Sounds like these software-operated cars need what every data center has
next to the exit door: a Big Red Button. A kill switch. Something you
can hit and it will absolutely, positively shut down the engine.
Allan
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relng...@aol.com wrote:
With regard to the comments about incompetent drivers (it always seems to
be the other guy), the fact that the driver was a CHP Trooper belies that, in
my opinion. At trial, all will be revealed, methinks.
Cops around here drive like shit, state troopers probably except
> The case of the 4 people that died in the lexus bothers me the most.
> Electronic igniton and shifter meant that all the basic things you'd like
> to do, switch off the engine or change gears, doesn't work. I'd also expect
> that a very powerful car already traveling a high speed will be di
> ...Brakes? Only a fool touches the aircraft brakes under such conditions.
> You
> simply glide to a safe stop...
>
Like Tonya Harding, then.
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Was before I was on this list. I will next time, but there hasn't
been a next time yet!
Dan
On Jul 12, 2008, at 8:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You've been thru Jefferson and you didn't stop by? I am but one
> block from
> the four lane.
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hearing about some car that was
>> equipped with sanders also. (Citreon?)
>>
>>> From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
>>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:10 -0600
>>> To: "Mercedes D
s Discussion List"
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping
>
>
> > I'm a kid at heart (who never had a train set?) so I love trains!
> >
> > Often have featured buying an old passenger car and turning it into a
> > sta
OK..
http://www.airplanehomes.com/
> From: "E M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:01:02 -0400
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping
>
> I want the site to the comp
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:52:45 -0500 Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Wonko the Sane wrote:
> >
> > What sort of freaked me out on the wiki -- seeing these trains go by
> > so often each day at work -- is reading that the contact point between
> > the wheels/truck and the rails is the
Me? I'm still trying to build a go cart out of my mom's washing machine
motor.
> From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:39 -0600
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> Subject:
@okiebenz.com
Sent: 12/13/07 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping
<>
Precisely why at very low speeds on ice or shiny packed snow, downhill to
boot, with a stop sign at the bottom, the trans should be in neutral so the
rear
wheels aren't pushing.
Wonko the Sane wrote:
>
> What sort of freaked me out on the wiki -- seeing these trains go by so
> often each day at work -- is reading that the contact point between the
> wheels/truck and the rails is the size of a dime. That is really small
> surface area.
Well, steel IS elastic, so you get
Timothy Robinson wrote:
>
> "Sanders"... those were in use on buses at one time. Not sure if LD trucks
> were equipped. Seems like I remember hearing about some car that was
> equipped with sanders also. (Citreon?)
A couple of things I remember from the 60's and 70's:
Somewhere around 1970, a ca
http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs
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- Original Message -
From: "Timothy Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping
> I'm a kid at heart (who never had a train set?) so I love tr
ses,
> tractor-trailers and commercial trucks.
>
> > From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:40:25 -0600
> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] St
t; and you can buy them for buses,
> tractor-trailers and commercial trucks.
>
> > From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:40:25 -0600
> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> &g
hose were in use on buses at one time. Not sure if LD trucks
>> were equipped. Seems like I remember hearing about some car that was
>> equipped with sanders also. (Citreon?)
>>
>>> From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Reply-To: Mercedes
?)
>
> > From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List
> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:10 -0600
> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" , "M. Mitchell
> Marmel"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:10 -0600
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" , "M. Mitchell Marmel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Stopping
>
> Totally off-subject, I wandered into a wiki about trains today. (My office
> window looks out o
heck, the city buses do that. Why are you not doing that. Strap a
client in the trunk with a few hundred pound bags of sand and a
little shovel.
clay
On 13 Dec 2007, at 20:18, Wonko the Sane wrote:
> Totally off-subject, I wandered into a wiki about trains today. (My
> office
> window l
Totally off-subject, I wandered into a wiki about trains today. (My office
window looks out on a set of railroad tracks 50' away, and a train comes by
every three minutes.)
Modern locomotives have a nozzle that shoots sand down on the wheels
(trucks, for the railroad politically correct) to add tr
<>
Precisely why at very low speeds on ice or shiny packed snow, downhill to
boot, with a stop sign at the bottom, the trans should be in neutral so the
rear
wheels aren't pushing. BT,DT.
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