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From: chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: The Latest Dummy Light: SHIFT!
Message-ID: <309@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-May-85 14:16:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 14:16:57 1985
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Reply-To: chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder)
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Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Summary: 

[bug poison]

     In the last two cars that I have owned there was a silly shift light.
In the first, a Honda 1300 FE, the shift light was actually relatively
reliable at telling you when to shift for milage, providing that you were
on level ground or going down hill.  Going up hills and in any situation
where you wanted power I learned to ignore it completely.  I actually found
that having the light there telling me to shift for milage if I really
didn't need to be in the gear that I was in kind of useful, even if I
normally ignored it because I could see the road about me. 

     I now own a VW Cabriolet, and it has a shift light in it that I wouldn't
listen to if my very life depended upon it, I still haven't figured out what 
it's micro-chip is telling it to do!  

     The truely silly thing about this idiot light is that they are mostly
based on the current RPM's that the engine is pulling, and since both cars
in this example also have a tachometer in them, why not just put a mark on
the tachometer for those who care to pay attention?  (I have always believed
that if you're going to drive, drive!  I can't stand the thought of
operating a car with only 1/2 of your mind on the task at hand, that being
driving.)   Oh well, at least in both cases the idiot light was extra, and
if you wanted to ignore it then that's easy enough to do.

				-- Chris Yoder

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				-- Chris Yoder

UUCP --- scgvaxd!engvax!chris

<Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get
you...>

{  The opinions here are representative of Huge Aircrash, not me and 
   *especially* not of my poor little keyboard.    8-)=
}