"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

*shudder*

[kyriani.livejournal.com]

I enjoy looking under the hood and being able to repair small things and knowing about my car. The day they stop allowing me to do things like that is the day I will actually get off my butt and figure out how to dismantle a car like that. ;p
Hell if I could make the money I am making now as a mechanic I would switch careers in a heartbeat. ^_^ But thats also the programmer in me, I want to know how everything *works*.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

So, being a programmer who wants to know how everything works, In a large system you are familiar with the functions and implementation of every module, including the operating system and the drivers that talk to the silicon? That is a good thing. And I really should like to have people like you in the development teams whose output I'm purchasing.