Cool Car Electronics
Soon our Motorcars will have enough auto gadgets that we will ne’er need to entrust them. We exist in the time to come. If you don’t believe me – go drive a New automobile with modern amenities. Modern Motorcars make captain Kirk’s Starship look like like a 1974 Oldsmobile. Allow me to explain, you hop in your automobile to find that your wife has been driving it. Considering she is three inches shy of dwarfism – your chest and knees are stuffed against the steering wheel.
No trouble! With the thrust of a button the auto can remember and restore your settings. Now – it’s time to start the car. Remember the old days when you had to start the automobile by actually putting a key into a slot and TURNING? Not anymore.
You have the key in your pocket – and that’s good enough for your auto – just press ’start.’ “Good morning John says the display that is actually bigger than your grandfather’s television. “Where are you going, today?” “Gas Station – Mobil,” you respond out loud to an empty auto. “Ding! Mobil station, 1.23 miles.”
That’s right. You don’t even need to know where you are going in a modern auto – it knows for you. “Head east for point one miles,” it tells you. Now – since it is cold outside and you forgot to remotely start your auto while you were finishing your morning coffee (Automobiles are a few years off from predicting when you are going to be leaving.) you decide to turn the butt and back warmer on.
And as your body is slowly warming up – you have a conversation with your auto. “Weather.” you say. “28 Degrees and cloudy,” your automobile says. “Stocks.” “Nasdaq down two point six points.” Enough of the bad news. Now you want to listen to music. “Play artist U2.” you say.
Your auto, of course, dutifully scans it’s catalog of songs which you have transferred via a drive the size of your pinky and finds your favorite U2 song and plays it at a level deemed comfortable for listening to given the volume of the motor at your current speed.
Not one minute into the song and your auto announces to you, “Turn right in point one miles.” Just as you’re in the middle of your turn your auto announces to you “You are receiving a phone call from LIN-DUH.” “Answer.” you say, and with that you are talking to your boss, Linda, who is also pushing in her call. She was able to make the call by asking HER auto to call you. So clearly – we are living in the future. Motorcars have supplanted maps, CDs, telephones, papers – you name it. It’s only a matter of time until we won’t need to ever leave our Autos at all. “Bathe me.” we will ask our Motorcars. “Bubbles?” our Motorcars will ask. “Yes, auto. Babbles.” We live in the time to come. If you don’t believe me – go drive a modern auto with modern creature comforts.
