essay on affection you have for a car
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Explanation:A few months ago I bought my first new car. The number of choices to be made seemed a little ridiculous. I walked into the dealer knowing I wanted a green Ford Focus sedan, only to find out there were half a dozen models that fit into that category – Focus LX, LX Premium, SE, SE Comfort, ZTS, blah blah blah, and a couple shades of green.
In addition to the car model and color choices were decisions on options packages. And having seen the "pimped out" SUVs on MTV Cribs, complete with two or three LCD screens (one in the dashboard for the driver, of course), DVD player, speakers costing more than my college education, GPS navigation systems similar to those used in the Space Shuttle, heated seats, and 20 inch …show more content…
It's fascinating to reflect on the progression of technology in the car — and in our lives for that matter — and how it continues to have a changing impact on society. Each advance seems to be building up so that our busy lives have minimal interruption; the car is not simply a means of transportation, but also an office, a theater, and a dining room. Getting from here to there doesn't have to be a hassle or an interruption to the work day, since people can continue what they were doing to before they got in their car, or do whatever they might be doing if they didn't have to be in the car. You can schedule a conference call on your cell phone while commuting, or have a computer read your email and trade stocks real time through OnStar's Virtual Advisor while picking the kids up from school. The more technology eliminates tiny disruptions in our lives, the more it become a necessity rather than a novelty. Remember, the popular use of cellular technology began in the early nineties as "car phones." We had lunch box sized phones plugged into the cigarette lighter or expensively hardwired into a car.