Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Running on fumes


I've never actually run my car down to the point where the gas tank was completely empty. This weekend, I came pretty darn close. We went down to Southern California for a family get together and on the way home, were close enough to home that I wanted to fill up the tank once we made the exit from the freeway. There is a setting for the car that shows the range and about how many miles you have left in the tank and I watched this setting intensely as we neared closer to home. The mileage started going down and just as we got off the freeway, the range turned from showing numbers to a picture of the car needing to get filled up. How cute is that? I bet those car designers put that feature in just for me because they knew it would just tickle me to death.

3 comments:

Tandava said...

Hmm. Though really, you need the exactness of numbers most at the very end, so that's precisely the time I wouldn't want it to switch to a picture. Still, whatever makes you happy... :-)

Kimmy said...

Well see, that's the thing. There was nothing left...so instead of saying 2 miles or 0, they gave me a picture. =)

Calandria said...

that is a cute picture :)