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Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?
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On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on the
wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

nib
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nib wrote:

On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up
a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on the wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

Mine tells me to look forwards


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On 19/02/2026 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Costa coffee locations programmed into your Sat Nav and selected as
places of interest?
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On 19/02/2026 15:23, Andy Burns wrote:

nib wrote:

On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on
the wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

Mine tells me to look forwards

Do these messages actually improve safety or do the exact opposite by distracting the driver?
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.
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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I thought you were going to give us a tale about some people not realising
the tide was coming in at Keyhaven.

GH

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On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

But are they programmed with the locations of the potholes you're
avoiding?
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Joe

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On 19/02/2026 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

It did that because you had been driving 20mph under the speed limit
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gets full Marx.

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On 19/02/2026 15:32, alan_m wrote:

On 19/02/2026 15:23, Andy Burns wrote:

nib wrote:

On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee. >>>>
Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on
the wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

Mine tells me to look forwards

Do these messages actually improve safety or do the exact opposite by distracting the driver?

Now apply that question to all the road furniture
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gets full Marx.

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In message <mvoq2rF55hU2@mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager
<news0009@eager.cx> writes

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a
message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

But overlook the presence of potholes and/or large puddles.

Adrian
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On 19/02/2026 16:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 19/02/2026 15:32, alan_m wrote:

On 19/02/2026 15:23, Andy Burns wrote:

nib wrote:

On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw >>>>> up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on
the wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

Mine tells me to look forwards

Do these messages actually improve safety or do the exact opposite by
distracting the driver?

Now apply that question to all the road furniture

I have seen (summaries of) reports that indicate too many road signs or roadside signs of all types when installed fairly close together are
more of a safety hindrance than a help. The same reports indicated that
at night pedestrian crossings beacons were harder to see with badly
placed street lighting giving a shorter reaction time margin.
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alan_m wrote:

Do these messages actually improve safety or do the exact opposite by distracting the driver?

The opposite, sometimes it expects you to read a couple of sentences of explanation on the dashboard when trying to adjust the speed-limiter/cruise-control/radar-adaptive-cruise settings, and it
doesn't like what you're trying to do!

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On 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a >message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

My Ford Puma does it when I've only been driving for a few minutes,
but not every time.
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On Thu, 2/19/2026 9:59 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Apparently if you drop a covering over the camera that
looks at your face, that converts the warning
from "consider taking a break" to "driver attention monitor disabled"
warning :-)

# Around 1:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4d0CC-VAo

Another possibility is to disable "lane keeping assist"
so the car isn't looking at the lane markers so much.

Paul
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On 19/02/2026 16:06, Joe wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

But are they programmed with the locations of the potholes you're
avoiding?

Or perhaps the concept of "the rolling English road" is unfamilair to
the designers?
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Sam Plusnet
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On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT, Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a
message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

Mine tells me I should check my mirrors more often.
WTH thought all this shit up?
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:12:11 +0000, Dan Green <dhg99908@hotmail.se>
wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT, Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a >>> message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

Mine tells me I should check my mirrors more often.

If it's smart enough to do that, it should also be checking rearwards
for you.

WTH thought all this shit up?

Sum kunt with too much time on his hands.
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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Or maybe an advert of some kind? :-)

#Paul
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On 19/02/2026 15:55, Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a
message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

VW /Audi did the opposite to instruct the ECU to cheat the
emissions when no steering-wheel movement was detected :-(

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On 19/02/2026 18:06, Sam Plusnet wrote:

On 19/02/2026 16:06, Joe wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT
Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

But are they programmed with the locations of the potholes you're
avoiding?

Or perhaps the concept of "the rolling English road" is unfamilair to
the designers?

Well, Siemens built a railway test track in Germany that mimicked the
defects known to be encountered by their rolling stock when used on
actual British tracks, so that they could identify problems before the
trains went into service.

A Hitachi train-set developed cracks in its welded aluminium
monocoque carriage design because they (presumably) failed to take
similar precautions before using a design that never caused such
issues in Japan, on UK tracks.
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On 19/02/2026 in message <mvoq2rF55hU2@mid.individual.net> Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a >>message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

Their manufacturers have never had to play dodge the pothole :-(
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This joke was so funny when I heard it for the first time I fell of my dinosaur.
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On 22/02/2026 12:32, Andrew wrote:

On 19/02/2026 15:55, Bob Eager wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw up a >>> message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

VW /Audi did the opposite to instruct the ECU to cheat the
emissions when no steering-wheel movement was detected :-(

Would seem perfectly reasonable to limit pollution from vehicles stuck
in traffic:-)


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On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:43:04 +0000
mbailey888@protonmail.com wrote:

On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:12:11 +0000, Dan Green <dhg99908@hotmail.se>
wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 15:55:07 GMT, Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto
threw up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a
cup of coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

I think some car systems detect excessive wandering of steering.

Mine tells me I should check my mirrors more often.

If it's smart enough to do that, it should also be checking rearwards
for you.

WTH thought all this shit up?

Sum kunt with too much time on his hands.

"We can do it, so we will do it. Stop complaining".
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On 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Did it tell you where the nearest Public Toilet was so you could get
rid of it after you had finished with it?
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On 22/02/2026 14:34, Davey wrote:

Sum kunt with too much time on his hands.

"We can do it, so we will do it. Stop complaining".

WE wont do what is needed, because its difficult.
We wont do what is wanted, because we know better.
We will do what is easy, so we look like we are doing something
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On 19/02/2026 15:32, alan_m wrote:

On 19/02/2026 15:23, Andy Burns wrote:

nib wrote:

On 2026-02-19 14:59, Jeff Gaines wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of coffee. >>>>
Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Getting to be par for the course. Mine tells me to keep my hands on
the wheel when as far as I can tell they never left it.

Mine tells me to look forwards

Do these messages actually improve safety or do the exact opposite by distracting the driver?

No but they are intended to absolve the manufacturer from claims by the driving public who may crash because they have not followed the advice!
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On 22/02/2026 14:36, Davey wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Did it tell you where the nearest Public Toilet was so you could get
rid of it after you had finished with it?

Probably direct you to another coffee shop so you can use their
facilities - whilst buying another cup of coffee.
--
Sam Plusnet
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:48:22 +0000
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

On 22/02/2026 14:36, Davey wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Did it tell you where the nearest Public Toilet was so you could get
rid of it after you had finished with it?

Probably direct you to another coffee shop so you can use their
facilities - whilst buying another cup of coffee.

Perpetual Motion in action.
--
Davey.

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On 22/02/2026 18:48, Sam Plusnet wrote:

On 22/02/2026 14:36, Davey wrote:

On 19 Feb 2026 14:59:03 GMT
"Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

Drove to the next town earlier, during the journey my Picanto threw
up a message "Consider taking a break" with an icon of a cup of
coffee.

Is this just a gratuitous insult?

Did it tell you where the nearest Public Toilet was so you could get
rid of it after you had finished with it?

Probably direct you to another coffee shop so you can use their
facilities - whilst buying another cup of coffee.

If it didn't do this its would lower its NCAP safety rating and probably increase your insurance premium...

Dave
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