[lit-ideas] Re: Emotive automobiles

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From: Robert Paul <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jul 30, 2004 1:16 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Emotive automobiles

 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.



A.A. This is like in that Faulty Towers skit where John Cleese goes out and 
beats his car with a branch from a tree.  Personally, I think cars can be 
better at *expressing* their emotions.  All mine ever do to get attention is 
make a tire go flat.  Makes me want to get a branch of a tree ...


Andy




Robert Paul
Reed College
 

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