{"id":5000,"date":"2017-11-26T03:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T03:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/to-hell-with-the-driverless-car\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T03:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T03:37:02","slug":"to-hell-with-the-driverless-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/to-hell-with-the-driverless-car\/","title":{"rendered":"To Hell With the Driverless Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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These days, Real Americans don\u2019t much go to sea to relieve the damp, drizzly Novembers in our souls, but we do like to fire up the muscle Mustang or the F-150 truck with the gun rack and head out on the open road, following our noses and letting the trade winds blow us where they may.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or at least we used to like it. But with the advent of the abomination known as the \u201cself-driving car,\u201d one of our most precious freedoms is now in jeopardy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, who asked for this? Communists? Women? (I know, same thing, voting-wise.) Sob sisters, pantywaists, geeks, pencil necks, and nancy boys? I suspect them all. It\u2019s bad enough to climb into the cockpit of a new car these days and be confronted with a home entertainment center on wheels, complete with giant video screens that don\u2019t do a damn thing electronically a 1934 Packard couldn\u2019t do manually back in the day when men were men, women loved them for it, and we had the culture to prove it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My sentiments exactly. Hat tip: Ingvarius Maximus of LaLaLand who adds "I would go for a 'crawl control' for use in stop-and-go traffic."  Right. L. A. freeways don't count as open road.  There is still plenty of it here in the real West, as opposed to the pussy-wussy Left Coast, not that any of you should migrate to these parts. Stay on the Left Coast and enjoy your freeways.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don't thrill to the romance of the Open Road, you are no true American like Neal Cassady here pictured at the helm of a serious hunk of  Detroit iron with one in the hand, four on the road, and a pretty girl by his side:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Neal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Filed under: Automotive<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Test your literary savvy: Without accessing the full piece, indicate the provenience of "damp, drizzly Novembers in our souls."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: These days, Real Americans don\u2019t much go to sea to relieve the damp, drizzly Novembers in our souls, but we do like to fire up the muscle Mustang or the F-150 truck with the gun rack and head out on the open road, following our noses and letting the trade winds blow us where … Continue reading “To Hell With the Driverless Car”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}