It's amazing what humans can do to overcome such difficulties. My time in the RAF was spent on a medical rehabilitation unit, where service personnel who had been injured came after hospital treatment for therapy to enable them to live as normal a life as possible. On one occasion, I saw three of our patients returning from a visit to the local pub: in a car. Two of them had their left arm and left leg in plaster: one worked the steering-column mounted gear stick, the other steered and worked the accelerator and brake. I think the third, who was in the back seat, would have been on his knees praying, except he had both legs in plaster!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 7:41 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Kids are Dying in Cars On 01/06/2010, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't you believe it. My sprog does the same and, with _no > instruction from me whatsoever_ she reached over, turned on the > CD/Radio, switched from radio to CD and put on her favourite. This > week she asked me what one of the stalks on the steering column did, > pointing out that the other one (indicators) helped me go around > corners. Oh, he's got all that sussed too, I'm very forthcoming if he asks about anything else. But the interlocks are such that the brake pedal needs to be fully depressed and the ignition on for the stick to be able to be taken out of park, it won't even release the key until the transmission is set to park. It's a big car, he's still tiny and I have long legs, so without an accomplice it would be a feat of engineering for him to be able to actually get the car out of park (assuming the car was idling). I think that I have quite a few years to go before I need to be too concerned and in any case he has to be big enough to wrestle my keys off me first :-) > She will be fully capable of the mechanics of driving in another two > years. I don't know whether to be proud or terrified. ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
