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Where has all the weird car tech gone?

Top Gear's list of annoying car tech says carmakers keep touchscreens because one screen is cheaper than wiring many buttons; the dog hair still wins.

On air: Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance on BBN After Hours
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTop Gear says a car door sensor can decide one dog hair is fouling the clasp, so the door opens again.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is a lock that surrenders to a hair.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTop Gear also says the car phones of the nineteen-nineties proved you had made it, and most makers have abandoned them.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSpiritually Florida, Gloria. A door that opens for anything with fur is basically a screen porch.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFact-check: this is Top Gear, in Europe. No porches.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorVoice control talks over your radio and needs silence to work. That's a Florida tour guide.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFlorida Man Rating: four alligators, and one dog hair, which got in free.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe dog hair, Chip, has never once been asked to leave.

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