Today’s 12-Volt Wet/Dry Vac with Car Adapter makes a great deal of the day and all, but does it really represent the most advanced car-cleaning technology available to us?  Don’t get me wrong, my car is going to be a lot less filthy once I plug that sucker into the cigarette lighter and go to town with the “crevice tool,” but handy as this vac is, I think humanity could be doing better.  After all, I don’t vacuum my home anymore; friendly disc-shaped robots handle that for me now.  So why haven’t they produced a Roomba for my car?

Now, regular readers of this blog know that I’m no stranger to taking our electrical engineers and, uh, roboticists to task for what I see as a critical failure to transform our world into a reality resembling “The Jetsons.”  But think about it this way:  We have robot vacuums.  We have car vacuums.  Why, then, do we not have robot car vacuums?  Are robots really too stupid to figure out how to use an upholstery brush?  Please!  Let’s give robots a little credit.  They already wash the outside of our cars at every corner gas station.  I think it’s time we turn ‘em loose on the interior, don’t you?