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Non-necessary technology:  not sure if this still exists, i think it does, but there used to be a dimmer switch for dashboard lights.  Only found that out coz i unwittingly brushed the brightness dial with my knee - hidden as it was under the dash.   At first, & at second, then for a long time i thought it was an electrical fault that my dash had suddenly dimmed to a barely readable level.  It was on the list for the mechanic to check out next time the car was in for a service. 

But then i was preparing to pick up a hot date, meaning you're going the full car-clean -  (up there with  mix-tape) -  down on my knees, vacuuming the carpet up all nice when, bugger-me-dead, i spied this dial for the dashboard lights.

Turned it back to 10 - problem solved. 

Thank fuck i found it before i made an idiot of myself in front of the mechanic ...

Why would you ever want to have a dial for dashboard brightness in the first place?  You're driving at night - 10 times more dangerous than daytime - yeah, right let's dial down control visuals to 4... for what?  ... mood ...? 

It's not safety, we can safely say that. Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Lights was moody - i'm betting even in that scenario, the interior lights were out but the dashboard lights were still at full brightness. 

According to this control dial, cunningly hidden away under the normal control panel, you could dim the brightness all the way down to zero, if that's your bent - driving blind.   Otherwise, why would you have it?

That's one example, there are others, its creeping meaninglessness - symptomatic of system-fog - first-thing-you-know-about-it, you're in-the-muddle-of-it ...