Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Jason Marker)

Muanpare Wanpen/Shutterstock For many drivers, a vehicle’s automatic transmission — essentially the most common form of transmission nowadays, more’s the pity — has three settings: Drive, Park, and Reverse. Most automatic transmissions, nevertheless, can do rather more than simply go forward, go backwards, and stop your automobile from rolling into traffic. Some have lower gears you may shift into. Other, fancier transmissions have things like adjustable shift points or a hybrid “manumatic” clutchless shifting setting. And all of them, from the only old-school Turbo 350 to essentially the most advanced modern auto, share the identical useful setting: Neutral. Putting a…

JoshBryan/Shutterstock As a baby of the Nineteen Eighties who got here of age within the early ’90s, pop-up headlights are, in my mind, the height of automotive cool. All of the raddest, most interesting cars of my childhood — Lamborghinis, Starions, Trans-Ams, Fieros — had pop-ups. Heck, even mom cars like Honda Accords had ’em. I once even had the pleasure of owning a automobile with flip-up headlights, my 1990 Dodge Daytona. Unfortunately, you only don’t see pop-up headlights anymore, which is an actual bummer. Why, though? Why don’t cars have flip-up headlights anymore? Is it forgotten knowledge? Nah. Is it a…