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Your automobile doesn't have a clock? A motorcycle?

Anyway, boredom is healthy, embrace it!!



> Your automobile doesn't have a clock?

Nope. But I have had cars with clocks, and they were unusable due to:

1. They stopped whenever the electrical system had troubles. So they were either behind or showed what was essentially a random time, because they needed constant resetting.

2. They were either woefully fast or slow.

3. They were digital (no hands) and small, requiring you to peer at them to read the time, taking eyes of the road for seconds.

4. They were accessible through a 'mode' button, which of course I never could remember how to scroll through the modes while trying to drive in traffic.

5. My analog watch I can read in 1/10th of a second with just a flick of the eye.

TL,DR: all clocks in cars suck. Not that they have to suck, they just do because of lousy human factors design.




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