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129 points

Who wants.to adjust the seat and mirrors every time they drive?

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80 points

Maybe they just hit a button (1, 2)

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33 points

Don’t even need to hit it sometimes - the profile often goes with the key fob too.

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12 points

Yeah but if they’re just grabbing keys that wouldn’t work, but hopefully would let them pick the profile when car starts

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4 points

As someone who used to work on other people’s cars, I think I’ve had my knees jammed into the dash way too many times to ever want this on one of my cars. Fuck that.

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I can relate to this so much lol. I’m very tall and I remember getting into the Mercedes of a little old lady. The seat started moving forward while the steering wheel extended towards me. Felt like I was about to be featured on the hydraulic press channel.

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3 points

The absolute panic when you put the keys in the ignition and the seat starts moving forward. You try to move it back before your knee slam into the dash, but the controls arent exactly where you thought

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1 point

You mean due to the risk of accidentally hitting a button that sets the seat to a short position while you drive?

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3 points

I wish those worked for all the mirrors too. At least mine won’t do that anyway

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30 points

They must be similar sizes.

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20 points

My wife and I are about the same height so we don’t have to adjust our seats.

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6 points

Same with my wife and I. Seat doesn’t move, only adjust rear mirror. The side mirrors are set up for her since it’s minimal adjustment for me, it’s not worth it unless I’m doing a long drive like 3+ hours

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2 points

I’m quite a bit taller than my partner, but she has a big bum and I don’t and it nets out to us having the same seat position, just different seat back angle to accommodate our different arms

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7 points

It’s not a big deal. My SO and I are very different heights (like a foot/35cm), and it takes all of 10 seconds:

  • slide seatbelt adjustor up/down
  • move seat forward/backward
  • adjust mirrors

We do it like 2-3x/week, and as the taller person, I’m totally capable of doing the adjustments while driving out of the neighborhood. It’s really a non-issue.

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9 points

My wife and I are just the right height difference that the little flicky switch on the internal mirror will swap between the angles each of us need.

One day we got a car that has some auto light filtering for night driving and it doesn’t have the switch. Can’t wait to sell it.

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3 points

You could just replace the mirror, it’s not normally that difficult to swap out

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2 points

When I drive my girlfriend’s SUV, I have to stand outside of it and work the controls until I’ve got enough room to get in. It’s not awful, but does kind of suck on hot summer days when I just want to be in the air conditioning.

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Our old (2006) minivan has an electronic adjustor, so I just hold that down while getting in (butt in seat, press button, swing legs). Our other car (2007 sedan) is even easier, since I just tap the adjustment bar under the seat and it slides back as I’m sitting on it (again, sideways). Then I adjust the shoulder seat-belt just before grabbing the belt to buckle, then I adjust the rear-view mirror while checking as I back up. It’s pretty smooth and routine.

Our AC takes a while to turn on anyway, so I don’t expect any AC until I’m at least a mile or so down the road. We park in the shade (garage at home and work), so I don’t need the AC anyway when setting out.

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2 points

I just angle the back and slide the seat and i am good to go. It’s all analogue, quick and easy.

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2 points

My car does this automatically depending on the key fob used, or the smart phone that’s closest to the driver seat depending on which you are carrying. Seat, and mirrors.

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-1 points

My wife and I happen to use the same seat position and wheel position, so we just have to adjust the rear view mirror and during the time of year when it’s really hot/cold maybe adjust the vents to how we each like. Takes like 5 seconds to adjust

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-15 points

That’s not a thing in modern cars.

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37 points

Power seats and mirrors with multiple memory is still a luxury car feature and not mainstream like power windows.

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8 points

The OP did not say what kind of cars they have. It is possible to have 2 cars with memory seats and mirrors. Now if only we could get memory rear view mirrors on the same cars as memory seats. Oh and seatbelt height adjustment memory.

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I wouldn’t call it a luxury car feature. In the US basically every car >30k has that. And most new cars cost >30k at this point. Basically every trim over base that’s like the first thing they add.

I had a Ford Focus rental car with power seats once.

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