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Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics
cyclocommuter writes with an excerpt from a brief WSJ story on increasing electronic control of car components: "The gas pedal system used Toyota Motor Co.'s recall crisis was born from a movement in the auto industry to rely more on electronics to carry out a vehicle's most critical functions. The intricacy of such systems, which replace hoses and hydraulic fluid with computer chips and electrical sensors, has been a focus as Toyota struggled to find the cause for sudden acceleration of vehicles that led the company to halt sales of eight models this week."
People would understand a set of "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" buttons on the dash..
--jeffk++
ipv6 is my vpn
'kill -9 car' works just fine!
Everything else is for n00bs.
Click the processes tab, rightclick on engine.car, then select kill process. Note that powersteering.car will be disabled as well, as it is dependant on engine.car to run.
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
Until you have actually driven a real horse drawn carriage, with no stupid mechanical parts isolating you, you haven't driven. Its a shame really. A new generation will never appreciate what its like to rumble down the road, windows down, with a roar from 6 mighty steads, and having to actually control powerful beasts of burden.
Fixed that for ya. Horses made way for internal combustion engines, and ICEs will make way for drive-by-wire electric cars. Thank goodness for progress.
Are you crazy!?!?
I tried that once and the skin on my arse has never been the same.
'kill -9 engine'
I don't therefore I'm not.
Where's the bad analogy? I feel cheated.
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