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Honda Crash Detection System
MImeKillEr writes "MSNBC is reporting that Honda Motor Co. unveiled an early crash-detection system for one of their vehicles. The system is unique in working even before the driver responds. A radar in the front of the car stashed behind the Honda logo detects vehicles within a range of about 300 feet ahead. It then taps the brake and tightens the seatbelt. A buzzer goes off and a light on the dash is illuminated. If the driver responds, the braking power is boosted. If the driver fails to respond, the system kicks in and brakes more while also tightening the seat belt. Unfortunately, Japanese regulations don't allow for the system to fully stop the vehicle."
Can I get one for Windows XP?? I'll need 2 secs to hit Save!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
I bought my C70 a couple of years ago based on Volvo's safety features. At the time, it was the safest sports car out there - whiplash protection seats, airbags all over the place, stability control, great brakes, etc. Today, the safety advances you hear aren't from Volvo - they're things like Mercedes-Benz brakes that dry themselves off in the wet, laser-based cruise control from Lexus, and now this radar-based braking from Honda. C'mon, Volvo. Get back in the race and make me proud.
What's your damage, Heather?
I wonder how this will affect bumper-to-bumper traffic? With the amount of DUMB MOTHER FUCKING CELL PHONE YAPPING NO TURN SIGNAL USING CUT ME OFF SO YOU CAN SLAM ON YOUR BRAKES COCK SUCKING ASSHOLES (insert -'s where appropriate) out there, maybe there'd probably be less accidents to start with.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
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Dear rotten.com,
I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
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The key is proper following distance and good use of space. Anticipate those cloggy ramps/exits. Give yourself a car length for every 10 mph. Yes! That's 60-70 feet or more between you and the "asshat" ahead of you.
Two lane freeway, 10 cars spaced approximately every 70 feet travelling at a rate of 60 mph. You have your cruise set at 65mph. Person in right lane changes in the back of the line, and proceeds at 61mph to pass those cars.
Tell me how you do that without adjusting your cruise control.
Chances are you are following too close.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
OIL IS TO DIE for. More to the point, oil is precious enough for the government to send off your children, your husbands, your wives, your partners, your brothers, and your sisters to die for. That is a rapidly escalating conclusion as American soldiers continue to die at the rate of one a day in Iraq without destruction have been found. What we do have are sniper shootings, grenade attacks, and the deaths of nearly 50 US soldiers 48 days after Bush said major combat operations were over in Iraq.
On May 1, Bush said, ''We've begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated.''
Seven weeks later and with no vile vials in hand, Bush gave a speech Monday in Elizabeth, N.J., where he did not make a single reference to weapons of mass destruction. Instead, Bush chose to distract Americans from his Nixonian erasing of his justification for war by criticizing his critics as ''revisionist historians.''
Meanwhile, Bush's fellow Republicans in Congress were suppressing history by fighting any formal investigation into the possible cooking of intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Their job, for the time being is being made a piece of cake by a Democratic Party that cannot spell the term ''opposition party'' if you spotted them all the o's and p's.
As the Republicans sit on the intelligence, as Democrats sit on their thumbs, and as Americans plan summer vacations depending on the cheapest gasoline for the biggest cars in the world, our soldiers - many of them teenagers - are halfway around the world, taking bullets for a mission that is rapidly losing meaning - at least the stated meaning.
Oh, yes, a lot of angry e-mails attempt to remind us ''revisionist historians'' that the current absence of weapons of mass destruction really does not matter because the mass graves of Iraqis who were brutally murdered by Saddam proves the humanitarian aspect of the invasion was still worth it. That does not hold up.
We went to Somalia a decade ago for what was supposed to be a humanitarian mission, after 300,000 people died in war and starvation. We fled within months of a failed raid by Army Rangers that ended in the deaths of 18 soldiers and the searing photographs of the corpse of a US soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.
Back then, the call for the United States to get out of Somalia was stunningly bipartisan. Since the White House was then occupied by a Democrat, Bill Clinton, it was no surprise that Republicans leaped on the sad turn of events, with Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico saying, ''We can't continue in that quagmire.'' Then-congresswoman Olympia Snowe of Maine, now a senator, said, ''I cannot express my disgust at watching on television the treatment of our soldiers.... There really isn't a reason for the US to be in Somalia now.''
The criticism was just as blunt from many Democrats. ''If you asked all 535 members of Congress today, almost all of them would say let's get out of Somalia now,'' said Senator Joe Biden of Delaware.
''More and more senators are saying, `We gave them food, we gave them medicine, and now they're shooting at us. Let's get out,''' said Senator John Breaux of Louisiana.
Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey said, ''I think we ought to leave now.'' Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia said, ''Americans by the dozens are paying with their lives and limbs for a misplaced policy.... Let's vote and get out.''
When it came to Somalia, Dole asked: ''What is our purpose? What is the cost? And how long do we stay?'' A decade later, the same question should apply. In the Iraq invasion we lost 139 soldiers, according to the Pentagon, while 3,240 Iraqi civilians had died as of the most recent counting by the Associated Press. The AP said the final toll is sure to be much higher. Now, nearly another 50 soldiers have died in nebulous situations that range from justifiable self-defense to dubious overreactions more rem
You obviously don't drive on the NJ Turnpike to often...
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
And you obviously don't drive I-80 from Penn. to CA much. :)
Here's what I hate:
Relatively straight and flat interstate, cruise control set at 70, I slowly start to overtake a vehicle going 69 or 68mph. I switch to the left lane, pass the vehicle, and move back to the right lane once I'm far enough ahead. I never touch the accelerator or brakes, just steady cc'd speed of 70. Now the nimrod in the vehicle I just passed starts to speed up a little, passes me, pulls in front... AND SLOWS BACK DOWN TO 68 MPH! Lather, rinse, repeat.
Keep in mind I haven't changed my rate of speed at all through the whole process, and the guy in the other car is looking at me like I'm some kind of retard. Ugh.
I take drugs seriously.
You're trying to find the pathological case, so you might just refine it to make it impossible, but my solution would be to note that the car at the back of the line is going faster than the other left-lane traffic, realize that he is going to have to pass them, and accelerate above 65mph long enough to pass him before he makes his move. I do this sort of thing routinely.
No, I drive in Oregon and this happens constantly. I'm not making anything pathological, I'm just saying in a lot of circumstances it's bullshit to be able to drive using your cruise control without adjusting.
You have to think ahead, not just react to the current situation. Predicting other drivers' behaviour is actually very easy with enough experience.
In a two lane freeway, you will run into the pigeon hole principle very quickly. It is impossible, no matter how accurately you can predict other drivers, to not have to adjust your speed.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
It would detect impending blue screens of death; and warn the user to shut down IMMEDIATELY.
Why would anyone want to do that?
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
What we really need is a device to detect use of a cellphone in a moving car, and steer well clear of it...
In luxury vehicles it could also fire an EMP pulse thus burning out the phone.
What? Your commute doesn't take three days?
> On the bright side, pay attention to the technologies that SlashDotters are excited about. Linux, Open Source, Macs, TiVOs, MySQL, PHP -- good stuff!
MySQL == "good stuff"? What kind of fucking crack are you smoking?
Man, you MySQL lamers make me laugh. I used to be fond of it too, until I tried PostgreSQL and realized it blows the fucking DOORS off of MySQL.
There is _NO_ reason to choose MySQL over PostgreSQL. Unless you are a fucking moron.