so full of electronics

 The wet road ahead seems to unspool into the space below the windscreen, a few cars come the other way  and slip past on the left. The lights of the filling station ahead glow red in the blue grey of the sky and the tarmac, the dull wintery green of the fields is hardly of any account with regard to the total impression.

Hum along, now the traffic roundabout is ahead, slow a bit, there is no car on the roundabout, pick up speed again and this functional construction is left behind. The traffic lights ahead are red, slow down and let them turn green and the standing traffic pull away. Never stop, just go slower and faster. The slip road for the motorway, and then the motorway itself.

There is hardly any traffic at this time of day on this Sunday. A clothes drying machine bought online has to be collected. It is a distance of some fifty five kilometres, and somebody has to do it. The son and the wife are still asleep at home, and the cat is most likely still snoozing on the window ledge exactly as before. The messages from the navigation device on the mobile 'phone tell the way to the small village where the item is waiting to be collected. Take all the lefts and the rights as recommended and then arrive at the way of Cloves, as the street appears to be called, and the correct house number. 

Put on the mask, and press the doorbell.

Press the doorbell again. This time a voice answers, explain the business.

Wait a moment, then a man comes down without a mask. After greetings are exchanged, he opens the door to the garage and shows the machine. Count out the bank notes, and he helps load the surprisingly light machine into the back of the car.

On the way back home the brother calls on the telephone, stop the car at the side of the road and have a lengthy conversation. It is raining, a police car passes with all it's horns and lights blaring. Police errands on a Sunday morning.

And then back to letting the road spool by underneath the car, driving slowly so as not to use too much petrol. 

On the way out there had been an orange light on warning that the anti-skid system was not working properly. It is off now, there is no reason apparent as to why.

Modern cars are so full of electronics.