Spooky
A friend picked me up today in a newly leased Mercedes SUV (yeah, I don’t think they’re short of a few bucks). I don’t know if it was this one exactly, but it was close. Have you been in a modern car lately? It’s creepy as hell.
The whole dashboard is one big screen. The instrument cluster and everything is just an image (and, I gather, completely customizable). The center console was showing us video out front (or back, depending which way we were moving) with helpful guidelines overlaid for the position of curbs, etc.
Gosh, I ain’t even notice if it was electric.
We go around one corner, and both our seatbelts tighten. She laughed, “it saw something it didn’t like – a pedestrian or something.”
Saw something it didn’t like. Let me off this consarnit newfangled earth!
January 12, 2026 — 6:28 pm
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