OK, so I've noticed a big problem with your cars. You see, people regularly die in them. Pretty often. Probably at a rate of one or two a day. Maybe more, I'm not actually at all intelligent or willing to take the 30 seconds it might take to find the stats on google. Hey, I'm a slashdotter. Ignorance is, mostly, bliss. At any rate, I can't believe you haven't included a few basic ideas that might make your cars much safer.
First off, your cars could be much more sturdy. I've noticed that, for the most part you use sheet metal, some plastic and a lot of alluminum to fabricate your little death sleds. You should probably look into plate steel and titanium. The fact that you haven't already shows that you are obviously don't like your customers. Nevermind that these extra features would raise the price significantly, but we're talking saftey here. I also understand that these ideas would make cars much heavier, thus resulting in higher fuel consumption and slower vehicles, but in the interest of safety this should be a small trade off. And don't worry about design. People won't care how it looks just as long as it keeps them safe.
Secondly, I've noticed a bunch of huge holes in the safety of your cars and trucks. Sure, you like to give them nice, cute names like "doors" and "windows" but, really, they pose a huge risk! I mean, look at the typical window. Anything could come through that. The windsheild, too. Not to mention the big hole that's supposed to let people in and out greatly reduces the structural integrety of the entire vehicle. I shudder to think about all those four door, 8+ windowed harbingers of death and maiming that have been set loose on our nations highways. I think you should really think about replacing them with a series of hatches and slits, or, better yet, cameras. The average driver shouldn't mind getting in through a small trap door on the roof. Works for tank drivers and other professionals who have to rely on really secure vehicles in combat areas, so it should work for every driver everywhere.
In other areas, you could also improve. I mean, what's with your dealerships not performing repairs on stolen vehicles? I had a, um, friend who took a stolen Ford in for an oil change and your guys just wanted to call the cops on him. You call that customer service? He was going to pay and everything, you know. Why should you care if he stole it? At least he's driving a Ford. It's not like you can't make more. That dealer had a bunch before he took it, anyways. Not like he could afford one of your new models, so you didn't even loose out on a sale.
I'd also like to suggest that you remove the obviously ill-concieved link between the fuel tank and the engine. I mean, what happens if I put something bad in the tank? What's to stop it from going all the way into the engine? I guess that's kind of the point of connecting the two, but it should stop. I can't be trusted (and neither can your other customers!) to know where I should fill up and what I should put in.
Also, why won't all parts work in my car? I mean, I'm really ticked because the new Saab alternators are the bomb and they just don't fit in my car. I also understand that Ford parts don't fit in a Saab, but that's more your problem than theirs because, well, Saab is just better and they have a cooler president and neat features like a cool name and, among the people I hang out with, it's popular to drive one. Plus, not as many people die in Saabs. Must be because they're better cars.
Anyways, just a couple of ideas I have. Hope you take them into consideration. I mean, afterall, you're not trying to make a car for everyone, just the one that makes slashdot happy.
Sincerly,
Jester6641
Slashdot reader 909919 and expert on everything.
OK, all I have to say is that I will name my first child after the one who first gives me a MacBook tri-booting (is that even a word/concept?) OS X/Linux/Windows XP Pro. Email me when it's done, and I'll send you my address...
Hear that? Right now, someone on Slashdot just lost their social life. While others are surpised that someone here could actually produce a child.
Hey, I've worked at a Chinese school. You should be concerned about Chinese degrees. Most of the papers I recieved got big "F"s after I'd put the first line into google and find the whole thing written already. I have no doubt that the loss of Wikipedia means a significant loss of readable English papers in the halls of higher education throughout China.
Read this article and then go play sudoku in your paper (don't know what it is? do a search, and you will learn). I think my head my just explode in a moment. I keep seeing entanglements and cat states.
this box is both a "9" and "8" until i pick one. But the box all the way over there that's an "8" means that this can't be, but that it might be a "6" instead. So if this is "6" than i know that is "8" and therefore that one is "9". Dang Einstein ruining a good game even after he's dead.
