As we've plodded ahead in time, cars have begun to cater to our desire to always be sitting on the couch in our living rooms. I'm not talking about high-end luxury cars, which have always offered any option if you are willing to pay the price. I'm talking about regular normal-people cars.
The seats are cushier, the radio has steering wheel remote-control, there are jacks for the iPod, seat warmers, individual air-conditioning, DVD players in the back, and so on. In my opinion, though, one thing they haven't been able to get right is the cup holders.
It's clear that we want cup holders -- there are about fifty in every new car now. There was an ad a few years ago for some car that had an animation that showed the cupholders first, and then the car being built around them. What the car companies haven't been able to do, however, is get together with the bottle and mug makers to figure out what size they should be. The first cup holders were made for the standard 12-ounce can. But then our coffee obesession started, and even the smallest of the grande latte cups and mugs didn't come close to fitting. So the car manufacturers made larger cupholders. Meanwhile, the mug manufacturers started making odd-shaped tapered mugs that fit the 12-ounce can holders, sort-of. But now they're too small, and too top-heavy for the current holders. Our cars have a variety of variable-sized cup holders, but except for a few specific bottles, it doesn't really fit anything right.
The truth is, thinking about this as I drive is just a distraction from kids who have learned their reasoning skills from Jon Stewart ("Really, Emma? Really?") arguing about inane song lyrics in the back seat.
Are we there yet?
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