Mazda's Automatic Transmission Uses Mind Control.
The bride took delivery of her new Mazda CX-7 two weekends ago, and it's good (it goes fast, has heated seats and a loud radio). However the car just stepped into a whole new league of HAL9000 style intelligence/creepiness when we were rolling down Speed Camera Hill in Kew (Princess Street toward the Eastern Freeway). Everyone knows you need a hint of brakes just to keep it under the 60+3% km/h threshold on this stretch of road where the police promise to 'serve and collect'. Any other automatic car I've driven previously needed me to push a button or move the gear selector from "D" to 3rd or some other such manual measure to give a bit of engine braking to save me from riding the brakes all the way down. So just as I was getting to the thought of moving the stick down a gear the car read my mind and changed from 4th to 3rd, going downhill with my foot off the accelerator! My jaw hit the floor - the car just read my mind... How did it do that? Some might figure it's because some computer sensed throttle position was idle, speed was slightly increasing and brakes were slightly on - No way, can you imagine getting a software developer to actually write the code to do that? It would never happen and it would have 36 life-threatening bugs. The more feasible explanation: it just read my mind using the little blue light in the ceiling.
Has anyone else noticed the little blue mind-reader in the ceiling of Mazda CX-7's? It's a bit creepy. It also seems to turn the stereo up when driving faster, turns the headlights on etc... just by me thinking about it. The dealer couldn't explain what the little blue light was for - now I know. Ostensibly for "safety and convenience" what sinister purpose does this mind-reading car actually serve?
The bride took delivery of her new Mazda CX-7 two weekends ago, and it's good (it goes fast, has heated seats and a loud radio). However the car just stepped into a whole new league of HAL9000 style intelligence/creepiness when we were rolling down Speed Camera Hill in Kew (Princess Street toward the Eastern Freeway). Everyone knows you need a hint of brakes just to keep it under the 60+3% km/h threshold on this stretch of road where the police promise to 'serve and collect'. Any other automatic car I've driven previously needed me to push a button or move the gear selector from "D" to 3rd or some other such manual measure to give a bit of engine braking to save me from riding the brakes all the way down. So just as I was getting to the thought of moving the stick down a gear the car read my mind and changed from 4th to 3rd, going downhill with my foot off the accelerator! My jaw hit the floor - the car just read my mind... How did it do that? Some might figure it's because some computer sensed throttle position was idle, speed was slightly increasing and brakes were slightly on - No way, can you imagine getting a software developer to actually write the code to do that? It would never happen and it would have 36 life-threatening bugs. The more feasible explanation: it just read my mind using the little blue light in the ceiling.
Has anyone else noticed the little blue mind-reader in the ceiling of Mazda CX-7's? It's a bit creepy. It also seems to turn the stereo up when driving faster, turns the headlights on etc... just by me thinking about it. The dealer couldn't explain what the little blue light was for - now I know. Ostensibly for "safety and convenience" what sinister purpose does this mind-reading car actually serve?
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