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  Touchscreens should be disallowed as well. Give me something I can manipulate while not having to take my eyes off the road.
context: I was always taught to put your signal on when merging. The mirror thing is weird, though. Does it have a settings menu to turn that shit off? >
  
  The mirror thing points your mirrors down to see the floor, your backup camera has other angles covered. It's not a bad feature. >
  
  Yeah maybe I’m an old man, just hate not being able to look at my mirrors and see what’s behind me >
  
  This is a feature so you can see curbs and stuff lol >
  
  Seems like it would be for backing in, but not backing out >
  
  Some of it I think is just a hazard until you know it is there and what to expect.
  A car I recently rented had a collision alert sensor thing. Rental place didn't tell me the car had it, I had never driven a car with it before, first time someone cut me off it went off and it made me panic for a second because I had no clue what the flashing light and beeping was. Second time it happened though it wasn't an issue.
  The lane assist however, which is probably what you talking about when merging I can see where it is helpful but it is just god awful. Same rental had that, going down the highway I was coming around a bend and there was a semi coming the other way that was just a bit over the centerline so I tried to take the turn a little wide and go on the shoulder just a bit to give him room, damned car almost steered me into the semi to correct it. >
  
  "The shift knob"
  UGH, I didn't even know these existed until I moved my coworker's car for them the other day. Worst "innovation" ever. >
  
  BMW still has a shift handle.  What OP is referring to is you pull back to put it in drive, or push forward to put it in reverse.  The park button is on top.  It also will not let you get out of the car while in drive/reverse.
  Most cars have a similar setup now.  Very few are still using a system of pulling through reverse and neutral to get to drive.