How long have vehicles been in production, a hundred years now? Since the center console idea has come out and has been incorporated into just about every single vehicle design out there, and there is a major design flaw that never seems to be addressed: Your hand does not fit between the console and the seat.
I have actually panicked because I thought my hand was going to be stuck between the seat and the console, while I was driving yet. I had dropped a slice of tomato that was on my hamburger somehow in between the console and the seat of my truck. After a few quick swear words I tried to fish it out but as I squeezed my hand down to get the slice of tomato the opening got bigger before I could reach it and the tomato got further and further down the more I tried to reach for it, until I hit that tight spot of no return and my hand was so tightly wedged in there that I couldn't pull it out.
Now we could go into distracted driving and whatnot, but that's not what this article is about, it's about the serious design flaw of the seat or the console or how the two things work against each other. I can remember being 16 and having my first vehicle with the same sort of incident as the tomato, happening back at that age as well. I think it became a problem when bucket seats came out.
Did you know that it has become such a problem that there are things you can buy that other companies have made to help prevent stuff from falling in between the seat and console? It has become such a problem that people have actually tried to invent something to stop it from happening.
These car manufacturing companies have a serious design flaw in their vehicles, it's hard to clean, dangerous (if you are an idiot like me), and just plain stupid that it hasn't been addressed yet, fries can get stuck in there and rot and mold, and one day you may be out driving and think to yourself "What is that godawful smell?"
It's time they address this issue, it's not something new that has happened, it has been around for a long time, it's time someone did something with these Bad Designs.
Scott Goerz
