There’s an old country story about how to capture a wild hog. The gist of it is you do it one step at a time.
The first step is to put down some tempting food for the hog. He’ll be wary at first. But eventually, his hunger will overcome his caution and he’ll eat what’s been left out for him. If you keep leaving it out for him, his laziness will will cause him to come looking for the food you leave.
The next step is to put up a section of fence just behind where you leave the food. At first, this will unsettle the hog; he will approach warily. But he’s hungry and that soon overcomes his wariness and he pays the section of fence no more mind.
You can probably guess the next step. Another section of fence at a right angle to the first section. Then another on the other side, also at a right angle to the first. The pen is complete when the last section – the gate – comes down and the wild hog is now supper.
I got to thinking about the hog as I sat in the 2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge that got dropped off the other day for me to test drive and review. At first, I could not figure out how to test drive it – because I could not find the start button. I soon figured out why.
There isn’t one.
The XC40 just starts – more finely, automatically turns itself on – as soon as you get in and sit down. More finely, as soon as the Volvo senses it’s you. All you have to do is put it in Drive – and off you go.
It also automatically turns itself off when you park and leave it.
This is the next step following the one that got people used to not having to insert a key into a lock in order to start the engine. Instead, people got used to carrying around an electronic transmitter fob that they didn’t have to take out of their pocket or purse. All they had to do was push a button to start the engine.
Now they don’t even have to do that.
As people get used to that, they’ll be ready for the next and last step, which will be the elimination of the transmitter fob you still have to carry around in your pocket or purse – such a bother! 
Also such an expense.
Fobs cost many times more what keys do – even the “inexpensive” ones that “only” cost $40 or so. As opposed to the metal keys that can be cut at any hardware store for $10 or so. Some of the new fobs cost hundreds to replace – and for that reason it’s a good idea to make sure not to forgot that you left them in your pants pocket before your pants go through the wash.
So imagine what a relief it will be when you no longer have to worry about leaving your fob in your pants pocket and accidentally ruining it by running it through the wash. Imagine how convenient it will be when you don’t have to have or worry about losing a fob – or forgetting where you left it – anymore. When your car just recognizes it’s you and is ready to go as soon as you sit down. Imagine not needing that fob at all.
That sound you just heard is the gate of your pen closing behind you.
Once you no longer need a key – or a fob – your car is no longer started by you. Your are given permission to start it. Via connected electronics. Permission that – implicitly – can be rescinded by whomever controls the connected electronics. And that’s not you. As opposed to a set of keys, which must be physically taken from you in order to lock you out of your car.
And it all began when you got used to the convenience of not needing to insert a key into a lock and turn it in order to start the engine. Got used to the convenience of not having to manually insert a key into a lock to open the door.
Got used to just pushing a button.
For people who’ve gotten used to that, it will be an easy thing to get them used to not needing to carry around a fob to unlock their vehicle and start it. But they will still need to carry something to enable the car to know it’s them, won’t they? Maybe it’ll be an app on their “smart” phone, but that would mean having to lug around a phone, which is even larger than a fob and more expensive to replace.
Why not just carry around what you’re always carrying around anyhow?
That is, yourself?
Some cars – such as some current Genesis (Hyundai’s luxury division) vehicles – can already tell it’s you via your eyes (retinal scan) or via your fingerprint.
Just tap here.
But that still means having to do something – and what a bother that is! Imagine if you had a fob inside of you. A really small one that you’d never know was there once it was implanted. Only you could unlock and start your vehicle and you’d never have to worry about losing a fob ever again.
How convenient!
And that’s just how it’ll be sold.
Coming soon, to a dealer near you.
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Well Eric, your article made me think that there is more than one pen being erected around people.
I recently moved to Anchorage, AK and I am in an “affordable” apartment. Its an old building, but that is how Anchorage is, most buildings are old because it is expensive to build here.
The only “smart” device the building has is smart meters for the electricity.
What struck me was learning to remember to get my keys to go outside. Not a fob, a key. I had spent the previous year living on the outskirts of Wasilla and the previous 17 years to that living in the Southern Appalachian mountains. You just go outside and let the dogs out or whatever. You dont need to lock your door, much less remember to grab your keys on the way out.
