Which @#$& side of the car is it [Fuel Socket] on. [LWN.net]

Which @#$& side of the car is it [Fuel Socket] on.

Posted Oct 21, 2024 20:24 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Which @#$& side of the car is it [Fuel Socket] on. by Wol
Parent article: The long road to lazy preemption

The engine cover lever has always been on the driver's side IME (US). AFAIK, it has always been a physical by-cable latch; the fuel door meanwhile is now a button and electronic in newer cars. No idea what a Tesla does; probably electronic though given that everything else is.

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Which @#$& side of the car is it [Fuel Socket] on.

Posted Oct 22, 2024 8:13 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

The engine-hood lever is usually on the left side of a car because most cars have the driver sitting on the left, and given how rarely that lever is used there is no point in moving it to the right for the others because all that will achieve is to make building the cars more complicated. So in the UK it is on the passenger side, and in places like the USA and Germany it is on the driver's side.

We can probably count ourselves lucky, though, that in right-hand-side-driver cars the pedals aren't in reverse order.