I have a new car–I got it this past summer. It’s still very new to me, though, because I don’t drive it much. I may have mentioned that I walk to my job every day, which means among other things I’m still figuring out how to work the audio system in my car. It has Pandora, though, which is cool: I can pair the car to my cellphone via Bluetooth, and control Pandora on my ‘phone via the car’s dashboard, so I always have music I like playing in the car.

My car has a backup camera with superimposed distance markers on it, so I can back right up to something without touching it. This is great for scaring the bejesus out of the person sitting in a parked car behind me when I’m parallel parking. And the camera also gives me a great view of the expression on their face!

There’s another camera in the right-hand rearview mirror that comes on when I signal for a right turn, that shows me everything along the right side of my car, also with distance markers on it. This is really good, because it means I don’t run over a woman with a baby in a jog stroller who’s overtaking me on the right. (If you’ve ever driven in Atlanta traffic, you know that it isn’t hard for a woman with a baby in a jog stroller to overtake you.) You can also turn on the right-hand rearview camera manually, if you’re going straight ahead but you want to check out the woman with a baby in a jog stroller anyway, without turning on the turn signal.

The camera view is displayed on a screen on the dashboard, and it’s full color and fairly high resolution. It’s a gorgeous picture, actually, especially around the magic hour right before and after sunset, but very attractive at other times of day. I could just drive around for hours looking at the dashboard display of the right-hand rearview camera. You’d be surprised how good you get at steering by watching the lane markers behind you.