Don't Fucking Drive In Danbury
Tonight we (me, Nina, Mike, Sean, Susan, and FttP) went to an Indian restaurant in Brewster and then on to Danbury for Child Of Men. Both food and movie were good, but the driving was fairly retarded. This was the first real test of the Prius's navigation system, which actually performed admirably (even if it didn't always choose the fastest route it got us where we needed to go). The problem was in the road systems. We had way too many of those wait-which-way-does-this-lane-go moments, one of which served as an excellent test of how the Prius brakes with four people in it (answer: thankfully very well). Another involved me accidentally going down a one-way road (without realizing it was one-way) and an asshole behind me (I call him such because he honked at me for failing to run a red light at the turn, thus not allowing him to run the red light after me) decided to overtake me in the other lane just as I was going to turn across it (remember I didn't know it was one-way so the turn looked safe to me). A collision was avoided by approximately 3 inches. It would have only been body damage but really would have ruined the night. The jerk then matched my panicked-slow speed for 30 seconds giving me the "You crazy" look. The whole time I'm just looking back with "Can you just go away please?" and thankfully he did.
Getting back onto 84 to go home was also an adventure, since we had no idea how to do it even though we could literally see the highway from the theater's parking lot. And of course we were so close that the nav system thought we were already on 84. We actually had to drive far enough away from it to make sure the system realized we were lost and brought us back to the highway. That behavior (the auto-rerouting) is, in my opinion, the single best feature of the whole system. Any fool can write down directions ahead of time and follow them, but having a lady with a gentle voice calmly get you back on course when it all goes to shit is a beautiful thing.
Oh, and don't fucking drive in Danbury.
Getting back onto 84 to go home was also an adventure, since we had no idea how to do it even though we could literally see the highway from the theater's parking lot. And of course we were so close that the nav system thought we were already on 84. We actually had to drive far enough away from it to make sure the system realized we were lost and brought us back to the highway. That behavior (the auto-rerouting) is, in my opinion, the single best feature of the whole system. Any fool can write down directions ahead of time and follow them, but having a lady with a gentle voice calmly get you back on course when it all goes to shit is a beautiful thing.
Oh, and don't fucking drive in Danbury.
posted by SomeJerk at 11:43 PM
2 Comments:
You know....if you just listened to a different beautiful woman's voice you would have realized you needed to take a right instead of a left in order to get on 84. Or you could have listened to her when she said to just turn around too.
See...some beautiful women are smarter than others....like I am smarter than your computer (sometimes)
Or maybe the beautiful woman should have just driven.
BTW, you'll have to introduce me to her sometime.
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