So I'm riding with Nuriddin—an Uber driver—to the train station. We stop at a red light and he opens the passenger window. "Press the mirror at the top!" I don't get what he means and ask again. Yeah, you gotta push the mirror. At the top. So I press it and say, "Oh no! The electric control is broken! I do the same thing!" "No," he says, "there's no adjustment." I shut up. But a second later I can't hold back:
"My car is from 2001 and it has electric mirror adjustment. Your car is from 2016, so it definitely has it!" "No, I've looked everywhere—it doesn't exist." "You always adjust it with your hand?" "Yeah... I guess."
I won't let it go and start hunting for the control in the car. Found it!
The driver said it was just the window defrost, in case the glass fogs up. But I'd already figured out it had the adjustment built in, and promised to help him figure it out once we got there.
We arrived. I pressed that little knob at the top and it moved. The mirrors adjusted. Turns out it was a joystick with multiple degrees of freedom. Nuriddin was thrilled. This might have been the best moment of his night shift.
P.S. Here's a picture of the mirror control from the previous generation.
They added a new feature but lost it in the design.
I imagined how Skoda engineers would cry watching Nuriddin press their mirror from the passenger seat.
P.P.S. To the staff at Skoda dealerships and other car dealerships: please tell new owners about these kinds of details.