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Again, it could be Photoshop product but it's so true.

My last car and the current one have the excellent Acura navigation system, which presumes that I am sentient. I don't program it in traffic. I should however be able to get some use of it.

My father, at 81, bought a red, two-seater Cadillac convertible, which has a satellite navigation system which presumes you are an idiot. This was before Government Motors and there are opinions that buying a Government Motors vehicle presumes that you are an idiot, but that's another story.

To program it, you have to put the car in park, get out, circle it three times, and bow toward Detroit, then get back in, put your tongue in your left cheek and then program it. This is done in the name of safety. It's lip service to the nanny state.

Another case of posturing. If car makers were serious about drivers not being distracted, they'd jam cell phones when the car is not in park, and even put the driver in a soundproof lucite cage. In my experience the two most dangerous drivers are a man on a cell phone in a Ford F-250 and two women having an earnest conversation.