"Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?"

[elfs]

"Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?" is the popular refrain many Linux users like to toss at people who run one of the proprietary operating systems, like Windows or MacOS.

Well, Volvo is betting that, if you're a woman, you would. Their concept car for women has the following blurb: "The no-open hood, which actually can be opened by a mechanic if necessary, is in response to the fact that drivers of new cars today, and conceptually in 10 years, don't need to look under the hood since most of the parts reliably run off electronics."

I have to admit that the ponytail crease in the headrest is an interesting point. "It's not about woman's lib: in an accident, the ponytail holder becomes a single point of contact where all the energy of an impact will be concentrated."

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

The icing for me is that the car wasn't designed by a bunch of sexist male engineers - it was a design team of women.

[dwarfrage.livejournal.com]

Hell *I*'d take a pony tail crease, I've had middle of my back hair for 4 years now, and I hate it getting caught between me and seat.

The hood, I'm not so sold on. :)