I'm afraid I'm with TC - how many people actually bother to look?
Not just generally stupid people either. Mrs Beest is no mug but when I first knew her in the late 1980s she showed me her camera - a rather nice little Ricoh rangefinder. It had a green dot on the aperture ring and another on the focus scale, and when both were selected, she insisted, the camera would provide automatic focus. No amount of explanation of depth of field and hyperfocal distance would shake her from this view, and we have a lot of out-of-focus pictures to prove it.
Back to cars, she's never grasped the function of cruise control, and never quite came to terms with the Verso's sixth gear. Fortunately our LEC's lights switch does have an OFF position, so I've trained her to use that rather than AUTO. And this is a woman with two scientific degrees; what the genuinely stupid do is anyone's guess.
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