The Wingnut again

Peculiarities of the Wingnut …

If one fails to engage the seatbelt because, for example, one can’t be arsed on a quick run down to the shops, then one hears a wonderful Japanese warning chime.

This particular chime sounds like the heart monitor one hears on Grey’s Anatomy and the like. Quite moorish to be honest and no real incentive to buckle up. Nothing like the screaming banshee that plagues my Subaru.

The oddest thing; while these chimes are chiming the indicators do not work. Again not a problem for that quick trip down to the shops. The locals can suck it up – they are used to bloody tourists.

The Japanese engineers at Nissan probably didn’t consider that foreign reprobates would do nothing upon hearing the chimes. Such disobedience simply did not enter their design constraints, so they happily doubled up on the use of the noise making electronic components.

The disadventurers amongst you might decry the amorality of such careless driving behavior, but I would point out that the trip to shops was for beer and smokes and may have included a quick phone call.

There is a certain completeness to the illogicity of this self-uncentredness. And, to be completely honest, I care not a fig for the marketing-driven concerns of good morning tv viewers.

And to the good burghers of Nissan I say thanks for your accidental provision of even more entertainment. The Wingnut just keeps giving.