{"id":11686,"date":"2023-05-19T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2023-05-19T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:18:00","slug":"eyrie-up-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/eyrie-up-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyrie up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday\u2019s Substackery\u2014Can they read my mind yet?<\/a><\/strong>\u2014is now up and running. A discussion of the newer automobiles which neither seek nor are at all respectful of any input whatsoever from their lowly drivers, it uses the esteemed Eric Peters\u2019 perambulations<\/a> on said topic as the springboard for my own musings on same. Teaser:<\/p>\n

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In fact, only a cpl-three years back, my beloved mother in law up in NYC returned the brand-new Mercedes SUV she had just bought to the dealership and demanded her trade-in vehicle back\u2014a low-mileage Benz SUV no more than three years old itself\u2014after her new one automagickally shut itself off whilst sitting becalmed in Manhattan rush-hour traffic. Doing so once was one thing, mind; however, after it happened four more times<\/em> in rapid succession, no contradictory input either sought or heeded by the car, my MiL had seen enough. She hie\u2019d herself back to the dealer and got her old ride back, which she still tootles happily around in without complaint to this very day.<\/p>\n

And why on earth wouldn\u2019t<\/em> she have done that, prithee tell? A car whose CPU shuts the engine off in snarled traffic is NOT any vehicle you want to be trying to drive in NYC, at any time of the day or night, snarled traffic being more the rule than the exception there. In fact, a car like that constitutes a very real hazard to life and limb, given the various and sundry obstacles to the consistent flow of traffic scattered like land mines throughout all of the Five Boroughs: road construction, stoplights, insane cabbies, and the aforementioned Critical Traffic, to mention but a few.<\/p>\n

In crowded American cities like NYC, a car that shuts itself off in traffic for \u201csafety\u201d purposes is actually the very antithesis of what most people understand the word \u201csafety\u201d to mean.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Go ye and read of it, for It. Is. Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday\u2019s Substackery\u2014Can they read my mind yet?\u2014is now up and running. A discussion of the newer automobiles which neither seek nor are at all respectful of any input whatsoever from their lowly drivers, it uses the esteemed Eric Peters\u2019 perambulations on said topic as the…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Eyrie up!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-eyrie","wpcat-199-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11693,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}