Reversing lines vanished! (fixed)

Interesting. I guess the logic is that if the hatch isn't closed properly then the camera may not be pointing exactly where the lines are calibrated for. Although in your case it wouldn't have made a difference but the software doesn't know that since it doesn't know the actual position of the hatch, just that it isn't completely closed.

I knew that boot means trunk but in the U.S. we only use the word trunk if it's not a hatchback. We don't really have a name for that area on a hatchback, we normally just refer to it as the cargo area. Of course technically the trunk is cargo area also, but we just call it the trunk just like you call it the boot.

 

How about the "hatch"?

 

I don't know, in a non-hatchback I would say that I keep my booster cables in the trunk, but in a hatchback I don't think I would say that I keep them in the hatch. I'd probably just say I keep them in the back of the car I guess. Maybe some people say they keep things in the hatch I just don't remember hearing it used that way. Is there a difference if the rear seats are up or not? If the seats are folded down would you still call the cargo area the hatch? I think my point is there is no rule that I know of for a hatchback, unlike for a non-hatchback where it's pretty universal to refer to that storage location as the trunk.

 

If the back seats are up it's a hatch, and when they're down it's the Hatch.

 

Or the megahatch?

 

Huh: North American version of the Owner's Manual refers to it as the "back door", and the term "hatch" isn't anywhere.

Then there's the Repair Manual: it incessantly refers to the engine compartment as the "engine room". When I hear that I think of going through a "hatch", down a ship's ladder to a grated gangway over the bilge, seeing a bunch of "oilers" loitering in greasy coveralls.

 

A hatch is a kind of door, not an area. So cargo area is a more accurate term. I'm not fond of the NA OM's term "back door." That would mean I have three back doors. Two is enough.

Remember the Japanese manuals of 30-40 years ago? They were real puzzlers.

 

Maybe the lines are really on the road and the camera on the rear door/hatch/boot lid/portal cover/aperture filler was too high to see them

 

I still remember fondly, the Honda Shop Manual instruction to tap something with a "prastic hummer".

There was another instruction, maybe some carburetor adjustment, where tabs needed to be seated. Trouble was, they assigned the tabs the designations "B" and "C", and the game was on. The instruction was hopelessly/hilariously fractured, with "see" "seated" "C", intermixed with "be" and "B".

Once again I've veered hopelessly off-topic, apologies to @The Professor.

 

Nope, just one. The other two you're thinking of are the "rear doors".

-Chap

 

Today I learned yet another U.K./U.S. spelling difference related to cars that I wasn't aware of, when I misspelled "license" as "licence" and my spell check didn't correct it. Of course our U.K./Australia/NZ friends have a different opinion on which one needs correction although I am not sure about Canada, I am guessing both spellings are used there?

So far I know of:

boot/trunk
bonnet/hood
kerb/curb
licence/license

 

Licence and license. This confusion is so similar to practice and practise that once you've learned the difference for one, you instantly know it for the other! Licence is a noun, license is a verb. Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional driving licence, but the DVLA must license you to drive.

 

Interesting, similar to how you use kerb as a noun and curb as a verb. In the U.S. we use the spellings curb and license for both noun and verb.

 

I suspect the list could go on for a long time. I didn't see flashlight/torch

We do use flyover for an especially large and high overpass such as where major highways intersect.

We seem to use both around this area, but don't have many. Some people don't seem to know that you're supposed to yield to traffic in the circle when you're entering it and so they sometimes stop inside the circle which can make quite a mess. Even though they have "YIELD" signs at the entries.

 

Here - Licence / License - hey, flip a coin. Nobody knows, so it's random(ly wrong). Should be Licence -noun, license - verb. But the (Australian) Macquarie Dictionary explains it (as the British do) - finishing with "... We struggle on with one spelling for the noun and the other for the verb. Good luck with it! ...".

...

crosswalk / pedestrian crossing/zebra crossing - AUSSIE - either the 2nd or 3rd.
detour / diversion - AUSSIE - DETOUR
overpass / flyover - AUSSIE - OVERPASS
parking lot / car park - AUSSIE - CARPARK (ONE OR 2 WORDS)
rest area / lay-by - AUSSIE - REST AREA
sidewalk / pavement - AUSSIE - FOOTPATH
stoplight / traffic lights - AUSSIE - TRAFFIC LIGHTS
taxi stand / taxi rank - AUSSIE - TAXI RANK (MAINLY)
traffic circle / roundabout - AUSSIE - ROUNDABOUT

Yield / Give Way - AUSSIE - GIVE WAY