Power off button - how do you use it?

[whitex]

Every design choice had/has a utility or advantage in it (like having the tip of the wheel crests pointing to the air valves or even the raised headlights/lowered center nose so the pilot can see the road ahead better).

Except the tips of the wheel crests rotate over time on my Taycan. Porsche OEM wheels. Urban legend about the intended purpose, or bad quality design in current consumer cars?

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[f1eng]

Except the tips of the wheel crests rotate over time on my Taycan.

Too many max acceleration (or emergency braking) events! ? ? ?

 

[tchavei]

Except the tips of the wheel crests rotate over time on my Taycan. Porsche OEM wheels. Urban legend about the intended purpose, or bad quality design in current consumer cars?

Probably a tolerance issue.... and maybe also depends on how many times you inserted/removed the covers? There aren't as tight after extended use... like everything in this world

 

[DCYL725]

That's expected for Porsches, though. The key was also always on the door side for all Porsches before. Legend says it's that racers could turn on the car while getting in.

I think it was putting on the seat belt and starting the ignition at races like Le Mans. Left hand drive orientation would be right hand seat belt, left hand ignition.

 

[DCYL725]

Well you weren't wrong. In the old days, the races started with the pilots on one side of the tracking with the cars parked on the other side. On "go" they had to run across the track, jump into the car, start it and go. Ferdinand Porsche placed the the ignition on the left side so that when his pilot jumped into the car he wouldn't waste a hand movement putting the car into 1st gear and then turning the key. With the ignition on the left side, the pilot could jump in, depress the clutch, engage into 1st gear with his right hand while turning the key with his left hand. You would gain over a second doing it that way. Porsche always was very proud of none of its characteristics being just "visual". Every design choice had/has a utility or advantage in it (like having the tip of the wheel crests pointing to the air valves or even the raised headlights/lowered center nose so the pilot can see the road ahead better).

I thought it was seat belts first? Or it was sans seat belt back then. Wild!

 

[DCYL725]

Well you weren't wrong. In the old days, the races started with the pilots on one side of the track with the cars parked on the other side. On "go" they had to run across the track, jump into the car, start it and go. Ferdinand Porsche placed the the ignition on the left side so that when his pilot jumped into the car he wouldn't waste a hand movement putting the car into 1st gear and then turning the key. With the ignition on the left side, the pilot could jump in, depress the clutch, engage into 1st gear with his right hand while turning the key with his left hand. You would gain over a second doing it that way. Porsche always was very proud of none of its characteristics being just "visual". Every design choice had/has a utility or advantage in it (like having the tip of the wheel crests pointing to the air valves or even the raised headlights/lowered center nose so the pilot can see the road ahead better).

What’s the function of the light bar nowadays?

It just reminds me of robo cop.

A lot of Chinese Evs also copying the style.

 

[tchavei]

I thought it was seat belts first? Or it was sans seat belt back then. Wild!

Seat belts were for sissies back then ?

 

[tchavei]

What’s the function of the light bar nowadays?

It just reminds me of robo cop.

A lot of Chinese Evs also copying the style.

The official excuse might be something in line of "better visibility for other cars"

 

[BigBob]

Ha-ha, it never occured to me not to use the power switch.

I use it to power off. As much as anything else, it's a bit of a double check that i haven't left it in D and haven't pressed the brake into the hold position.

Hopefully i'm not the only person to have ever started getting out of a (proper) car without putting the hand brake on?

 

[whitex]

Probably a tolerance issue.... and maybe also depends on how many times you inserted/removed the covers? There aren't as tight after extended use... like everything in this world

Covers never removed (at least by me), car is 4 months old. Not something I care enough about to even attempt to fix though.

 

[whitex]

Hopefully i'm not the only person to have ever started getting out of a (proper) car without putting the hand brake on?

Nope, but even that doesn't require an off button with mildly cleaver engineering. In a Tesla for example, car will go into park if you unbuckle and lift your butt off the driver's seat. The seat and steering wheel move out of the way at the same time. The car shuts off once you exit and close the doors unless there are passengers in seats (Tesla included occupancy sensors for all 5 seats in my Model S'es, Porsche cheaped out and keeps on showing me red warning icons on the instrument cluster about rear passenger seatbelts not being buckled every time I start driving with no passengers on the back, which is 99.9% of the time).

 

[tigerbalm]

Except the tips of the wheel crests rotate over time on my Taycan. Porsche OEM wheels. Urban legend about the intended purpose, or bad quality design in current consumer cars?

I've always appreciated that my local Porsche Centre when replacing wheels/tyres without fail make sure to install the the caps pointing the correct way. I always just assumed it was an aesthetic thing – so was interesting to read that potentially it had a practical purpose too.

When I see a Porsche cap pointing the wrong way – I always looking judgingly at them ? .

I took a snap of my wheels yesterday during a drive – and after maybe 1,500 km since a wheel rotation – with plenty of spirited driving – they still point the same way.

Whew!

 

[tchavei]

Covers never removed (at least by me), car is 4 months old. Not something I care enough about to even attempt to fix though.

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