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| You are absolutely right, too. None of the warnings, in and of themselves, will prevent an accident. BUT, one of them just MIGHT make someone think about a safety issue (like turning off EZ-Steer on a 4WD) that they otherwise wouldn't have considered.
And, as I alluded to in my other post, it might be fine for you to bypass the warnings when they become "meaningless", if you will be the only one operating the system. But what if your neighbor wants to borrow it? He tells you "oh, yeah, I've run those before", when in fact he has only attended a demo at the dealer's lot, so you hand it off to him with no misgivings. He gets your unit, which no longer displays the warning because you bypassed it, and because he misunderstood the capabilities of the system he believes it can navigate around obstacles by itself (and now there is no warning to tell him otherwise), and he runs into a tile hole, breaking an axle on his sprayer and throwing him headfirst into the corner of the lightbar, opening a 2-inch gash under his eye, which will require surgery to repair the damaged nerves as well as 2 years of followup treatments to ensure proper healing, and he now has to see a psychotherapist because he has visions of rogue lightbars attacking him in the night, and his wife can't handle him waking up screaming "BEGONE, FOUL EZ-GUIDE!" and so she leaves him and sues for full custody of the kids and 80% of the assets (and the dog),and he wants to hold someone responsible. Where's he going to look?????????????????????? At you, because you turned off the warning that could have alerted him to the need to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AND PAY ATTENTION, DIMWIT. At the dealer's sales guy, for allegedly overstating the capabilities of the system. At the dealer himself, for recklessly employing such an irresponsible windbag of a salesman. And at Trimble, for allowing the warning to be bypassed in the first place.
The warnings are a (very) unfortunate necessity in this day and age, as you noted. Would that people could just learn to take responsibility for their own actions... | |
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Eliminate EZ-Steer warning?
