Tim McDaniel wrote:
> In article <mike-F6FC70.20270705112
...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Mike Ash <m
...@mikeash.com> wrote:
>> In article <7lh9ilF3c7fe
...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Robert Bannister <robb
...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>>> Add ... starter buttons ...
> A cow-orker's Prius has something I would have called "a starter
> button", but I suspect we're thinking of different things. His is a
> button that activates the car so that steering wheel and pedals work.
> (I think his key has a fob that transmits a short-range radio signal
> to authorize such actions.
>>> I imagine the cigarette lighter will stay as an
>>> accessory socket, but the ashtray will no doubt be next to go.
>> My 2005 Malibu has neither ash trays nor cigarette lighters. It has
>> the power socket that the lighter would go in, purely for accessories
>> as you say, but the covers (there are two sockets) don't heat up when
>> you push them in. So, this is already well into the past.
> I believe I saw a comment in a manual that you cannot plug in a
> lighter simply because there wasn't enough current for it.
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