Well, I'll spare you the full rant, but I think it's already creating large
group of people who cannot read a map, who cannot find their way from one
place to another without a machine telling them where to turn, and who will
follow the machine into oblivion rather than use their own wits. We actually
have a road in my town with a sign that says "STOP! Your GPS is WRONG! Road
closed in winter!" Yet, every couple of weeks, some half-wit in an SUV with a
GPS has to be towed out of there anyway.
I've managed to navigate all over the United States and most of Europe without
the aid of a machine to tell me when and where to turn. The next generation
is going to be immobilized when their GPS breaks and they're more than 10
miles from home. They won't know how to read a map. They won't have paid
attention to how they got where they are, because they're used to having a
machine tell them what to do.
I'm no luddite when it comes to computer technology, but I don't want to
surrender my independence to it. And it's not the machines themselves that I
really dislike, it's that they are being built into cars as a standard piece
of equipment. I think it's fine if someone wants to use a GPS, but I don't,
and I don't want it as part of any trim package in my car. The last time I
bought a car, I actually refused one model because the GPS was "standard." Of
course, since I also won't buy an automatic, my choices are getting pretty
limited, anyway.
-Mike Eldred
Wilmington, VT
Subject: Re: [Mgs] MG6 Review
From: arundell@ghs.com.au
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:39:12 +1000
CC: paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk; mgs@autox.team.net
To: redscirocco@hotmail.com
Why is that Mike? I love Sat-navs when traveling in unfamiliar territory.
Murray Arundell
Brisbane Australia
On 27/03/2011, at 11:05 AM, Mike Eldred wrote:
Interesting - thanks for the link. I wish they could have provided a few
more
shots of the dash and instruments, though. ;)
I wonder if we'll ever see an MG in the U.S. again?
I do hate to see those damn Sat Navs in every new car, though.
Mike Eldred
Wilmington, VT
From: paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:17:15 +0000
Subject: [Mgs] MG6 Review
http://www.mg-rover.org/articles/1/1097/mg6_road_test_review/index.htm?
I have been expecting that because SAIC can't use the Rover name the MG6 is
really going to be more like a Rover than an MG, as MG saloons have always
been performance versions of the Rover variant. This review does seem to
confirm that, although because a number of aspects of the design
particularly
the handling have been done at Longbridge and not China the end result is
somewhere between what one might expect of an MG had the company had both
names. Having seen it in the 'flesh' I was surprised how good the rear 3/4
view looked (especially view 12) as it's where so many designers run out of
inspiration, not unlike a performance Merc (which may on may not be a good
thing). Less so the front, which is pretty generic (indeed similar to the
new
Honda Accord) and has no trace at all of the MG grille which has always
been
the case previously.
PaulH.
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