Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
That's already happening, Pepi. At the Ford dealership one of the managers tossed his keys to a young porter one morning and told him to drive it down to the next interchange on the interstate before they pulled it in to change the oil. A bit later the service manager strolled into his office with a sly grin, and asked "How come you've been driving 125mph, Bill? Running from the Sheriff?" The manager was flabbergasted, but they quickly ID'd the porter as the culprit, and called him on the carpet. He sheepishly admitted he'd extended his run down the interstate several miles and had "...seen what the new Mustang would do." Turned out that "select" vehicles had an extra chip that logged all critical information on the vehicle, and reported it back to FMC, "for vehicle research". The word was that this extra chip was in random vehicles, and that it was NOT documented in any paperwork that would let the owner know.

If we looked back at Orwell's 1984 we're probably well past most of the stuff that we found totally unbelievable and unreasonable back in the day.... Big Brother is indeed watching, and he's not necessarily our friend.
Rspears, I know it's happening, was just getting a conversation started, not only are the new cars FUGLY they are also tattle tales and will be charging the driver by the mile in the future.

I guess it takes a person with some creativity to understand how boring and unattractive the cars are these days. It is to the point that unless one reads the manufacture's badge you do not know what the car is, so since I cannot read I am even more confused.