{"id":44088,"date":"2026-04-20T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=44088"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:19:38","slug":"44088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=44088","title":{"rendered":"15 Apr 26!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove a fairly new (2025?) Ford Expedition to Belgrade for Avis. \u00a0Instead of all of those buttons on the steering wheel for cruise, heat, lane controls, radio, and so on, it had two touch pads, basically unlabeled.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Day26041501.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you touch them the choice of controls comes up on the screen above the steering wheel. \u00a0However, your choice doesn\u2019t stay in place and when you try to touch the activate button in the middle of the touch pad the indicator on the screen floats off to some other choice. \u00a0Please note there is a map app running on carplay in the middle, and another map app from Ford running on the screen behind the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just getting into a car to drive isn\u2019t easy anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove a fairly new (2025?) Ford Expedition to Belgrade for Avis. \u00a0Instead of all of those buttons on the steering wheel for cruise, heat, lane controls, radio, and so on, it had two touch pads, basically unlabeled. When you touch them the choice of controls comes up on the screen above the steering wheel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,5,69,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic","category-humor","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2026","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44098,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44088\/revisions\/44098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}