OT: Rant about cars and how stupid the world is with stupid people running it

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Feb 19 04:00:47 2002

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> Also, my truck has DRL's. I guess GM thinks I'm too stupid to turn the
> lights on myself. Actually it's probably not GM, they are just
> responding to the "safety" desires of the masses. The really stupid
> thing is that the DRL's are just on the front. If I'm concerned that
> people aren't going to see me, I want to have my rear lights on too!
> Windowsitis, would be a good name for this kind of thing.

Day-time running lights are a conspiracy by the headlight industry to sell
more headlights.

I can't think of anything more stupid at the moment. If you can't see a
car in the daylight with or without it's headlights on, YOU SHOULD NOT BE
ALLOWED TO DRIVE!!!

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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