 Who is to blame? (1)
| Don't you dare drive even one more meter! |
Something about driving is becoming increasingly 'antiseptic'. What times those were, when you could take a certain risk yourself. Who spoiled it for us? Whenever accident figures rise somewhere, regulations
are tightened there.
Instead of training people better. In this way, we increasingly adapt to the most inept among us. My favorite S-curve has now also undergone such an 'improvement'. If only they knew what speeds it used to
handle.
Of course, there was a point far before the curve where you could see this road perfectly. Some idiots didn't do that and crashed. We always got through without any accidents. Why do we have to pay for it
now?
The software is even worse. It sometimes finds itself in a kind of preventive obedience and often overshoots the mark. In the past, if the engine failed, you could escape from a railroad crossing. Second gear,
start and release the clutch.
No matter where you stopped and it could become dangerous, you could always move forward a few meters. This is no longer possible because a few idiots mistakenly started with a gear engaged, panicked,
and caused an accident.
And there are lawyers, mainly in the US, who earn their money by suing companies for millions. And even if only one settlement is reached, they will receive their share. The companies that paid are drawing
their conclusions, and so the competition too.
The operating instructions are overflowing with warnings. Sometimes it's difficult to find what you're actually looking for. Basically, most cars are completely unsuitable for short-term rental. But isn't that also a
lack of security?
Everyone knows that you can only shift from R to D if you also press the foot brake. This reminds me of much earlier times, when there was still the unsynchronized first gear. Meanwhile, some cars even had
a synchronized reverse gear.
What a joy it is to be able to shift into first gear at the end of the reverse gear, albeit with a certain amount of caution for the clutch. It couldn't be easier to make a flowing movement. That's real driving, away
from all the digital stuff.
This stupid tire pressure monitoring system. The warning flash of each of these diodes is set to half bar, the numbers next to them to whole bars. It may be that one wheel does not flash at 2.1 bar and the
other does at the same value. And it maintains this condition even when the tire heats up to 2.2 bar.
| Some things you don't want to know too precisely. |
As if the world would collapse because of half a bar less. Please bring back the old system without sensors in the tires! And I also don't want the speedometer unit on the right to switch over in order to
announce that I have just turned the windshield wipers on or off.
No wonder cars are becoming increasingly expensive, with so much unnecessary effort involved. After all, this message also has to be translated into many languages, and the translation then has to be
checked, which is expensive. Do things like this actually allow conclusions to be drawn about the programmers or their bosses?
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