---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since it's friday and this thread's already been hijacked every which
> > way...
> >
> > Guess what standard piece of equipment that has come on every
> > passenger car ever made DOESN'T come with the new corvette.
> >
> >
> > A spare tire. No mini. No maxi. Nothing. Call home and have one brought to
> > you.
> >
> > Happy Friday,
> >
> > Jim
> >
>   Yeah,but doesn't every new GM car come with Onstar..or some  such talking
> brain?  You just push a button on the dash and some 'customer service'
> person somewhere pipes up from your dash..."Yes?  This is Onstar, how can I
> help you?"  and you say..."got a flat, can you get me fixed up?" and they
> send someone right out....you don't even have to tell em where to send the
> AAA truck...your GM car tells em where you are...
>
> Don Hanson

and several hours later, or after a call to a local service yourself, you actually get some help.

The no spare tire deal is the culmination of the trend to lower and lower profiles.  Now we have no tire a tall.  the presumption must be that no one is venturing out of urban settings, where help is near (or not).

Of course, for cars on pavement, the trend has also been for flats to be almost non-existent -- but ............ .

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David McNeely