The neat little features every new car should have by now

This story was first published in January 2018. Fewer things grind my gears more than the absence of a little feature that ought to be standard in cars by now. Here's the enormity of my quibbling faultfinding, though: I'm not here right now to go on about utterly crucial systems like lane-keep assistance and autonomous emergency braking. Those should absolutely be standard by now, but that's not where I'm at today.