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To: Pelham
I drive cars built before drive by wire. But I love these new cars! I get all the check engine lights, ABS lights etc. Good clean work that pays really well. 54 computers in an LS460, five in the drivers seat. Something as simple as a weak battery will light up a Christmas tree on the dash.

I really like explaining to Lexus owners that cars do not understand bank accounts. Show your affluence, suckers!

23 posted on 07/21/2015 4:24:58 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals
I drive cars built before drive by wire. But I love these new cars! I get all the check engine lights, ABS lights etc. Good clean work that pays really well. 54 computers in an LS460, five in the drivers seat. Something as simple as a weak battery will light up a Christmas tree on the dash.

I know, there are more computers in these new cars than they had in the Apollo spacecraft and we went to the Moon on those. There is more computing power in these cars as well than mission control had during Project Gemini, yet in 1965, they tracked two separate missions at the same time, Geminis 6A and 7. It's like my late mother said, "there is too much 'Flash Gordon stuff' in today's cars."
29 posted on 07/21/2015 7:59:34 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("I wish we were back in the world of Andy Williams." - My mother, 1938-2013, RIP)
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