Overheard: "It was like a Quentin Tarantino for teenagers."
Does this mean that Tarantino is high-end art?
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Professional driver, closed course
Just about any car ad on TV these days features the disclaimer that the car is being driven by a professional driver on a closed course. The point of this, as I understand it, is that we non-professional drivers, driving on roads with other vehicles also present, shouldn't attempt to get the car to do what is being shown on TV. And in cases where the car is spinning through snow and sleet, or slaloming through pools, this makes sense. Skidding conditions are by their nature unpredictable, and the risk of an accident is real.
But the other day I saw that disclaimer on an ad where a car merely drives down the street. Does this mean that their car is so unsafe that a lay driver can't safely drive it down the street? That being so, why are they bothering to sell it in the first place?
But the other day I saw that disclaimer on an ad where a car merely drives down the street. Does this mean that their car is so unsafe that a lay driver can't safely drive it down the street? That being so, why are they bothering to sell it in the first place?
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