Question for Automatic stang owners
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#13
That sounds nice in theory, but in practice it has shown to mean little to nothing. Keeping stupid people from doing stupid things not only protects them but everyone else around them. Before all of these "helper gadgets" years ago, did we have less stupid people doing stupid things b/c they were better educated? Not at all. They were not better educated and there were no less stupid people.
Even those who are not "stupid" and are well educated on a particular subject will do something stupid every once and a while.
#14
+1 If a feature keeps someone else from crashing into me or keeps me from doing something stupid, then it's not all bad.
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Let me share a loosely related story. A rather long time ago I was getting into the car with my Dad to go home from . . . well, from where is irrelevant. I asked him if I could try to start the car up and he agreed. Big lurch forward because the car was in gear and the car was a 3-speed manual. I know that this incident had to have happened some time in the early 1950's, making me about six, maybe seven years old. "Both feet in" by my Dad, lesson taught, brief explanation given, lesson learned (etched on a brain cell?).
Are we required to assume that today's crop of new drivers has a poorer aptitude for learning the practical things of "immediate, right now importance" than the seven year old of fifty-odd years ago? If so, why is that a good thing?
Even those who are not "stupid" and are well educated on a particular subject will do something stupid every once and a while.
The mindset that is leading to "everybody needing to be protected from afar against everything at all times" is ultimately misguided.
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; 05-18-2009 at 06:57 AM.
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