Okay, neither do I. But I'll bet a lot of you remember a time before cars were mostly computers. On my first car, the starter was about the only thing electric, let alone electronic. On my current car, you quite literally can't operate it without the help of a little brain. No, not that little brain.
So it should have come as no surprise when I got into the car awhile back and saw this:
And how do I know what new program was loading? Cylon? Terminator? Didn't Stephen King write a whole story about this? Someday I may not be able to escape from my Escape. It's the carpocalypse.
I suppose the survivors will have to go back to the crank start.
Skynet is already here.
ReplyDeleteOh, of that I have no doubt. It's why I try not to insult computers out loud, unless I'm in the middle of a deep woods somewhere without my cell phone.
DeleteROFL Mark, I remember the crank. That's how you started the family car when I was a child. Not only the family car, but the cars that my two older brothers had. I'll take the new technology every time. If I ever buy a new car it will have that back up camera in it. Drive on!
ReplyDeleteOh, that backup camera. I took it because it came with the car--swore I'd never use it. Now I wouldn't be without one!
DeleteI'm seventy and just bought my first car with a push-button start. The whole vehicle creeps me out, from the auto-headlights (which I admit I needed -- carried jumper cables just for that) to the backup camera (just weird). When I get one where I don't have to watch the road because it will stop without me, I'm going to get out and walk.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much the way I feel! Except for the backup camera--once I got used to it, I loved that. I don't know how I'll react to the push-button start, but I'm not a fan of the idea. The irony is that my first experience with a push-button start was one of our fire trucks--which is a 1965 model. Everything old is new again.
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