Just last week I changed the oil
Nov. 26th, 2004 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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zandev's attention to the fact that the vast majority of cars seem to have their petrol filler caps on the right hand side. He pointed out that that was silly, and that there should be an even distribution.
We tried to count filler caps on cars going past, but ran into a problem: seeing one means the cap is on the right. Not seeing one means the cap is on the left or you just missed it. Plus there were issues with cars going past too quickly, sun in eyes, etc.
So, I think a little scientific rigour is needed. And what could be more scientifically rigorous than an LJ poll ?
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zandev's attention to the fact that the vast majority of cars seem to have their petrol filler caps on the right hand side. He pointed out that that was silly, and that there should be an even distribution.We tried to count filler caps on cars going past, but ran into a problem: seeing one means the cap is on the right. Not seeing one means the cap is on the left or you just missed it. Plus there were issues with cars going past too quickly, sun in eyes, etc.
So, I think a little scientific rigour is needed. And what could be more scientifically rigorous than an LJ poll ?
[Poll #391837]
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Date: 2004-11-26 10:25 am (UTC)A nice sensible system is something like VW's - where one moves the switch up to get intermittent, up to get slow wipe, up again to get fast wipe. And push back to wipe the back window.
Alfa, in their wisdom, devised the following:
The stalk has two rings. Turning the inner one turns the rear wiper on or off. Turning the outer one determines whether moving the stalk down will produce long-delay intermittent, short-delay intermittent, or continuous. Fast requires pushing the stalk down another notch.
For some reason, this *still* requires conscious thought to work out what combination of turning rings and moving the stalk is needed to get the wiping I want.