New car, and action #4
Jan. 23rd, 2026 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujWe bought a car! It is a Kia EV 6. I spent about 20 minutes sitting in the driver seat playing with my new toy. I have added myself as a driver profile. Unlike the Tesla you can't have an infinite number of them, it looks like there are only 2 plus a guest. Haven't tried out the guest setting yet. Valerie and I will be 90% of the drivers, so it makes sense for us to have the profiles. We will just rename "Jeff", who is apparently the former owner. We also need to acquire a third key, because when Ken does drive, he wants to have the key. Unfortunately the fob is enormous, and he may be sad because he has some special key carrying case that he constructed himself and I don't think this will fit.
It seems to have a navigation mode built in. I don't know if we need to pay extra for this, and therefore if it's going to become disabled sometime. I failed to find car play, but maybe I don't need it if built-in navigation exists. Anyway, we used it because we went to another stand on the overpass thing with sign made out of individual three-foot-high letters that said "WE STAND W/ MN ICE OUT". Lots of happy tooting. A few long honks which we assume are unhappy tooting, but we are far enough away we can't see thumbs up or down or middle fingers. We had some American flags that we were waving (it's our flag too!), but my hands get very cold, so even though I had good gloves, I needed to also put them in my pockets and let other people wave the flags.
It seems to have a navigation mode built in. I don't know if we need to pay extra for this, and therefore if it's going to become disabled sometime. I failed to find car play, but maybe I don't need it if built-in navigation exists. Anyway, we used it because we went to another stand on the overpass thing with sign made out of individual three-foot-high letters that said "WE STAND W/ MN ICE OUT". Lots of happy tooting. A few long honks which we assume are unhappy tooting, but we are far enough away we can't see thumbs up or down or middle fingers. We had some American flags that we were waving (it's our flag too!), but my hands get very cold, so even though I had good gloves, I needed to also put them in my pockets and let other people wave the flags.
