Pet Peeve #24

Chaebol people and rich characters drive luxury cars. They don’t drive cheap cars without all the latest safety features, and I wish kdrama writers would clue in on the newest technology. Look, I’m not remotely interested in cars. As long as it gets me to my destination, I’m fine with any four-, two-, and three-wheeled vehicle. (I rode in a tuk-tuk in Thailand and Philippines. lol.)

But even I know what safety gizmos are available nowadays.

For instance, luxury cars have an advanced response system that warns the driver if there’s a pedestrian or object ahead. It will automatically initiates the brakes at the same time as it alerts the driver with a beeping sound. Same when the driver is distracted or doesn’t notice that the car ahead of her has slowed down. The system will also engage the brakes and sound the alarm to warn the driver.

So this accident in Hwayugi which created the zombie could have been averted.

There’s also an attention assist. My car can detect when I’m drowsy by the way I’m steering the car or staying in my lane or driving “erratically.” If it senses that I’m drowsy, a coffee cup symbol lights up on the dashboard and it tells me that I need a break from driving. It even tells me when my hands aren’t on the wheel, lol.

Then, there’s swerving feature. Luxury cars also have this evasive steering system that allows the driver to swerve around an unavoidable pedestrian or object and then steers around the blockage and guides the car back to its original course.

So this accident with the deer in Chicago Typewriter wouldn’t have happened. If only he was driving a Mercedez Benz….

Lastly, airbags. What thing I find ridiculous about the death of the Goblin’s bride is the nonexistent airbags. The truck of doom was expected (this is kdrama, of course where even a moped could be a moped of doom) but airbags should have deployed upon impact.  Aren’t airbags standard in all cars by now? 

She didn’t have to die on the spot. She could have been rescued and given medical assistance, providing the Goblin ample time to race to her side and give her life like he once did to her dying mother.

No airbags?? I sue the car manufacturer. 

lol. Yes, I’m still exasperated with that Goblin writer for half-assing her job. It’s like she wanted Goblin’s bride to die just for the heck of it, and to mess around with the audience’s brains — simply because she had power to do whatever she wanted to the script and the adoring public would lap it all up anyway. I call BS.