Monday, July 6, 2009

Story of the Day



An associate professor at Florida State University, along with other researchers, is conducting a study regarding the belief that cars project personality traits.

Really? Seriously? That's what someone went to school for? To study? The personalities....of cars?

The study is meant to further the field of morphometrics (shape analysis).
The FSU professor hopes this research will look at whether the personality of a car is related to the driver's habits and interactions.

As silly as this seems, there really is something to it.

My first car was a 1991 White Chevy Cavalier and I named him "Falcor" after the mystical flying dog from "The Neverending Story". And this car was caring, reliable and smelled a little, like a dog.

Read more at Researchers study 'personality traits' of cars

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