So, first week Im living here, I forget my keys and am locked out, twice in a short amount of time My apartment door is unlocked as I have no fear any immediate neighbor will enter my abode, but the door to the hallway is secured by a secure locked door handle. It doesnt have a key card, fob, fingerprint, or any sort of fancy tech system. Old school lock. So after getting locked out a couple of times and having to wait like a device operator at a charge point for a neighbor to go in or out the door so I could get back in sucked donkey balls.
I also look around the apartment and see other old school things I like, like my thermostat. It’s an old simple mechanical thermostat. It isn’t a smart device that I need to download an app to operate. Nor can it be hacked to turn my heat down.
None of my appliances are connected to the internet. I cannot pull up an app on my sail fawn to see if I have milk or not in the fridge. If I could it would be to see if I have enough beer. But that isnt even needed as if I think I might be low on beer, I will just buy more because I am confident it will get consumed long before it could go bad anyways.
But that is just me. What happens when food shortages happen and the .gov can see in your fridge?
We already know those smart electricity meters are meant to limit of energy remotely. I don’t have to worry about air conditioning here but what about grandma in SE Tennessee?
How many people now have smart locks for their front doors, internet connected thermostats, security cameras, smart TVs, etc that they purchased themselves only to serve for their own digital pens?
Morning, J!
I regularly lose/forget where I left my keys, too. One solution is to make sure to have several spares – easy and cheap when they’re just keys. Like you, we live in an area where it’s not necessary to lock things up, so it’s rarely an issue regardless.The electric company did install a “smart” meter – we never even knew it was coming. But it doesn’t matter because we control our appliances and even if the power goes off, it’s ok because we don’t need most of them to have the necessaries. A wod stove is a wonderful thing!
I find myself irritated by devices, especially those that nudge and parent. Our fridge beeps at you if you leave the door open longer than it likes; I intend to disable that when I find the time…
I knew it! I freaking KNEW it! Virtually every comment I made on YT addressing the forced adoption of “smart keys” on new vehicles, was met with a volley of “Quit being such a luddite!”, etc. So OF COURSE, the next logical step is to eliminate the button! Don’t want to risk breaking a nail, after all!
The “hogs” don’t just overlook their pens being built, they are DEMANDING them, because they want “protection” from the “predators” (AKA life and responsibilities). But what they don’t realize (or refuse to acknowledge), is that the very ones “protecting” them ARE the predators! Laziness is going to kill us all.
Hi Blue,
That aspect of this that galls me most is being rip-tided along with the cattle. Because the cattle mooooo to be ear-tagged and managed, the rest of us end up the same way – unless we (eventually) go Amish and even they are eventually going to get rip-tided along, too.
Imagine what a relief it will be to never have to think again.
Exactly! When people are too lazy to even use a damn TV remote, summoning Alexa/Siri/Google to change the channel instead, that’s how you know we’re fucked!
Teach that pig to drive! Standard shift!
Wanna know what would be both green and satisfying?
To PERMANENTLY relocate these troublemakers – who have marred and ruined the current automotive landscape – to said hog farm.
And of course the car has 2-way communications so that the car can check not just who you are but whether or not you are “authorized” to drive, like are you up to date on your boosters, no tax problems with the G, no Islamophobia posts on Fecesbook and so on.
I’m just wondering how they think they will be able to retrofit my old Jetta TDI with this whizbang crapola.
But the Feral Government will soon I expect to have much bigger problems than that to worry about.
“Once you no longer need a key – or a fob – your car is no longer started by you. Your are given permission to start it”
Darned is people aren’t even lazier than hogs.
I’m really getting tired of people that are too lazy to even push a button or twist a key to start a car. If they are that lazy, you can be assured they are too lazy to drive well.
It’s amazing the dildos are still able to WALK without “ASS-istance”!
Hi Blue,
I anticipate that eventually, people who are physically able to walk will start using wheelchairs. Maybe even Baron Harkonnen suspensor suits for the obese to float around in…
OK all together now….HELL NO.
Hi Eric,
How was the Volvo programmed to “know” that only you were authorized to drive it? Presumably, it didn’t have access to your retina scan or dna. Does it have a camera with an image of your face programmed into it?
Hi Martin,
I should have been clearer; there’s still a fob you have to carry (for now). Just no buttons to push to start the car or unlock the door.
Do you have to be buckled in for the car to start?
