Comment on How does a car cigarette lighter work?
hark@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s cool how elegant the design is that it automatically ejects when it’s done heating up without needing a sensor and digital system to read and handle that action. It’s also cool how a feature designed solely to light a cigarette has been adapted to power all sorts of other things. I wonder if these ports will be obsoleted in favor of only having USBs.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 month ago
My electric car only has USB ports and no cigarette lighter, so I bet you’re right about it being replaced.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My first GPS came with a cigarette lighter plug.
My next one came with a USB cable along with a cigarette lighter to USB adapter.
I think most these days now come with a USB cable but no adapter.
I’m now starting to see some devices come with USB-C cables.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 month ago
You’re still buying GPS devices? What’s wrong with your phone?
Not judging - genuinely curious why some people buy them.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bought my first one probably 20 years ago at this point.
Bought my second one probably 10 years ago when traveling abroad and it was more reliable and cheaper to have offline maps of the countries I was going to.
We like to travel to places that often have spotty cellular coverage, if at all.