{"id":1595,"date":"2016-08-06T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2016-08-06T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T14:53:05","slug":"of-cars-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Of Cars and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_7174\"\"IMG_3293\"Owners of special cars can be divided into two groups: the nice and the not so nice.<\/p>\n

I happily chat up the first category – they happen to be older, enamored with their automobiles, crazy to share every single detail and, if you are lucky, invite you to sit in their car (although don’t even think about driving it.) There is a true community out there of car\u00a0collectors, and they spend every penny they have to provide the vehicles with original parts and details. Their cars sit still for the most part unless they are moved to shows and exchanges, as below in Annapolis. (And, by the way, most of them are men, thus the gendered title….) the very nice owner of this car let me even hold his recent trophy!)<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_7194\"\"IMG_7168\"I will not approach the other group, who drives the current version of luxury automobiles, environment be damned. I am too polite to put my thoughts in words about these status symbols other than this: the status quo will be that they will never meet me.<\/p>\n

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Owners of all cars (and for that matter pedestrians,) can be divided in two groups as well – those who drive (walk) and text or dial a phone, and those who don’t. Even those of us who know the dangers of distracted driving are known to do it. And hands-free won’t cut it. The data simply show that it is a matter of divided attention, not a matter of phone in hand. \u00a0Why is talking so bad, you ask, when we do it all the times with passengers in the car? Well, passengers assess the danger level of situations and shut up when you try to merge\u00a0onto I-5, or some such, or understand while you stop talking when concentrating on a tricky spot. \u00a0Your phone partner doesn’t. Here are some sobering data (not yet adjusted for the current Pokemon Go craze, which puts pedestrians and their surround in all kinds of dangerous situations.)<\/p>\n