Just relax. Count to ten and walk away. There is no need to get into a “heated” situation and become known as the town “rage-aholic.” As Yoda of “Star Wars” fame once said, “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to sweatiness and sweatiness leads to the stinky side.” Okay, that last part is totally paraphrased. Maybe it led to the dark side.
Or, if you find yourself getting “heated” while driving around in your brand new Acura RDX with the technology package just allow the standard GPS to keep you “cool.” Not emotionally cool, but literally cool. As in, the new GPS system in the 2009 RDX can adjust the temperature of your cute-ute (isn’t that a condescending term for itsy-bitsy SUVs?) based on your position relative to the sun.
The GPS system in the RDX is already a totally state of the art affair, what with its ability to relay real time traffic information and even recommend the best nearby Chinese restaurant. It even has a Zagat restaurant rating guide. Oh yeah, and it can also give you directions but the newness factor of that is so 1999.
But what about this new take on “automatic” temperature control? Doesn’t just setting your system to a delightful 72 degrees keep your vehicle at that temperature? Why do we need this extra GPS system to gauge how close we are relative to the sun thereby allowing it to “decide” how warm or cold we should be?
Maybe we have seen the “Terminator” movies one too many times but we get nervous when computers do too much of the thinking for us. We don’t even trust those automatic windshield wiper systems. How do they know how fast I want my wipers to go? Maybe we don’t like to see out of the front window in a rainstorm. You never know.
Our view? We do like technology that improves and simplifies our lives out there on the roads. But to our eyes, this new GPS based temperature control just seems too complex and unnecessary. Also, what happens when the computer goes crazy like Hal from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and locks you in your RDX with the temperature set to 103 degrees.
Then you will wish you just had a manual temperature control system.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.