"Whoa nice, a backup camera¹!"
¹backup cameras have been mandatory for over half a decade
THEY HAVE??
#i'm sorry they've WHAT#are you telling me that people now take their license test#in a car with a goddamn BACKUP CAMERA?#i'm torn between envy and fury#but i looked it up and apparently both the us and canada have required them since 2018???#i'm—
TRULY, I learned to drive in 2022, and all my instructors' cars had backup cameras. But then I started practising in my flatmate's Beetle (2000, no backup camera, also the interior ceiling was falling down, this is a THING with New Beetles), and had to learn from scratch how to reverse.
Which is obviously a valuable skill and it's better to have, but then I bought a 2014 Yaris with a backup camera, and promptly forgot how to reverse without it again.
