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LETTER OF THE MONTH
“THE ART OF SAFE “ DRIVING REQUIRES CONSTANT JUDGEMENT CALLS”
DOWNFALL IN THE RISE OF THE MACHINES
MY CENTRAL HEATING unit recently wouldn’t fire up. The screen menu indicated that it would not start until I had booked a service, for which it judged the time was due. Bad luck on a cold Saturday night. Rather than me using my judgement, that choice was frustratingly denied me by overbearing technology.
And don’t even start me on compulsory software upgrades to match ‘improved’ operating systems.
Technology is meant to serve us, not control us. With a push to include speed limiters in all new vehicles, May), one suspects that the boffins behind this may be motorists, but they are not drivers.
