On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 11:08:13 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> > Nowadays a 2004 is practically an antique.
>> > Each year cars can do more and more.
>> > I think a lot of the modern features are worthless,
>> > who needs 8 cup holders? But the new safety features
>> > are a big bonus, it's good to know when you're drifting
>> > out of lane,

You don't do any long distance driving, five miles is your limit. I've
seen cars drifting in and out of lane on the interstates all the time,
especially at night when they are nodding off at 75 MPH.

>> Isn't that what your eyes are for?

You nod off with your eyes open... duh

>> > or there's black ice.

>> I don't need the car to tell me about that either.

You'll never know you've hit a stretch of black ice, you'll already be
dead.

>You're right. There's no point in inventing any technology to
>make our lives easier and safer.
>
>I'm going back to walking everywhere I go. I'll have to give my mother
>a couple of day's notice when I visit her, and find some sort of hostelry
>halfway in between (which I think would be somewhere inside the
>Detroit city limits). It's all good, though.
>
>Cindy Hamilton