Luddite pt.5 (special automotive edition)

You know you're in trouble when your own car is smarter than you.

To be fair to myself, I've only owned my current car for about 3 months, and it takes time to learn some of the finer details. It simply never occurred to me that the air conditioning system knew I shouldn't be trying to fog up the windscreen by having recirculated air aimed at it.

Instead, I spent two days driving around in the belief that the "Max" button (which switches from outside air to recirculating the existing air, enabling rapid cooling) was broken. It wasn't until I was attempting to demonstrate it was broken to my father that I switched the vent direction (yet another dial) away from the windscreen, miraculously restoring function to the recalcitrant button.

All this because I tried adjusting the strength of the airflow before adjusting its direction, and not the other way around.

I preferred it when the car left it to me to figure out how not to fog up the windscreen. I could manage that.