(Only half kidding)
As usual, Tesla is WAY ahead of the curve. No FOB, no key. You authenticate to your phone Tesla app which can be turned off at any time of course. It is a bit terrifying that Genesis has actually leapfrogged Tesla and has retina scanners now. That is like my worst nightmare scenario. Minority Report made real, basically.
Tesla app……If your phone battery is dead…can’t get in the car…lol…
Feral hogs live in Manitoba, the dig in during the winter in large numbers, form a circle under the snow, they all stay warm. The feral hogs are spotted from the air, the snow melts where they are.
I remember reading a story about a New Guinea farmer who had a garden that the neighbor’s hog rutted out to nothing.
The woman next door let her hogs get out of the sty, her neighbor killed her.
Then the one of the Aborigine who cooked and ate his wife. “She tasted good,” he said.
535 feral hogs are eating everything alive.
They’re fenced in already, if you think about it.
On behalf of feral hogs that’s insulting
A feral hog will turn on you and even kill you. Known to happen.
Razorbacks attack and will eat your food. Picnic is over.
The feral hogs that occupy Congress are hyenas first, then feral hogs. They do identify with most anything.
Even the Jews! Feral hogs nonpareil!
You know how ((they)) kill anybody and everybody all of the time.
The ultimate in “conflict of interest” is to offer a Jew FREE PORK.
But it wasn’t a problem for Herschel Krustofsky, aka “Krusty the Klown”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Krusty+the+Klown+pork+products+heart+attack&atb=v320-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz1n974xkr6o
‘Feral hogs’ — drumphish
‘Can we agree at least on this: today’s [6 May 2015] Sun front page, featuring [UK Labour politician] Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich, is cruel, abusive and puerile. We should also be able to agree that savage satire of politicians is inevitable and even desirable in a free press.
‘But there’s another question where no agreement is going to be possible: was the front page of the Sun surreptitiously antisemitic?
‘It’s fair game to use an unflattering picture of Miliband – and the picture certainly is unflattering – but why this one? And why point out that this is a bacon sandwich? And then emphasise it with jibes about “pig’s ears”, “porkies” and “saving our bacon”?’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/06/sun-front-page-antisemitic-save-our-bacon-ed-miliband
‘Surreptitious,’ hell. Mass murdering zionists are fair game to be whacked right between the eyes, whether they munch bacon or not. Does it matter that the zionists’ fellow mass murderer and brother-in-arms Adolf H was a vegetarian?
1984 and Brave New Word were not meant to be instruction manuals.
Nor Idiocracy. Or Demolition Man.
Ah yes, the tried and true tactic of incrementalism.
Thats an interesting improvement for the controllers. Just a short step down from there to a full on dystopian, Sci-fi future. Instead of interlock devices, TPTSB should catch a clue from the old Star Trek. Install a tiny opening in the airbag that dusts the driver in the face (for safety) with psychedelic spores. Everyone (Who is allowed) behind the wheel, can then plod along, happy and hooped, unawares they are even in a digital gulag. IIR, the only thing that could reverse the effect was anger and negative emotion.
What a world. I think the name of the planet in that episode was Omicron.
Slaves of “convenience”. If it saves a motion, it’s a must have device. From the looks of American waist lines, we’ve had far too much “convenience”.
If you really want the ultimate “convenience”, kill yourself. You will never have to move again. Or, you could wait around for the state to do it for you, and make damn sure it’s “convenient” for it to do so.
“If it saves a motion, it’s a must have device.”
Ironically, a lot of new technology actually requires MORE motions to complete a previously simple task. For instance, instead of simply turning a knob to adjust the climate control, you now get to putz around with a finicky touchscreen. And God-forbid it’s covered in fingerprints!
Rube Goldberg was really onto something.
The owner of the car isn’t always the person driving the car. For example, valet parking. Or the greaseball mechanic who is supposed to fix it. (I have my problems with mechanics at the moment). Or maybe the 16 year old taking it to Junior prom. Of course, Americans have the critical thinking skills of a goldfish, so they will likely happily be fenced in like the overweight fat hogs they are.
Excellent points, we didn’t ask for any of this tech stuff, and yet it keeps encroaching. All in violation of the KISS principle and my favorite, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Tried-and-true is taboo in the “brave new world”.
