Dangerous

Frits Pieper
08 apr 2020

He is furious.

He stands before me, his face flushed. Beads of sweat are already starting to form on his red forehead. I feel that I better react carefully, otherwise there will be more injuries.

I take a step back.

One and a half meters.

How dare I give him such a dangerous car!

He had driven many cars in his life, but never such a dangerous and ridiculous contraption as this Ford Focus!

It's ridiculous that there are rental companies that rent out such dangerous cars!

I ask cautiously what's wrong with this car.

Everything!

Especially when you're just driving on a straight highway, and you want to change to another lane, the car starts making a hell of a racket, and it keeps steering back to the lane you were on!

L-e-ven-dangerous!

I admit: it's a pretty bad feeling when a car doesn't do what you want it to.

But this car does exactly what it's supposed to do: keep you in the right lane.

If you do change lanes (without indicating), you will be gently called to order: the car will hum and try to steer back. 

In a stupid English term this is called Lane Keeping Assist. You can also just say lane assistant.

That was still on in this car.

This system ensures that you are warned if you are about to fall asleep.

Or you are distracted and you 'accidentally' drive to one side of a lane.

We should have told this gentleman that beforehand.

He would have saved a lot of energy.

A lane assist is a nice option by the way.

They have that in trucks too. Then you hear a screeching sound: Stay awake, driver!

Also In coaches. In coaches you don't hear any sound, but the driver's seat starts to vibrate. With a screeching sound the passengers could get worried: is our driver still awake?

Would you like to try a Ford Focus with lane assist yourself?

You can reserve them here

There will be one more available tomorrow MaastrichtBas and Anouk will be on the phone until 17:00 PM to take your reservation.

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