[lit-ideas] Re: Emotive automobiles

And most of them respond if the owner talks to them just right.  A few  years 
ago I had an ancient Ford, built when Nixon was in office, which required  a 
complicated combination of pulling a rod that had come detached from the  
steering column, depressing the gas pedal at intricate intervals and to exact  
depressions, and wiggling the automatic gear shift just so, to start it.   No 
one 
but me was ever able to start it -- not even the mechanic, who needed my  
help to get it started in his shop.  If my finessed series of finagelings  
didn't 
work immediately, it always worked when I patted it and told it to come  on 
and start for Mommy.  My kids will always talk to their cars.  Now  I have a 
nice 2002 KIA which requires no speech or wiggling.  Life is  good.
 
Julie Krueger
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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Emotive automobiles  Date: 7/30/2004 12:16:49 AM 
Central Daylight Time  From: _Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(mailto:Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)   To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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Marlena wrote:

"A group of Japanese   carmakers have created what
they're calling an
"emotive"  automobile  that is able to express a
range of human feelings."

Every car I've  owned (starting with a 1936 Chevrolet named 'Mr. Car'), has 
been
capable of  this. Cars feel and express love, devotion, depression,  anxiety,
determination, uncertainty, resentment, pity, terror, Schadenfreude,  hope,
disappointment, resolve, and many more moods, feelings and  emotions.

Cars may not have souls, but most of them have a sense of  humor, or, in the 
case
of Rovers, Bentleys, and Morgans, etc., a sense of  humour.

Robert Paul
Reed  College


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