Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box.
Otherwise it defeats the purpose of calling it a glove box. If gloves are not in this box it would be more accurate to describe that volume as a passenger compartment.
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Not thinking of many off the top of my head but I am sure there are many things called by an obsolete name.
Trunk of a car, maybe. Used to be a literal trunk (box) strapped to the car.
Filming someone. Or taping. No film/tape involved now.
"Floppy" disk icon for saving in PC apps. Youngsters probably wonder wtf that is.
There's probably a word for this.
That word would probably be either "skeuomorph" or "vestigial"