This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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    4 months ago

    My electric car only has USB ports and no cigarette lighter, so I bet you’re right about it being replaced.

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      4 months ago

      My first GPS came with a cigarette lighter plug.

      My next one came with a USB cable along with a cigarette lighter to USB adapter.

      I think most these days now come with a USB cable but no adapter.

      I’m now starting to see some devices come with USB-C cables.

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        4 months ago

        You’re still buying GPS devices? What’s wrong with your phone?

        Not judging - genuinely curious why some people buy them.

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          4 months ago

          Bought my first one probably 20 years ago at this point.

          Bought my second one probably 10 years ago when traveling abroad and it was more reliable and cheaper to have offline maps of the countries I was going to.

          We like to travel to places that often have spotty cellular coverage, if at all.

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            4 months ago

            Ah okay, I don’t go to places with spotty coverage all that often…and when I do I just download that part of Google maps onto my phone and it works just fine. And by “that part” I mean a significant part of my country! Small world here in Europe I guess.