Question of the Day!

Turn off the unwanted bells and whistles on my car every time I start it up. There's proximity sensors that scream blue murder if they detect an object that's any closer than, say, Belgium. We are well into boy-crying-wolf territory with that damn thing. Then there's the environmentally friendly mechanism that cuts out the (diesel) engine every time I come to a halt and restarts it when I take my foot off the brake. Intended to cut down on emissions at junctions, it reduces driving in slow-moving traffic to a farce—engine on, engine off, engine on, engine off, on, off, on, off, on-bloody-off.

One day I'm going to go into the fuse box in search of a more permanent solution, but I'd lay money that will just trigger another damn alarm about missing fuses.