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...scenes are political-family gothic that read as if Tennessee Williams had written them. While riding on the campaign trail, the congressional candidate and his wife get into a screaming match in the car. He punches the dashboard; she slaps the seat. At a stoplight, she suddenly leaps out, and the car roars away. In another scene, years later, a guest in the politician's home overhears him singing a lullaby to his one-year-old daughter: ``I want a div- or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-or-orce.'' The Governor raises the subject of divorce...
Jolted into awareness, Larry decides to pass the truck. He does not see another car just beginning to overtake him, hidden in the blind spot on his left. But as he moves toward the passing lane, a warning light flashes on his dashboard, a buzzer sounds, and he quickly swings back, narrowly averting yet another collision...
...fully attentive, he checks his location, pinpointed by a glowing dot moving along a map displayed on a dashboard screen, then exits the freeway and reads instructions on an adjoining screen. Finally, as he nears his destination, he is guided further by a computer voice that intones, "Turn left on Cherry Street...
...expected to operate a 4,000-lb. smart car propelling them down the highway at 65 m.p.h." Besides, says Yates, "the auto is the last bastion of personal freedom in the U.S. It promises enormous flexibility. This smacks of Big Brotherism. I don't want 'HAL' inside my dashboard telling me where...
...reason and others, Detroit is exercising caution in introducing smart features; the industry is testing and retesting them to ensure that they live up to their promise and is carefully anticipating the degree of consumer demand for each item. It remembers only too well such failures as the talking dashboard ("Your door is ajar"), the tiny electrical wipers on side-view mirrors, the early fuel-injection systems that repeatedly stalled...