Ok, um, no particular reason I’m mentioning this, but why the hell don’t all cars have some mechanism to prevent the battery from being totally drained? I have to believe that a simple mechanism/program to turn the lights off before the charge was too low for a reliable start would not be that expensive to implement — a decade ago.

“Well,” you might say, “there is such a mechanism. It’s called: don’t forget to turn off your damn lights.” (You might say that, if grammar wasn’t terribly important to you.)

Anyway, I’ll accept that explanation only from people who disable their O/S’s recycle bin/trash can, never use the backup battery in their PDAs/phones/etc., and love UNIX. Otherwise, it’s just nice to be user-friendly.

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