Lexus has decided that it's a good idea to take a 380-horsepower LS 460L, a car that goes 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, and add a feature to it that allows it to parallel park itself with minimal driver interaction. You just regulate the speed, hands off the steering wheel and eyes off the mirror. You barely have to pay attention. Now I'm not against technology, I watch a very large and expensive TV. A lot. I am typing on a computer at this very minute. I listen to radio waves that come from outer space. But some technology is, to use a technical term, stupid. Comfort and convenience are fine, but I think it's a bad idea to take away those simple little skill tests that come up from time to time while driving a car in the real world. What's the ultimate goal here, to idiot-proof cars? How frightening is that?! It seems from my observations that it's already too easy to get and keep a driver's license. I see people almost daily, driving while reading the newspaper or, and this never ceases to amaze me, eating cereal from a bowl with a spoon. Do we really want to make someone like that feel like his car really IS paying attention?
If I've heard of a worse idea than this, I can't remember when.
3 comments:
That picture is funny as ... well you know what! Remember when new technology was a power antenna for your orange GTO? At least I think it was a GTO, my memory is getting worse than my vision. Great blog Ed! Come by and see Hercules one day!
Thanks, and I'd love to see Herc. I was wondering why I wasn't getting any comments, I thought I was supposed to get an email when someone left one, but I found a bunch of them sitting there in my 'dashboard' waiting for me to publish them. Oh well, I'm new at this, it's taking me a while...
(oh and the orange one was the '72 Chevelle)
I never thought that I could find a dog that would come close to being as good as Slick and Patch were but Herc is a great dog! You would like him. The red one was the GTO... right? It's the whole memory thing!
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