$On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:07:03 -0700, Scott en Aztl‡n $
Earlier this week, I saw a Corvette (not a 2005) whose driver had Cadillac disease. You know, driving along with a turn signal blinking. He was in the leftmost lane with his left turn signal on.
Corvette Demographics 2797I don't actually buy this argument. I don't think the average car driver is tooling down the road thinking that they can follow closer, or wait later to brake because they have ABS brakes...
$It's been around a while. My 95 Caprice had it. It's really kind of $handy for those RARE times when the signal gets left on. All cars $should have em, although I would never mandate it.
I like some of the things that have been added to cars to help save drivers from their own stupidity or lack of attention, as long as they're in the area of safety. ABS, traction control, stability control; to me, these are good things.
What cars don't need are things to help allow drivers to turn their brains off. Automatic headlights which come on when it gets dark, for instance; if you're too stupid to know it's dark out, or too stupid to realize that you need your lights on when it's dark out, you're too stupid to be driving.
Automatic warnings about Cadillac disease aren't quite that bad, but still, they're closer to that end of the scale than to the safety end. -- Silver, perpetually searching for SNTF------------------------------ `--------------------------------------' a vaguely phallic .signature
