<VV> pushing my buttons

[Jay Maechtlen]

On 1/19/2015 7:20 AM, djtcz--- via VirtualVairs wrote:
> I rented a 2015 Chrysler 200 for 2 weeks a few weeks back because I have a nostalgic attachment to Mopars.
>
> 9 speed automatic with the basic shift control as a big knob in the console in amongst other poorly lit and marked large knobs for heater fan, radio volume, and radio tuning.
> I'm sure since everything is computer controlled with a can bus or whatever control via a knob makes the most sense.
> It took me about a week to get used to that.
> I think buttons on a lit keypad would have been a lot better
>
> It drove very poorly in the low gears at part throttle and at part throttle. Surging and lurching. Maybe the great and powerful master CPU behind the curtain had adapted some curious driving habits by the previous renter, although it had 200 something miles to adapt to me. Maybe the CPU needed a re-flash or something.
>
> I can only imagine what the self driving cars are going to be like.
> Consumer computer controlled products. Derisive snort.
>
> Dan T
>
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Every car I've driven with electronic throttle control has had - 
eccentricities.
It will decide that I didn't really mean it when I eased onto the gas 
and ignores me.
Not fun when you're trying to maneuver in traffic!

-- 
Jay Maechtlen
SoCal
'61 2-dr modified w/fiberglass skin,
transverse 3.8 Buick V6 TH440T4 trans

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