Features you've discovered about your car after a year or more

Freightliner: Briefly press the windshield washer button to wipe the windshield once.
 
When I remote start the Jeep Grand Cherokee, with HVAC on "auto", the HVAC fan is full blast, until you open the door. It then downshifts the air flow to about 25%, until there is enough aux heater or engine heat to trigger a higher fan speed to get to desired temp.
Another one is if you want to make a quick stop, you can leave the car running, have the fob on you, lock the car and unlock as required.
Nice when the car isn't fully warmed up, like stopping at a community mailbox check, bank machine withdrawal, etc.
 
Ok. I was around in the 80s (and before) and have never heard of that feature, much less encountered it, but then I never made a habit of driving long distances with a turn signal on .
I think the first car I had with that reminder feature was the '89 Olds Cutlass. I don't recall it on the '84 Escort, or the two previous and earlier Fords.
 
This may sound weird but, I noticed how much of the car and its features that I DID NOT use, need, want nor care about.
Have never used the remote start feature on the Buick. The salesman demonstrated it, but there's some trick to it -- the car stays locked while the engine runs, and then when you get in, you have to push the Start button? Not sure.
 
Well, discovered today that the Jeep can park itself 🤷‍♂️

I was out test driving another X5 the other day and the guy showed us that it can park itself. I was kinda surprised that I didn't have that in the Jeep. Guess I shouldn't have been, I just didn't know it had it.

I was sitting in the parking lot at Sobey's with my kids and realized that the button beside the lane assist (that's always disabled) wasn't the parksense disable, that was on the other side (you can tell how frequently I use these...) This one had a picture of a wheel and the parking sensor "radar". Hit it. Told me I had to be in gear to use it. Put it in gear. Fancy little picture popped up in the cluster telling me it was looking for a spot to parallel park in. Said hit OK to switch to perpendicular. I hit OK. While my kids were in the store I drove by a car, it told me spot found, instructed me to take my hands off the wheel, put it in reverse, and then it backed into the spot, same as the bimmer.

I doubt I'll ever use it, but it was neat nonetheless.
 
Well, discovered today that the Jeep can park itself 🤷‍♂️

I was out test driving another X5 the other day and the guy showed us that it can park itself. I was kinda surprised that I didn't have that in the Jeep. Guess I shouldn't have been, I just didn't know it had it.

I was sitting in the parking lot at Sobey's with my kids and realized that the button beside the lane assist (that's always disabled) wasn't the parksense disable, that was on the other side (you can tell how frequently I use these...) This one had a picture of a wheel and the parking sensor "radar". Hit it. Told me I had to be in gear to use it. Put it in gear. Fancy little picture popped up in the cluster telling me it was looking for a spot to parallel park in. Said hit OK to switch to perpendicular. I hit OK. While my kids were in the store I drove by a car, it told me spot found, instructed me to take my hands off the wheel, put it in reverse, and then it backed into the spot, same as the bimmer.

I doubt I'll ever use it, but it was neat nonetheless.
My mom's newer Ford Edge has it, but she's too scared to trust it.
 
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