Okay, that's definitely quirkier than the Fiat X1/9 I drove for a while in the late 1980s -- on that one you had to fiddle with it a bit to make it go into its "raise and lower the headlights, at two different speeds" infinite loop, so it seldom happened by accident.
Automotive electronics do odd things. I had a 1978 Pontiac Catalina that one day decided that instead of sounding the horn, pressing the horn button would light the dome lamp at half strength and make a curious buzzing sound in the dashboard. This was deemed a Too Expensive To Trace electrical mystery, until my sister's boyfriend -- she was dating an auto mechanic at the time -- got the oldest old-timer at his shop to give him a clue about a similar car that had been brought in for a similar problem. Without looking, the older mechanic said, "clock fuse". And yes, that was what fixed my car's horn even though the horn and the dome light are on different fuses and my car didn't even have a clock in it.
Of course, now we have to hear from the folks who drive British cars, eh?
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The gas meter didn't. Most of the time. But if you put the gear in reverse and pushed the brake pedal, then it indicated quite right.
And speaking of gears; if you were too enthusiastic about voming from third to second gear, you were likely to switch on the windshield wipers.
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Automotive electronics do odd things. I had a 1978 Pontiac Catalina that one day decided that instead of sounding the horn, pressing the horn button would light the dome lamp at half strength and make a curious buzzing sound in the dashboard. This was deemed a Too Expensive To Trace electrical mystery, until my sister's boyfriend -- she was dating an auto mechanic at the time -- got the oldest old-timer at his shop to give him a clue about a similar car that had been brought in for a similar problem. Without looking, the older mechanic said, "clock fuse". And yes, that was what fixed my car's horn even though the horn and the dome light are on different fuses and my car didn't even have a clock in it.
Of course, now we have to hear from the folks who drive British cars, eh?