Once upon a time ... the glove compartment
01/17/2025
At least in the original sense of the word. Because while the useful hinged box in front of the passenger seat still exists, it is hardly ever used for the purpose that once gave it its name. Of course not. Gloves have become superfluous in everyday traffic since the invention of steering wheel heating.
Today, the glove compartment is therefore mostly used for other purposes, for cooling food or holding canisters for interior fragrances. In the 1980s, it even had to make way for the first airbags, which did not yet know how to make themselves small. Car telephones even needed all the storage space until the third millennium.
Only racing drivers still predominantly sit behind the wheel with gloves - even though their cars often no longer have a glove compartment.
