What Is the Weird Gap Between Car Cup Holders For???

For years, I thought that narrow slot between my car’s cup holders was just a quirk of the plastic molding—a design afterthought with no real purpose. You know the one: that slim, slightly awkward divider sitting between two drink wells, too small for a phone, too odd for coins, and seemingly useless for anything at all.

I ignored it. Sometimes I’d continue reading …