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Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2
An anonymous reader writes "As a sequel to the previous Slashdot story where a car 'began accelerating to 120 mph on its own', Renault (the car manufacturer) has examined the supposed faulty car, and as many of us have suspected, no anomaly has been found (google translation). Renault will initiate a court action to discover the truth about the matter. Read more about it here (translation)."
He just wanted to get to work on time.
Was the name of the car KIT? :)
Oh great, a car going on rampage. As if drunken and irresponsible humans didn't make the streets unsafe enough already.
Oooh 1/2 person pods... Perfect for my 2 1/2 children!
There is clearly nothing wrong with the vehicle. Anyway, how could the company that brought you LeCar ever do wrong?
"I think it turned out that the accelerator and brake were too close together and people were hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake."
You are correct, that is exactly what was happening. Audi went ahead and made the stupid move to put more distance between the gas pedal and the brake pedal for the idiots over here in the US that have fat asses and feet.
Mmmm, car porn. Young, dumb, and full of hi-test.
Every full moon my friend lives in fear of his life as his Were-car tries to kill him.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
DOUGAL: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
TED: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film, you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
DOUGAL: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. Driving all over the place and going mad. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.
Anxiety \Anx*i"e*ty\ - n ; finding yourself behind a pinto and in front of an Audi 5000
I bet the cruise control has a hidden program to accelerate constantly when Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55" comes on over the speakers.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
WTF, even if the brake pedal (hello, aren't we still on hydraulic brakes???) wouldn't stop the car, couldn't he have shifted it into neutral?
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that
Something similar happened to me but with my computer instead of with my car. I was attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn incessantly. In my panic I didn't think of pulling the power cord, and I had to download porn for many hours.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
A similar problem almost put Audi out of business in the 80's because of a "story" on 60 Minutes
Yes, but it did give rise to the funniest automotive acronym I've ever heard:
AUDI - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.
Right up there with:
Fiat: Fix it again, Tony!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Growing up, my parents had a huge Chevy Caprice Classic two-door. Family trips were a blast with the runaway cruise control! Get on the interstate and set the cruise to 60-whatever MPH, then sit back and relax. Before long, you'd be doing 70, then 75, 80, and so on.
My dad was great. He'd look at me in the rear view mirror, wink, and quietly point to the speedometer. After a while, mom would say something like: "It seems like we're going kind-of fast. How fast are... [glances to dash] OH MY GOD! SLOW DOWN!!!" I love family vacations.
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
Ahh the memories, My old Chevy Silverado used to have a short in the right blinker that would activate the cruise control. "Don't forget the turn signal" I would always remind my friends as we pass a car, their face would go white as gas pedal magically would drop to the floor.
I recall an aircraft demonstrated at Farnborough way back when fly by wire was a new buzzword. The pilot had been told that the plane was completely idiot proof, so he decided to test this by instructing it to raise the undercarriage on the runway. Apparently the designers hadn't imagined anyone would be quite that stupid, and he totalled the plane.
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"But we're French, we don't even have a word for victory!"
http://xkcd.com/386/
FORD - First On Race Day.
that's not how you spell Ferrari!
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
...able to stop close to Riom (Puy-de-Dome).
I love listening to people who speak French, but when I read it phonetically I can't help but think of Inspector Clouseau.
"Is that your minkey?"
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
See that's the first problem. You cut the engine when that happens. Would have been much safer.
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You posted a link to Geocities on Slashdot ?!? Did you honestly think anyone would be able to see that ?
What the heck have you been smoking, dude ?
--LordPixie
>> attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn
> To avoid that, never use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Internet Explorer.
Actually, several programs went crazy all at once: BitTorrent, Kazaa, eDonkey, GNUtella, even FTP! It was very scary that all of those applications could take over my computer for hours and hours the way they did. Even scarier was the way I was forced to sit and watch them the entire time.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
and the most policitally incorrect one...
PONTIAC
Poor Old N(insert rest of racially derogitory(sp?) term that rhymes with trigger) Thinks Its A Caddy
Insert funny smart-ass comment here.