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You describe your friends' relying on technology to solve their problems in a condescending tone, yet they simply adapted to a world that is changing. When most

You describe your friends' relying on technology to solve their problems in a condescending tone, yet they simply adapted to a world that is changing. When most of the cars they use already have the digital guidance, there is no point not using them, and still "throw their arm on the backside of the passenger seat, and turn around to look out the windows", which is way less efficient. Imagine you are planning a trip from California to Colorado. Are you gonna study paper maps and remember all the turns before go like old days just in case your phone would die sporadically? No, you don't spend an hour of your life to prepare for an event with 0.01% probability. Same for your friends.

JohnFen 3y ago
Maintaining an awareness of your surroundings is a fundamental skill required for driving. If people have become so dependent on technological aids that when they drive a car without them, they fail to maintain awareness of their surroundings, that is a failure as a driver that is fully worthy of condescension. They're exhibiting a laziness or incompetence that puts others around them at risk.
mrguyorama 3y ago
I've found the backup camera to be such a significant upgrade to backing out. I drive a hatchback, so a smallish car in today's world. When I'm in a parking lot, I'm inevitably surrounded by two giant fuck off bro-dozers that block all possibility of seeing anything around me, while the backup camera is mounted on my car's rear and has a fisheye-esque lens, meaning I can back to just the point where the rear is aligned with the cars around me, and I can see the entire lane of the parking lot, and thus can easily see if cars or people are coming. This is something you just cannot do by "looking behind you" because you are 3 feet forward of that camera. You cannot see the parking lot lane until you are already intruding into it. The awareness you get from that camera is just strictly better than you get from your eyes alone.

JohnFen 3y ago

Maintaining an awareness of your surroundings is a fundamental skill required for driving. If people have become so dependent on technological aids that when they drive a car without them, they fail to maintain awareness of their surroundings, that is a failure as a driver that is fully worthy of condescension. They're exhibiting a laziness or incompetence that puts others around them at risk.

mrguyorama 3y ago

I've found the backup camera to be such a significant upgrade to backing out. I drive a hatchback, so a smallish car in today's world. When I'm in a parking lot, I'm inevitably surrounded by two giant fuck off bro-dozers that block all possibility of seeing anything around me, while the backup camera is mounted on my car's rear and has a fisheye-esque lens, meaning I can back to just the point where the rear is aligned with the cars around me, and I can see the entire lane of the parking lot, and thus can easily see if cars or people are coming. This is something you just cannot do by "looking behind you" because you are 3 feet forward of that camera. You cannot see the parking lot lane until you are already intruding into it. The awareness you get from that camera is just strictly better than you get from your eyes alone.