I was one of the select few who had a Cadillac ELR. I actually liked that car - because I paid nowhere near "list" price and because it fit fine for a dad with 2 very young kids. My dog today? No way. At all.For your reading pleasure:
Are You A Person Who Needs Even Numbers On The Volume Dial? Turns Out, You're Not Alone
Ever wonder why you prefer to have an even number on the volume dial rather than leaving the TV's sound on, say, 73? While many write this quirk off as a minor OCD habit, our emotional ties to numbers may, in fact, be ingrained in our humanity. In…www.bustle.com
But the funniest thing about that car was the maximum volume on the stereo system. It was "63". Even showed that value on the screen. With a bit of research, I learned that the silicon used to measure the volume level had a 7 bit register. Really. That's some serious effort at bad UI design. But there it was, seemingly as logical as a Detroit UI engineer thought made sense.
I guess California taxes at least get you past "Let's represent the volume with an integer value from a 7 bit register." level quality.