Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
Some things tend to be unavoidable. Like if you raise your wipers to the raised position to wash the car, then forget to lower them before opening your hood to wash the engine bay, you'll get a black paint scratch on the rear edge of the hood. Don't ask how I know that!
This seems to be one of those situations. Maybe Ford even knows about it, but in the spirit of approving the layout without a $500,000 redesign to accomodate the 0.01% of drivers that might actually use that seating position, they acknowledged it and passed it along. I'd have probably made the same decision.
And I do think folks are taking this way too seriously. I think ekpolk posted it as more of a "huh, that's funny" than anything else.
Thank you Jason, you nailed it. I'm not an engineer, but I do frequently notice little things that shouldn't be in all the mechanical things I deal with every day (maybe I should have been an engineer...). Incidentally, the Camry is not immune either. My favorite on that car is the position of the "ECO" button for the climate control. When activated, it puts the AC into a "degraded" mode that supposedly uses less juice (but being an auto AC system, you'd think the computer will fight to achieve the set temp no matter what). Did they put this button on the climate control panel? Nope. They hid it, invisibly on that panel in front of your left knee!!! Easily the dumbest thing in the car. And it's right next to the identically sized button that opens the fuel filler panel. Y'all know what mistake I've made multiple times... But hey, at least opening your gas flap while driving is only an annoyance (albeit a major one...).
