Re: reply#51
Yes, yes, yes and yes Eddie! Your comments could have come straight out of my mouth. I’m a bit older than you, I’ll be 69 in Feb. When I got my DL 52 years ago I had to demonstrate hand and arm signals, and my parents trained me to use them in heavy traffic, as to be sure that other drivers knew what you were about to do, without question. I haven’t used hand and arm turn signals for a few years, but I still will roll down the window if I’m stuck in stop and go traffic and use the hand signal for stop, I don’t want to get rear ended.
And when I learned to drive, just like you, we all learned to drive stick, because you never knew when you’d have to drive a standard trans. car. And now that I’m older, and have a perpetually stiff neck, I could appreciate a backup camera, but no one should always depend upon this.
I’m totally with you that with all this automation we are creating a generation that is losing critical brain and manual coordination skills. I’m an example even in my advanced years of losing some of these skills. Since I so seldom really sit down and write in longhand, the once nice cursive handwriting I used to have has turned into a scrawl. And I’ve never been a very good speller in the first place, I used to always have a dictionary at hand, now with auto spell check I’ve become lazy. But I do love the convenience of writing on a device, much faster and easier. So even this old dude succumbs to some modern technology.
But I still believe strongly that its very important to be able to use my hand and brain knowledge and skills as much as possible. Being too dependent on tech makes you lose vital skills, that you may need some day if and when tech isn’t available for whatever reason. And I defiantly don’t want or need an Alexa in my life. Just one more avenue for my personal information to be possibly used in a way that I may not want. I can dial the phone, make a list, change the channel or whatever just fine on my own.
Use it or lose it.
Eddie[this post was last edited: 12/17/2019-18:37]