OT. Google Joins Ford

Reminds me of a guy I knew teaching at a junior college saying guys were trading in cars just to get the updated electronic stuff.

I had a rental with a backup camera. I liked it except it interrupted the radio everytime I put it in reverse. Sometimes I was in the middle of listening to the news or something important.

Do they all do that?

I think if I went from park to Drive it interrupted the radio for a second.

With my '67 Pontiac, I found junk parts for a power window /// No, it was the door lock, not the window. Far far easier to modify. ...just for the passenger door, and I put in only one switch for the driver. It was good.

In NYC if you stop in your lane, or even if you pull to the side, to look at something, the guy behind you waits 320 nanoseconds before going into the oncoming lane and passing you.

In Baltimore, the guy behind you sits and waits patiently for 20 seconds and maybe then he passes you. Even when you are the only two cars around. .

OTOH, on the xway they pass you on the right, even when your right turn signal is blinking. (They don't do that in NYC.)

Exactly. That's why I have it on.

Clearly, you don't live in Baltimore. Or DC.

I turn my signal on and even if he's way back, by the time I look for cars in that lane, he's passing me, just about the time I would change lanes if I weren't used to the bad drivers here.

Good. I won't exclude cars with back up cameras next time I buy a car.

I liked having it otherwise.