Welly wrote:Have you had these annoying warnings yet? : You open a rear door
before you get in the drivers seat and it warns you that whoever went in the back didn't put their belt on
and the 'Milk' warning: 4 pints of milk on the passenger seat the weight of which makes the car think someone's sitting there without a seat belt on
the amount of times I've had to 'strap' milk in is stupid
Yes, you seem to have a lower tolerance for this stuff than me though...
You'd hate my car Welters, I've got lane departure warning (audible alarm), collision alert (bright flashing lights acting as a HUD and, optional audible alarm), Distance warning (dim lights in the HUD if it thinks you're a bit close to the car in front, getting brighter as you get closer... how bright will it go??
), BLIS blind spot lights (orange lights by the mirrors if there's something in the blind spot - that one gets really confused by the solid concrete wall alongside the outside lane of the A470 and brings up a message saying "BLIS System service required" or "BLIS blocked - consult dealer"), City Safety, sometimes accompanied by the collision alert (likes to bring up a message saying "City Safety Auto Braking Activated" as you try to reattach your own neck, I wouldn't mind but it usually happens if I arrive home enthusiastically and I'm parking in my own drive behind the wife's car... I wasn't going to hit it FFS!!).
When being Dad's taxi I often encounter the following scenario:
Me: "Come on Iwan, you're going to be late for Karate!!!"
Iwan: "Coming..."
Me: "I'll be in the car".
so I get in the car and start it up... (The car doesn't actually talk but let's pretend it does, it'll be funnier. They're actually messages on the screen
)
Car: "DRIVe on"
Car: "On Call Deactivated" (at least that ones gone now!)
then here comes Iwan...
Car: "Left rear door open"
Car: "No rear seatbelts used"
Car: "Left rear seatbelt used" (good boy!)
then as we arrive at karate and Iwan takes his seatbelt off a nanosecond before the car comes to a halt...
Car: "BING BING BING, no rear seatbelts used"
Car: "Left rear door open"
Car: "No rear seatbelts used"
Me: "I f*cking know, there's no-one in the back now!!!!"
Then we do it all again in a slightly different order an hour later
Don't know what you mean about the milk though, I put the milk on the floor, not having it on my leather
The wife often puts stuff on the passenger seat in her car, being a teacher she carries lots of books and files and stuff, so her car often bings and flashes to say there's someone there when there isn't. She won't move the stuff or belt it in though, she just ignores the noise
. Drives the kids nuts