Remember how in "Terminator 3" the Terminatrix could control electronics, enabling her to use them as an extension of herself?  Remember how when it came to vehicles they'd do the David Fincher zoom-through down to the circuit level, showing that she's taking control of it only to zoom back out and show the shift knob move by itself, the gas pedal depress to the floor and the steering wheel turn by itself?  That bugged the crap out of me.  For me it was exactly like in "The Never-ending Story" when Sebastian got to the part in the book where Sebastian got to the part in the book.  ("That's IMPOSSIBLE!"  Both his response and mine.  Luckily he was all alone in his school's attic; I was in a crowded theater and got simultaneously 'shhhhh'd and snickered at.)

Compare with the film "Maximum Overdrive."  Shift knobs move by themselves, steering wheels turn without assistance, and gas pedals depress to the floor, seemingly without any cause.  This was perfectly acceptable.  AWESOME, in fact.  I'm not entirely sure what the difference between these two examples is, but I suspect it to be the explanation of how it is working.  In "Maximum Overdrive," there really is no explanation.  For all we know, there are invisible beings sitting at the wheels of the vehicles.  We know that an alien race is using Earth's machinery to "sweep out all the roaches," (those roaches are us) but there's absolutely no attempt to explain it.  In "Terminator 3," on the other hand, they go out of their way to explain it, even using flashy graphics of electrons following circuitry.  The problem, though, is that electronics don't work that way.  I could buy the steering wheel, since most modern cars have "power steering," but the shift knob?  There's no machinery for the electronics to activate to get them to move.  To me that was just plain stupid and it spoiled the whole movie.

Do these types of things bother other people, or is it just me?  None of the other unrealistic things  in the film -- time-travel, cybernetic organisms, Claire Danes  --  bothered me in the slightest, while such an inconsequential thing completely ruined it?  Is that a normal human response?