 4-inch gap between the visor and the door post, allowing (forcing?) the sunlight in where I need it least.

   They can make a visor with a fully-stocked beauty salon but they can’t make it slide.

   Wipers? You can set the pulse rate to whatever’s on the radio, but they still can’t remove the day-to-day schmutz at the driver’s eye level.

   Get rid of the windows, I say. Yeah, that’ll about do it.

6. Jennifer

   25 February, 2007, 12:15 pm

   Hear Hear! Thanks for bringing to light something that has affected us vertically challenged drivers since cars were invented. Perhaps someday the visor inventor will achieve fame and glory and have his day in the sun (hmm!)

7. Tim R

   25 February, 2007, 12:26 pm

   Used cars don’t lose value as fast as new cars :wtf:

8. Spud

   25 February, 2007, 4:06 pm

   Short people got no reason
   Short people got no reason
   Short people got no reason
   To live

   They got little hands
   And little eyes
   And they walk around
   Tellin’ great big lies
   They got little noses
   And tiny little teeth
   They wear platform shoes
   On their nasty little feet

   Well, I don’t want no short people
   Don’t want no short people
   Don’t want no short people
   Round here

   😛

9. Mandy

   25 February, 2007, 4:31 pm

   Bless you for writing this Dave. :kiss: :kiss: :kiss:

10. adognamedgromit

    25 February, 2007, 4:58 pm

    Make the window A large heads up display that puts a nice semi transparent dot right on the sun.

    But it could malfunction turning your whole window flat black making your car unsteerable.
    I see a recall coming. 🙁

11. Flash Gordon

    25 February, 2007, 5:06 pm

    The women in Chattanooga use turn signals to hang
    their handbags on. Many of the men also. A little
    sun in your eyeballs prevents cataracts. 😛 🙄 😕 :wtf: 😈

12. sledge

    25 February, 2007, 5:13 pm

    Remember,on your drive in to work you need the sunshine directly in your hung over eyeballs to tell you that last night really happened.They stll sell a stick up contact patch to go on the windshield wherever you need it.

13. Anna

    25 February, 2007, 5:17 pm

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    quoting Randy Newman will not get you anywhere with us midgets … :limp:

14. pablo

    25 February, 2007, 5:48 pm

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    How about this then?

    I smell a class action suit. The lawyers will band together and sue the auto industry for discriminating against the vertically challenged. After that they will take on the amusement parks with their nose in the air attitude of you must be this tall to ride. Next the pork counsel for allowing small people to be called Pigmies.

    When it is all said and done, the money is dispersed, huge quantities of elevator shoes are purchased and tall stools are brought to the banquet tables a large chorus of voices will be raised to the sky for all to hear,

    “We represent the Lollypop guild, the Lollypop guild, The Lollypop guild, and we welcome you to Munchkinland.

15. Bjorn Freeh

    25 February, 2007, 6:03 pm

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    I’ve always preferred “You can leave your hat on” to “Short People”. It applies to folks of all heights…

16. Spud

    25 February, 2007, 6:28 pm

    The sarchasm here is very wide…

    😀

17. adognamedgromit

    25 February, 2007, 6:30 pm

    Just get an autonomous vehicle like “Stanly” here, it is completely driverless. You should just technically jump in it and say Mall please. You can even put labels over all the windows fixing the glare problem.
    http://www.autoblog.com/2005/10/11/darpa-grand-challenge-won-by-stanfords-stanley/

    Although it is a bit pricey to fix that problem.

    Here are some clip on ones I found
    http://www.shadetreeonline.com/sunglide/sunglide.htm
    http://www.visorshade.com/

18. Driver

    25 February, 2007, 6:48 pm

    Both good points Dave but I wonder why they think they have to put as many controls on the steering colum as posible. My point, whatever happened to the headlight dimmer switch on the floor…oh yeah a simple toe tap was far to easy. :wtf:

19. Bjorn Freeh

    25 February, 2007, 8:47 pm

    Question about the poll: If a body part is listed in the poll, does it become less useless than those not listed, as it was useful in the poll and the unlisted ones were not?

    Hey, it’s either this or watch the Oscars…

20. Driver

    25 February, 2007, 9:06 pm

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    Bjorn, I think by being listed in the poll they have exceeded thier usefullness and therefore are more useless than before. 😛

21. Bjorn Freeh

    25 February, 2007, 9:48 pm

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    So they’re being usefully useless? Unfortunately, that describes my career.

22. ItsMeMaven

    26 February, 2007, 1:36 am

    AMEN!!!

23. Lake Effect

    26 February, 2007, 8:19 am

    I still miss the little triangular vent windows…for fine tuning airflow without letting rain and snow in; for letting out smoke amd odeurs, etc.

    “I’m an old man now and I have known a great many problems in my life, most of which never happened.” — Mark Twain

24. Bigwavdave

    26 February, 2007, 8:51 am

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    AKA: Wind Wings

25. Linda Eskin

    28 February, 2007, 11:05 am

    Oooh! This is one of those “don’t get me started” topics. You addressed it brilliantly. I’m sending people from my blog ( http://uigeek.com/ ) to read your letter to the engineering team.

    And I’m with Lake Effect, “wind wings” should be on every car. My old pickup has ’em, and for the 3 years the AC was out, and time the driver’s side window wouldn’t go down, they are priceless. They probably reduce gas mileage or something.

    p.s. I have a local friend who goes by Davezilla, too.

26. Meagan

    02 March, 2007, 5:58 pm

    Having been a passenger for most of my life, I wholeheartedly agree. And what about those in the back seat? ‘Cause you know that somehow a crack of light is gonna make it back there and stare you right in the eye. Ow, my eyes!

27. BOB

    04 March, 2007, 3:29 am

    yea…you gotta give’em a break, what? wtf am i saying?
    come on viser dudes i don’t wanna burn my eyes out!

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