What about steering wheels though? What do cars without steering wheels use? Joysticks?

My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off. As you guess, this was not a feature they were selling.

I was supposed to co-facillitate a PD today. I got there and had to run 90% of the entire PD. Which would normally be fine, if I had prepped for 90% as opposed to the 10% I had prepped. So I went completely off script. And may have gotten myself in trouble.

Ooops.

The Nissan Altima I rented when I was in CA for the F2F last summer had a keyfob that contained a switchblade-style backup manual key for unlocking the doors. Ignition on/off was by a button on the dashboard. If the keyfob proximity didn't activate the ignition, the backup was a port on the lower left of the dashboard where the keyfob could be docked. I don't recall whether the dock would also recharge the keyfob.

My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

Yup, mine too. Although the tape deck mostly doesn't work anymore.

Today I: went grocery shopping, made dinner for a friend with a new baby, went to visit friend and hold her new baby, went to Target (in and out for $53! yeah!), drove home, drove M to the airport for a flight to NYC, went to Gris & DW's Derby party, came home, fed the baby and put her to sleep, fed the cats, fed myself, scooped the litterboxes, washed a load of laundry, and watched an episode of ST:TNG. Need to switch around the laundry and install the new baby gate before I go to bed, and maybe start the dishwasher.

I hope we get at least a few hours of dry, sunny weather tomorrow. I'll be home with the baby all day and it would be nice to be able to go do something with her outside.

Jetta is actually not a good baseline for that. The VW group which includes Audi has been one of the last to add keyless as an option.

My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off.

My 1976 AMC Hornet was similarly keyless in 1989-90.

I have never had a car with CD player.

Just finished part one of margarita-fueled cleaning.

I am also margarita fueled. Not so much with the cleaning though.

I saw Iron Man 3 today, and I was surprised by RDJ's stance in a few shots--he does genuinely look like a not-tall guy--be it proportions or body language, but he is a wee little puppet man enough that some scenes stand out as being boxed or his crazy high heels. Then I noticed him walking like Jensen Ackles--but surely if he's bowlegged, that klaxon would have gone off long ago. So I'm assuming that's macho swagger on his part, mandatory on Jensen's.

But I googled his name and bowlegs just in case and...lots of pictures of Jensen. Is he in the dictionary next to the term? I thought he was just the tumblr definition (he pretty much owns the tag).

I was discussing "those things you never saw/read that everyone else has" and someone was explaining her lack of Sartre (clearly different definition of "everyone") and I like her phrasing:

I've never really touched Sartre besides what was brought up in high school lit and I just feel like I don't care because there probably aren't any dragons and I'm an adult now and I just want to read stuff with dragons.

Yeah, that's broccoli reading for ya.

I miss my tape deck, because the gap between that and playing my iPod is too large. Still haven't made it in to any shop to get a thingy put in, and my visit to Best Buy was scary. The questions their installers couldn't answer...

Jetta is actually not a good baseline for that.

Well, I'm not replacing it with nothing--what's a better baseline?

I love that my car has a tape deck and not a CD player - until aux ports became commonplace, I was forever getting into rental cars with CD players and no way to plug in my iPhone. (FM transmitters are all crap, but the fake tape cassette with the little wire coming out of it? Genius.)