Cars Should Have Built-In Cell Phone Holders
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 5/3/2015 1:00:00 AM
Why don't cars have a place for your phone?
It took a long time for manufacturers to start making cup holders in car. Even after Drive Thru restaurants became popular in the 80s, there still weren't many cars that had cup holders. Some say the tipping point was when a woman sued McDonalds after a cup of hot coffee spilled on her lap. She didn't have a cup holder, so she just kept it where many people put their drinks back then... between her legs. What choice did she have? There wasn't anywhere else to put it.
Fast forward a few decades, and we have a similar problem. In spite of the fact that car makers have added support for connecting with phones by using Bluetooth, people still don't have a place to put the phone itself. This is a particularly difficult problem for people who use their cell phone for navigation, or as a music player.
A ton of companies make odd looking contraptions loaded with springs, clamps and suction cups to somehow give people a place to hold their phone. Most of them are a real pain in the neck to use and they look terrible, but because there's no alternative, we're stuck with them.
As George Carlin said "...that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know?"
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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