Coming To A Car/Truck Near You:Ford's MyKey to put limits on drivers

[jjski78]

Originally Posted by BORNGEARHEAD

This is pretty sad actually. You can't protect your kid from the real world. Everybody who says this is great, remember what you did when you were in high school. Would you have loved your parents to bring home a nerdy-a s s automatic Ford Focus for your first car that couldn't do shiat? You ain't gettin laid in a Focus. This car won't stop your kid from driving drunk in it. You can try to smother your kid with protection all you want but if something bad is going to happen it's going to happen.

My first car was a big-block Fury with drum brakes, lapbelts, and an am radio.

I feel so much better knowing that I don't live my life in fear.

What I bolded is the problem, right there. Kids shouldn't EXPECT their parents to buy them a car! Period. Why do kids mostly drive like morons without any regard for their surroundings?? Because mommy and daddy will just buy them a new car if they wreck. Because, of course, they think they're invincible so the fear of getting hurt/killed hasn't even crossed their mind. So, it leaves parents with one thing to deter them from driving like fools, the value of the dollar. If kids had to, God forbid, buy their own car, with their own money, pay their own insurance, buy their own gas, and fund any neccessary repairs, they would probably drive a little more carefully because they would know what it takes to actually own a car.

And I got laid just fine in my snot green '85 Grand Prix with a white vinyl roof with matching snot green velour interior. I think a Focus would have been a substantial step up from that. Girls didn't understand the 3.8 Grand National turbo swap, but my girlfriend did understand the big bench seat.

[BORNGEARHEAD]

Originally Posted by jjski78

What I bolded is the problem, right there. Kids shouldn't EXPECT their parents to buy them a car! Period. Why do kids mostly drive like morons without any regard for their surroundings?? Because mommy and daddy will just buy them a new car if they wreck. Because, of course, they think they're invincible so the fear of getting hurt/killed hasn't even crossed their mind. So, it leaves parents with one thing to deter them from driving like fools, the value of the dollar. If kids had to, God forbid, buy their own car, with their own money, pay their own insurance, buy their own gas, and fund any neccessary repairs, they would probably drive a little more carefully because they would know what it takes to actually own a car.

And I got laid just fine in my snot green '85 Grand Prix with a white vinyl roof with matching snot green velour interior. I think a Focus would have been a substantial step up from that. Girls didn't understand the 3.8 Grand National turbo swap, but my girlfriend did understand the big bench seat.

I totally agree with you on parents giving their kids cars. I mowed the hell out of some lawns to buy my first car.

[Peck]

How is this Big Brother invading anyone's lives? The POTUS isn't engaging this system himself. The CIA isn't making sure your radio doesn't get to loud. The FBI isn't limiting your speed. MIB isn't following you around.

No, this is Ford giving parents control. Control over what today's moronic teenagers do, control that can help parents sleep at night, control over their kid coming home and not to a morgue. Great idea Ford.

This isn't sheltering kids, they don't grow up to be any less of an adult because of it. They aren't being sheltered. Besides, kids are going to be kids anyway. They are still going to do stupid things in the car, this just takes some of those stupid things away.

Another reason I like the idea, it keeps those kids from involving me in an accident. Now if someone can come up with a robotic arm in the vehicle to slap the person on their cell phone, texting, not using turn signals and, being in the fast lane going slow.

BTW, my very first car was my parents' '87 S10 Blazer Tahoe. Yes, the name was that long. That thing was powered by probably one of the nutless wonders of the world, the 2.8 (or was it .6) V6. It was loud, just didn't go anywhere.