“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
That’s a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn’t need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it’s due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
Oh shit. I forgot about the 2018 mid quarter decade refresh. They don’t usually get that much attention. I’m glad people like you are here to track those changes.
The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
Can’t have nice things
Right? What was it hurting to have some people believe this. Just let people enjoy things, does it really matter whether the shrimp color vision thingy was true or not?
That dress was fucking white and gold, and I’ll go to my grave believing the black and blue one was some sort of conspiracy.
Dammit
Even “sedan” is pushing it. Car, big car, unnecessarily big car, dumpster fire.
unnecessarily big car
Very true.
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I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.
But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).
There are generations. Like the same body style for several years.
Your husband and I could be best friends because I also have poor hearing and can do the same thing with motorcycles with a pretty high success rate.
We can sit in the same room not talking. Then one of us will think the other said something and yell “Huh?”. The other will loudly reply “What?”. Then that’ll go on for several minutes until we both smile and nod.
😂 that happens sometimes with TV voices. He’ll think I said something and I just look at the TV like…“Yeah that was them.” He does wear hearing aids, which work well 95% of the time. That 5% when they don’t work can be ROUGH.
I consider myself hard of hearing, but only at certain frequencies. I can hear lower (bass) sounds much better than mid range sounds; high pitch sounds hurt like a mother!
I have a very bad sense of smell - not sure if it’s technically anosmia but if not it’s close - but the few things I can smell, I can smell very well and usually identify pretty quickly.
I can recognize Chargers, Explorers, and Crown Vics pretty easily.
Whee - oooo! Whee - oooo!
last time I was in vancouver they had ~2014 dodge caravans too which are absolute dogshit, my family had one for some time. It looks especially dumb with the ramming thing on the front
Imagine being envious of someone with basic memorization skills.
Where’s the envy? Also it’s more about being interested in the subject matter than inherent ability.
I get what you’re saying in terms of “anyone can do this if they’re willing to devote enough time to a specific / niche subject matter” but I think you’re stating it somewhat reductively (and your tone seems questionable but that could just be a textual communication issue).
I find that I have poor rote memorization skills but that I’m very good at conceptual reasoning using lots of different information from very tangentially related subject matters. So I don’t know too much about chemistry, metalworking, and sewing on their own, but I know enough to pick out the right fabric, thread, jewelry findings, and dye, and what order to use them in to get a pretty cool result.
I think that ability actually somewhat necessarily comes at the expense of my rote memorization capabilities. To put that in plainer language, I think a lot of people can be in love with the world as a whole or deeply in love with just a few parts of it (me being the former). And while the important thing in the end is that you find something out there in the world to love and accept yourself for loving it, it’s also not maladaptive to see someone else do something cool and think,“I might not have time in my life to pick up that skill, but I bet it feels good to be able to do it.” And who knows? Maybe if they’re envious enough they’ll make time in their life to learn how to do the cool thing.
I’m very jealous. My memory sucks.
My partner is like this with birds xD
me: “Oh look, a starling!”
him: “Yep, it’s a bird.”
(though to be fair, he’s getting better at it :P)
Look, Raymond. A yellow crested warbler.
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Yes. This was it for me. I spent enough time in traffic that I just memorized which car was which.
If I go out driving now, which is fairly rare, I’m always going, I don’t recognize that car, what is it ??
And the cycle continues.
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It’s one of those rare 5 cylinder in-line engines with a 3.6L displacement.
Oooooooo
Never thought that using public transportation and riding a bike would come with the perk of not having to learn these things. 😅
I ran into someone and I said “How’s the Corolla Cross?” and she looked at me shocked and said “No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?” I was like “Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla.”
Basically, I would’ve written autistic guide books on local ferns if I’d been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain’t found a new bird in a while.
Saw a presentation of someone visting remote islands and discovering new types of ferns. Talked about contributing to the the open database of ferns: https://fernphy.github.io/ Never too late!
Isn’t this the case for any hobby or niche field?
The difference is that we all come into contact with and have to deal with cars on some level whereas in case of a niche hobby people may not even know it exists. Cars are such a central part of modern life that it feels weird that some people seem to have occult insight into it that others lack. It’s both a niche hobby and not niche at all at the same time, in a way.
Cars are such a central part of modern life
I think that depends a lot on where you live. The vast majority of my colleagues and friends don’t have cars, but we live in large UK cities, so life is easily doable without a car. Even a friend who used to have a car ended up selling it, bc he just didn’t use it enough to justify the costs.
I don’t have a car either, not even a license. There are still cars all around me and most likely you as well.
I pity y’all, the roads are so beautiful to me.
I live to go walking with my friend who knows a lot about botany. Where I see ‘field’ or ‘shoulder of road’ she sees all different kind of flowers and showers me with their Latin names.
In cities in like that but with history and architecture. It’s such a treat to hear people with a differently tuned set of goggles and a passion about a particular topic.
I dated a girl whose dad owned an antiques store. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a fucking trip. She knew what everything was and almost exactly what they would be valued at.
The only downside to dating her was that she would do things like hanging up an authentic “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer” poster from the 1930s over her mantel. It was hard to convince her that people wouldn’t really appreciate the historicity of such artifacts.
Yeah oof. Nazi memorabilia should just be donated to a museum in almost every case.
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
Always found cats names on their collars myself. Where do you live that they’re putting them on the back? And why is that helpful?
You’ve never seen a cathole tattooed with its name, you’ve never lived
I’m pretty good at that and I don’t know why. I guess I just passively pay a lot of attention to car makes/models for some reason.
For me, it’s fun being able to identify things correctly. I was playing that color HEX code guessing game for a bit on !dailygames@lemmy.zip, and it’s the same feeling.
My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it’s just a regular looking sedan
