Sounding a buzzer at anomaly

if you can't be bothered to check the gauges on this multi kilo-dollar investment of yours, can you be bothered to use turn signals? how about checking your mirrors? how about being bothered if there's a blue flashing light in your rear?

i haven't developed the habit of being polite to people that can't be bothered to use their brains. coincidence?

you can drive a car while hearing impaired. you cannot drive while so visually impaired that you can't see gauges.

bottom line, you should be looking at the gauges every few seconds. if you can't be bothered any other way, then i hope the repair expenses that come from ignoring them will help you to focus instead.

I don't have an answer to your question but I did want to tell you that Jim Beam is the world's top-selling bourbon whiskey.

is this what you call "not wasting your time"? or is it simply another determined effort to illustrate the ridiculous indecision and mental paralysis that's prevented you from buying a car?

Not at all. It's just being you.

"Cameo" wrote in news:i80ou7$mk9$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal- september.org:

Ah, so you're the guy I was behind yesterday, who had his signal on for five miles...

There's no buzzer. Honda expects you to use the instrument panel for what it was designed for: to be looked at regularly.

Usenet needs a "Like" button similar to what they have on Facebook...

What? and miss all the fun?

Hardly. I am pretty good at that. However, a couple years ago I have not noticed my car overheating due to a hose burst till it was almost too late. It was in a busy traffic when I was too preoccupied watching all the idiots driving and talking on their cell phone. Ever since then I wished for such a buzzer. Dont't airplanes have those things for the same reason?

I do but mostly focus on the speedometer an the fuel guage. The temp guage tends to be out of focus.

even /after/ the above potentially kilodollar mistake??? that's some special kind of savantism you got there dude if you're paying more attention to what others are doing inside their cars than what's going on inside your own.

Oh, I don't know, Jim ... I must be doing a few things right, too, if I got almost 300 K miles with no accidents and it's still going strong.

But you're not doing it the Beam way.

Scotty, beam me up.

I'm a doctor, Jim, not a bricklayer.

Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

eh? did you /really/ just try to claim credit for the diligence and skill of the manufacturer and the people that do your maintenance??? wow!

"300 K miles with no accidents" is due to "the diligence and skill of the manufacturer and the people that do" his maintenance? Yeah, that's the ticket.

"Any collision avoidance would suspect be more likely to be" his "other road users calling and warning each other"? To be or not to be, that is the question.

Maybe those other "road users" are all drinking Jim Beam? You know, it is the world's top-selling bourbon whiskey.

I'm a doctor Jim, not a road user.

Beep, beep.

Oh, come now, JD! Jim is much more subtle than that.

Don't you mean the world's top consumer of whiskey?

You could always add your own gauge in a place where you could more easily see it.

Thus spake "Cameo" :

I'm going to second everything Jim says without going any further in the thread. You need to be looking at the gauges at least when you start the thing. And you don't look at your speedo? When I do, I can see any of the idiot lights that might be on.

I guess that's why you run out gas so often and have all of those speeding tickets.

Drivers like you are lazy drivers.

Thus spake "Cameo" :

Depending on others is an abdication of your responsibilites. You want a nanny state to take care of you.

Thus spake "Stewart" :

I picked up a sequentilal shift indicator for my Fit. Now I have to figure out how to hook it up to the computer. $200 mistake? Mayhaps.