Car recognizes its owner. Sounds interesting. And if the tech was developed organically by a bunch of hackers, I’d be interested. But this is one of those things that a Ted Talk futurist came up with to plant the idea. Now that cheap and ubiquitous facial recognition cameras are in everything, it’s possible. Thanks, CCP!
But I think I’ll pass. Will Volvo spend thousands of man (I mean… person) hours on locking this thing down hard to make sure that no one can get access to the log file? Will Volvo make a big deal about the security around the technology and how the encryption won’t be available to anyone, not even Volvo? Or will they sell that data to anyone with a checkbook to add a little incremental revenue? After all, tracking data that’s not tied to a driver isn’t worth much. Won’t hold up in court either. But with cameras logging your face and your body behind the wheel, it’s obvious that marketeers and enforcers will be drooling over the prospect of connecting all the dots. And if any of that data is stored anywhere other than your personal space, they won’t even need a warrant.
One reason I use Apple products is because it is possible to lock them down fairly well. I have my own keys to iCloud that Apple can’t get. I know that there are certain countries that have claimed to cracked the Secure Enclave chips, and of course no networked device is completely secure, especially when there’s a user involved. But at least they’re making securing your data a talking point. Will Volvo put as much time and effort into the project? Will they be able to attract the kind of security talent Apple can?
“I use Apple products is because it is possible to lock them down fairly well. I have my own keys to iCloud that Apple can’t get.” -RK
I have trouble believeing Apple on this claim.
Of course you don’t. So use Android and know for certain that Google is combining through all your data and selling it. Or just go off grid. No matter to me.
Ummm. . .somebody’ snarky today.
Different stroke for different folks. I would love it if my phone never rang unless the call was vetted by my digital secretary. Email should go back to never alerting at all, just like your USPS delivery technician doesn’t bang on your door when you get an electric bill or “invitation” to open up a new credit card account. And I’d really like it if I was in complete control of all my data, kept on premises and subject to all the benefits of the 4th amendment.
But unfortunately that’s not the world I live in. I have a higher than average knowledge of computers, having grown up in the 8-bit days and programming binary codes into assembler to make lights (yes lights, not LEDs on dad’s PDP-8e) flash. After being thoroughly unimpressed with Windows 8 and Vista I tried Ubuntu Linux and found it worked for about 80% of the stuff I used computers for. But then I found a deal on a store demo Mac and was sold. Here was Unix that was useful, even if it is expensive and probably getting less secure over time. But at least they pay lip service to keeping your data private (and it helps that the CEO probably has a few skeletons in his closet he wants to stay there).
So I do the best with what I have to work with, knowing that “free” just means you’re the product. Just read an article about smart TVs that featured a company that’s giving away sets that have cameras and other sensors to detect how many people are in the room. You cannot turn them off and they’re always monitoring.
Telly takes tracking to a new level, especially since owners can’t opt out—blocking tracking may result in an owner being charged for the TV. The company’s viewing and activity data policy says its TVs can track a myriad of things, including settings, search queries, apps usage, and how many people are within 25 feet of the TV.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/
What good does all that data do? Are people really buying based on what a company wants to sell them? Or are they just buying what they want and the ad comes along later?
Volvo just wants to make your driving experience as less complicated as possible. Even if you don’t have control anymore, that is just too bad.
Charles Kettering solved the problem, Dayco is more than 119 years old.
Not much of a mystery as to why automobiles are here.
My daughter’s Volvo can dial a phone call from the dash.
It is spendy to fix the cooling fans, the module, the serpentine belt needed replacing, 700 plus dollars to repair. The fan module was almost 700 dollars. You have to hire mechanics who know how to do the job.
The mechanic phones me to inform me about the repairs. You have to make sure your children are taken care of even when they need some help as adults. Walking or riding the bus is not how it is done anymore.
Always have some graphite on hand if you have a keyed lock.
You don’t want to break a key in the door lock, that is mighty inconvenient.
My old Ford tractor is as old school as it gets, except for an electronic ignition, upgraded to 12 volts, an overhaul of the engine, new gear oil, transmission oil, starts on first crank.
Ford spark plugs are a must for the 860N.
The key turns to have contact, the starter can engage, you have to push the button so the starter can crank the engine, choke if necessary, one foot on the clutch pedal, give it some go juice, she goes. You have to have the tractor in neutral or no go.
2024 – 1957= 67 years of use. Saves time and money.
