The New Subaru Outback Taillights Hide A Handy Ruler

The 2026 Subaru Outback includes immoderate adventure-friendly upgrades, for illustration an upsized rear cargo abstraction for packing much gear. Of course, that other room is imaginable acknowledgment to the Outback's boxier exterior, which has been polarizing, to opportunity nan least. Yet nan trade-off betwixt adding room and removing nan Outback's traditional, wagon-esque style astatine slightest provides a measurable benefit. It's a different communicative pinch nan caller taillights, which besides activity arsenic a measuring device. 

There are decidedly regular graduations crossed nan taillights that make them look a spot for illustration rulers. Plus, you could usage them for Subaru-type things for illustration measuring a food you caught while camping aliases comparing nan size of screws astatine nan hardware store, and gardeners tin move to them to thief abstraction retired their plantings. However, nan markings aren't spaced retired decently for either inches aliases centimeters. Then there's nan truth that nan taillights person a gentle curve to them wherever they move nan area into nan bodyside of nan vehicle. The taillight markings don't look to compensate for this, truthful you can't really usage nan full magnitude of nan lights for measuring, either.

Now, nan Outback is scheduled to spell connected waste later this year, and astatine that point, you could conceivably return retired your ain ruler, use it to nan taillight markings, and memorize really they comparison to your preferred strategy of measurement earlier you put them to use. Or possibly it's clip for nan world to person to Subimeters.

It's awesome that nan Outback has a built-in ruler retired back, but that's simply 1 of nan caller hidden features from Subaru. There are besides notable upgrades to nan Outback's precocious driver-assistance features, for example, that you won't announcement until you usage them — aliases request them. One of nan astir invited is Subaru's hands-free driving assist technology. For nan first clip ever, you'll beryllium capable to aviator immoderate Outback trims, connected immoderate highways, while enjoying Level 2 autonomy that lets you return your hands disconnected nan instrumentality (but still requires changeless driver supervision). 

Another caller ADAS tech that whitethorn alert nether nan radar for astir drivers is Subaru's Emergency Stop Assist pinch Safe Lane Selection. If nan driver has immoderate benignant of aesculapian situation and stops acknowledging warnings from different Subaru ADAS systems, this caller characteristic tin propulsion nan car complete to nan enarthrosis of nan roadworthy and automatically notify first responders.

There are immoderate capacity boosters hidden nether nan Outback's tegument arsenic well. Head for nan unsmooth worldly to observe nan enhanced all-wheel thrust strategy that tin trim instrumentality rotation and connection amended stableness connected nan curves, and erstwhile you request to activate X-Mode, you tin now usage a convenient move mounted connected nan steering wheel. Hidden aliases not, these are each yet much reasons to emotion a Subaru.

This mightiness look for illustration an off-the-wall question, but you cognize we wouldn't inquire if location weren't different vehicles pinch built-in rulers. And location are. In fact, immoderate of nan best-selling vehicles successful nan state travel pinch existent built-in rulers intelligibly marked for U.S. and metric measurements. We're talking astir midsize and full-size pickups, and much specifically, those fitted pinch multipurpose tailgates. 

The tailgates from Ford, Chevrolet, and GMC tin beryllium quickly configured successful galore different ways to meet your needs, from opening only sections of nan gross astatine a clip to deploying integrated bedsteps. They tin besides beryllium arranged to shape level activity surfaces, benignant of for illustration stand-up desks, and these do so travel pinch molded-in rulers. It makes a small much consciousness here, arsenic it's easier to ideate personification rolling up to a worksite successful a pickup and needing to measurement and trim a 2x4 than doing nan aforesaid successful a caller Outback.

Ruler-equipped tailgates are disposable connected nan Chevrolet Silverado and Colorado, nan GMC Sierra and Canyon, and nan Ford F-150 and Ranger but not nan Ram 1500, which is possibly amended known for tailgates that tin alert unfastened while you're driving. It has to make do pinch a ruler hidden beneath nan beforehand halfway console, wherever you tin besides find molded-in mathematics devices for illustration a protractor, a fewer mathematical formulas, a floor plan for converting fractions to decimals, and more. It each adds up to a bully advantage for pickup owners.