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[Gadget Geek]

I do like the driver assistance features, but they do make you lazy. When I drove a loaner last year that didn't have them I had to remember to keep my distance from the car in front. I always used to chant the distance mantra "only a fool breaks the two second rule". How quickly we forget when we don't have to do it.

 

[Kithmo]

Really? I find this automotive advancements incredibly useful, lane assist especially.

So top 10 things to do with your 10 seconds of hands free driving with lane assist on.

1. Open your sandwich pack
2. take the top off your beer
3. light up a fag
4. remove the wine cork
5. reach in the glove box from drivers seat to find your mints
6. do a short text
7. touch up your make up
8. take a picture of the car in front / behind behaving dangerously
9. take off your jacket
10. wave with both arms out of the windows screaming help the car has taken over

any other ideas?

Roll a spliff.

 

[Gadget Geek]

Really? I find this automotive advancements incredibly useful, lane assist especially.

So top 10 things to do with your 10 seconds of hands free driving with lane assist on.

1. Open your sandwich pack
2. take the top off your beer
3. light up a fag
4. remove the wine cork
5. reach in the glove box from drivers seat to find your mints
6. do a short text
7. touch up your make up
8. take a picture of the car in front / behind behaving dangerously
9. take off your jacket
10. wave with both arms out of the windows screaming help the car has taken over

any other ideas?

Cook your breakfast on the portable stove. (Actually filmed by police in a truck as they drove past in a tractor unit!)

Lorry driver cooking a meal in his cab caught by police spy truck

The unmarked HGV gives officers a better vantage point to see people using their mobile phones at the wheel, but the truck has captured far more unusual crimes since going into operation in Devon.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Deleted member 3150]

Roll a spliff.

Dam, missed that one, although I’ll change that to roll “another“ spliff

 

[Kithmo]

Or make an Oregon trail on the dash. ?‍?

 

[Archev]

Really? I find this automotive advancements incredibly useful, lane assist especially.

So top 10 things to do with your 10 seconds of hands free driving with lane assist on.

1. Open your sandwich pack
2. take the top off your beer
3. light up a fag
4. remove the wine cork
5. reach in the glove box from drivers seat to find your mints
6. do a short text
7. touch up your make up
8. take a picture of the car in front / behind behaving dangerously
9. take off your jacket
10. wave with both arms out of the windows screaming help the car has taken over

any other ideas?

I really thought I was fairly fit and able despite advancing years but try as I might I can’t do those 10 recommendations within the ten seconds.
Is it OK to tow these electric cars to get them out of a ditch ??

 

[sparkygoat]

Agree with this 100%.
Perhaps there should be a separate class of license for those that can't drive without electronic assistance

 

[sparkygoat]

Agreed. It's called a bus pass.

 

[awbugritt]

Well I am a silly Billy, fancy not taking advantage of all this modern B******s, sorry, Driver Aids! In future I will:
1)Take a good book for those boring motorway trips.
2) Intersperse that with a video perhaps?
3) Take a portable stove with all the necessary cooking ingredients so I can rustle up something tasty on the way while watching one of the numerous cookery programs.
4) Might even have a bit of Nookey if the spirit moves me. A thousand thanks Electrickery, you've opened up a whole new world. Who'd have thought 'driving' could be so entertaining?

 

[Deleted member 3150]

Well I am a silly Billy, fancy not taking advantage of all this modern B******s, sorry, Driver Aids! In future I will:
1)Take a good book for those boring motorway trips.
2) Intersperse that with a video perhaps?
3) Take a portable stove with all the necessary cooking ingredients so I can rustle up something tasty on the way while watching one of the numerous cookery programs.
4) Might even have a bit of Nookey if the spirit moves me. A thousand thanks Electrickery, you've opened up a whole new world. Who'd have thought 'driving' could be so entertaining?

Well done for tackling nookey, I was not brave enough. The centre console gets in the way too. But a brick taped to the steering wheel and climbing in the back might be an answer

 

[awbugritt]

I'll let you know Electrickery, if I ever get the B****y vehicle!

 

[FormerOctavia]

Really? I find this automotive advancements incredibly useful, lane assist especially.

So top 10 things to do with your 10 seconds of hands free driving with lane assist on.

1. Open your sandwich pack
2. take the top off your beer
3. light up a fag
4. remove the wine cork
5. reach in the glove box from drivers seat to find your mints
6. do a short text
7. touch up your make up
8. take a picture of the car in front / behind behaving dangerously
9. take off your jacket
10. wave with both arms out of the windows screaming help the car has taken over

any other ideas?

That's quite scary !

 

[awbugritt]

I lost 2 consecutive girlfriends due to the minor foibles of a Sunbeam Rapier mark 3a in cream and rust. Firstly when the beautiful walnut dashboard, bristling with peeling chromed edge dials, who’s needles disappeared in the buzz of high activity, (caused by the sardonic tone of vibration) - caught fire. I recall her resplendent form disappearing from view on her exit in a haze of acrid smoke.

and secondly, I recall the sodden screaming siren, so alluring earlier, that I offered her a lift home from a Beep bop deluxe concert. There she was paddling away from the car after I hit the shinny new stretch of tarmac that turned out to be flood water bursting through both rusty wheel arches like a fire hose.
-several modern aids may have saved the day but hey-hoy.
Eventually I did find the right woman, boy that was a long enjoyable search………

My mate had one with paper filled sills covered in isopon and then sprayed. Had a nice rasp changing up from 1st to 2nd gear and an overdrive switch on the dash. Ah happy days.