Five forward gears, it can get complicated, easier said than done.
A 39 horsepower four-cylinder engine is easier to handle than a 20 mule team.
20 mules will cost some money, the tack and feed, have to make room for them, the costs mount up even more.
Buy a tractor and let the mules go to pasture.
The stagecoach days are over. When you have a coach and four, you need a stable and hay for the hay burners. You’ll need a bit bag and oats for those horses.
Four wheels and an engine is how it gets done now.
Canned music, canned music
Playing on the radio
Canned music, canned music
Without dime it do not go
Favorites on the jukebox are only half the show
When it’s canned music, canned music… – Dan Hicks, Canned Music
In times of famine, you can EAT the mules. Just ask any German Army grunt that somehow SURIVVED Stalingrad and twelve years of Soviet captivity.
A regular key often served as an impromptu knife, fingernail cleaner, etc. Try that with a fob.
While it’s uncomfortable to quote Crazy Teddy, the violent luddite might have been on to something:
“It is not possible to make a lasting compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through repeated compromises.” -Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber
Ted was right, Mike!
What he didn’t explain that’s implicit in the point he makes is that “technology” has a rip tide effect. It drags along pretty much everyone because most people are perfectly fine with – eager to – “embrace” whatever they’re told the “latest thing” is. Smartphones are a great example. Even ten years ago, many of us did not have them – me included. Now I have one, too – even though I hate the damned thing. Why? Because I effectively must have one. If I want to be able to communicate with the rest of the world that has “embraced” them.
It is difficult to function in the world today without a smartphone. Possible, but difficult. This is the rip tide effect.
Not that difficult, but “inconvenient”.
I have one, but only because of the ever changing network. I’ve had to replace 3 perfectly good cell phones because the networks would no longer support them. The phone I have now has had as many functions as possible disabled, without disabling the phone. It is not connected to the internet, and I have a diligent practice of blocking numbers. I get one or two calls per day, and about that many texts.
I am so attached to my smart phone that half the time I forget to take it with me when I go out.
No matter how many people we warn about stuff like this, they will STILL be surprised when they are locked out of what they thought was “their” car. Not only won’t they be able to start it, they won’t even be able to get in it.
It’s much more than making a call or being all but FORCED to use “mobile apps”, especially that damnable QR code. While the “Swiss Army Knife” aspect of the cell phones can be very useful, it’s having NO OTHER CHOICE that’s annoying. Not simply to have to use a mobile phone at all, but, akin to our political parties, effectively TWO mobile platforms, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. IOW, your “pick” is WHICH “Dark Overlord” shall oppress you. There are alternatives, including this open-sourced one that those that have run Linux boxes are familiar with:
https://ubuntu-touch.io/
However, regardless of OS, there’s yet another aspect of mobile devices which is VERY disturbing…they ENABLE the SURVEILLANCE STATE. Not only do they have a transponder which, in effect, gives away your location like a tagged bear, it can also “listen” and even SEE on you, lest you go to the trouble to cover up the camera lenses and stuff the mic port with cotton wadding…or cover your phone with foil or shove it into a “Faraday Bag”. It’s akin to that RFID tag on the bear’s ear being able to record the sounds of Yogi taking a shit or banging Cindy Bear (or maybe “Boo-Boo”, but “Mister Ranger” won’t like it!). It’s more than monitoring your phone calls, it’s listening in to your conservations, or what TV programs or other media entertainment you enjoy. Or perhaps reporting to the cops or even the FBI that you and your like-minded friends are gathering in groups of three or more, akin to how, in an alternate 1991 “North America” (filmed in the then-new “Century City” in 1972), in the “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”, the Gestapo-like, black-uniformed, jack-booted police break up any ape gatherings, as they live in fear of the talking chimpanzee, Caesar (Roddy McDowell), who’s RIGHT UNDER THEIR FREAKING NOSES.
“that damnable QR code” -Douglas
I refused to use a QR code. Restaurants always want me to scan one for their stupid menu. I just tell ’em no thanks. I’ll take a paper menu. They always accommodate the request. If they didn’t I would literally get up and leave.
I’m about tire of this surveillance “capitalism” shit.
D.C. wants to change America into Venezuela.
https://bombthrower.com/forty-centuries-of-failure-price-controls-debasement-and-tyranny/
Excerpt:
““We are developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? That’s where are they travelling, how are they traveling? What are they eating? What are they consuming on the platform? So, individual – carbon – footprint – tracker. Stay tuned, we don’t have it operational yet, but it’s something we’re working on”.
The stage is set, when politicians tell you they want to be able to control prices, believe them – but what the public must understand is that price controls means spending controls.
The politicians will tell you that it’s all about putting “greedy CEOs” in their place.
What they won’t tell you is that price controls also means is telling you what you can or cannot eat, how you use energy – whether you’ll be permitted to travel, or make any other kind of economic decision or make any kind of value exchange that you used to take for granted.
In a world of price controls, that’s over.
Throughout history, price controls have always brought about serfdom and tyranny because that is the only way to override individual incentives. In today’s highly wired world that would mean total technocratic feudalism.
The most vivid example we have today is Venezuela – where price controls were so effective, the rabble had to break into public zoos to eat the animals.”
Not to be too argumentative but 90% of Venezuela’s problems are American sanctions because we don’t like their form of government. Like Iran in the 1950s, they stopped letting us steal their oil. Strange…. their corpgov differs little from our pathetic thieving commie/fascists in DC.
The UK has for all practical purposes confiscated their gold bullion. After destroying their home country’s economy we are now allowing their citizens into our country. So,, what do you think they’ll do? Look at England and Europe for the answer once they let in those they bombed the shit out of. That’d be Syria, Iraq, etc. Gone with the wind,,, not a shot needed fired! They are now Muslim Sharia.
That’s our future…..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/tyranny/british-man-jailed-18-months-for-questioning-allah/
Maybe mind our own freaking bees wax?
Bro you are 100% ON THE MONEY!!!
I simply Cannot convince Venezuelan’s that
Maduro is suffering from “Chronic Castro”…
(A rigorous sanctions regimen)…
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Sidebar…
I Would love to have an “Electrifying” experience….in Catatumbo VZLA….
South Lake Maraciabo …….Man it Sucks!!…..All those ReadyKilowatts being wasted for a “Light Show”……..while my cell phone discharges……..:)
I’ll admit to keeping my cars “healthy” by exercising them regularly, washing them and checkups as needed. Just like you would a member of your family. But this key less stuff is just creepy and wrong.
What happens if you lose your phone, bloodshot eyes or you bring your car in for service? I’ll be avoiding this kind of stuff for as long as I can. Currently the newest car I’d consider buying is over 10 years old.
That 1965 Plymouth Valiant with the 170 Slant Six and “Three on the Three”, NO AIR, or the same year VW “Kafer” (Beetle) Type 1 sedan, are looking BETTER AND BETTER.
Every single vehicle in my driveway (and garage) needs a key to start it. There are five of them. Do a few of them have FOBs? Yes, but none can be used to start any of the vehicles…lock, unlock, and to open and close the back hatch. That’s it. I am not bragging, but I can start my car by inserting the key and not having to apply the brake. 😉
As car manufacturers continue to create newer and newer technology to invade our privacy and to seep control away from our own assets I back pedal further and further to older cars with less of it. They got me once. I was able to escape the pen. I will not be recaptured.
“I am not bragging, but I can start my car by inserting the key and not having to apply the brake. 😉”
My two actually go in to gear without touching the brake pedal.. and off you go without any annoying seatbelt nanny warnings or buzzers.
It really is the little things.. ☺️
‘The XC40 just starts – more finely, automatically turns itself on. It also automatically turns itself off when you park and leave it.’ — eric
Useless. Example: yesterday I dropped off aluminum cans at a recycling bin. Since it’s a 30-second task, I put the manual trans in neutral, apply the lever-activated parking brake, and leave the driver door open while I walk to the bin and back. If the car turns itself off during my brief foray, I’m going to smack it.
I’M the captain of each automotive journey. A vehicle that resists or countermands my orders is going to get dumped, or torched. NEVER take sh*t from a lowly device: you are the customer; it is there to serve you without cavil.
D.C. is the lowly device that we should NEVER TAKE ANY SH*T FROM.
Until D.C. is the servant again, individual liberty is doomed. NIFO
Like Lord Vader, it BECAME the “Master” as of April 9, 1865, with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House to Grant’s Army of the Potomac . The day…the USA…DIED.