I understand why they pulled it. Think about it...you've managed to collect about 10 people with a lot of money and bad reputations, along with about 10 people with a lot of money and a lot to loose to the people with the bad reputations. They're all there and you offer for auction the world's best superweapon. We'll call it a frickin' laser for the sake of argument. So you start bidding on the frickin' laser at $.01 and somebody dishonest makes an offer. This is immediately followed by another dishonest guy who wants it for himself, then an honest guy that doesn't want either of them to have it, then by another honest guy that doesn't know guy 3 was, in fact, honest and is just trying to save his own hide. Who's going to win? Well, it'll be the guy with the most chips to bet, but everyone's going to be on pins and needles to see which side of the fence he's on. It's basically holding all 20 people hostage to themeslves and seeing what shakes out. Pretty slick marketing if you think about it.
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OK, so I've noticed a big problem with your cars. You see, people regularly die in them. Pretty often. Probably at a rate of one or two a day. Maybe more, I'm not actually at all intelligent or willing to take the 30 seconds it might take to find the stats on google. Hey, I'm a slashdotter. Ignorance is, mostly, bliss. At any rate, I can't believe you haven't included a few basic ideas that might make your cars much safer.
First off, your cars could be much more sturdy. I've noticed that, for the most part you use sheet metal, some plastic and a lot of alluminum to fabricate your little death sleds. You should probably look into plate steel and titanium. The fact that you haven't already shows that you are obviously don't like your customers. Nevermind that these extra features would raise the price significantly, but we're talking saftey here. I also understand that these ideas would make cars much heavier, thus resulting in higher fuel consumption and slower vehicles, but in the interest of safety this should be a small trade off. And don't worry about design. People won't care how it looks just as long as it keeps them safe.
Secondly, I've noticed a bunch of huge holes in the safety of your cars and trucks. Sure, you like to give them nice, cute names like "doors" and "windows" but, really, they pose a huge risk! I mean, look at the typical window. Anything could come through that. The windsheild, too. Not to mention the big hole that's supposed to let people in and out greatly reduces the structural integrety of the entire vehicle. I shudder to think about all those four door, 8+ windowed harbingers of death and maiming that have been set loose on our nations highways. I think you should really think about replacing them with a series of hatches and slits, or, better yet, cameras. The average driver shouldn't mind getting in through a small trap door on the roof. Works for tank drivers and other professionals who have to rely on really secure vehicles in combat areas, so it should work for every driver everywhere.
In other areas, you could also improve. I mean, what's with your dealerships not performing repairs on stolen vehicles? I had a, um, friend who took a stolen Ford in for an oil change and your guys just wanted to call the cops on him. You call that customer service? He was going to pay and everything, you know. Why should you care if he stole it? At least he's driving a Ford. It's not like you can't make more. That dealer had a bunch before he took it, anyways. Not like he could afford one of your new models, so you didn't even loose out on a sale.
I'd also like to suggest that you remove the obviously ill-concieved link between the fuel tank and the engine. I mean, what happens if I put something bad in the tank? What's to stop it from going all the way into the engine? I guess that's kind of the point of connecting the two, but it should stop. I can't be trusted (and neither can your other customers!) to know where I should fill up and what I should put in.
Also, why won't all parts work in my car? I mean, I'm really ticked because the new Saab alternators are the bomb and they just don't fit in my car. I also understand that Ford parts don't fit in a Saab, but that's more your problem than theirs because, well, Saab is just better and they have a cooler president and neat features like a cool name and, among the people I hang out with, it's popular to drive one. Plus, not as many people die in Saabs. Must be because they're better cars.
Anyways, just a couple of ideas I have. Hope you take them into consideration. I mean, afterall, you're not trying to make a car for everyone, just the one that makes slashdot happy.
Sincerly,
Jester6641
Slashdot reader 909919 and expert on everything.
OK, all I have to say is that I will name my first child after the one who first gives me a MacBook tri-booting (is that even a word/concept?) OS X/Linux/Windows XP Pro. Email me when it's done, and I'll send you my address... Hear that? Right now, someone on Slashdot just lost their social life. While others are surpised that someone here could actually produce a child.
Hey, I've worked at a Chinese school. You should be concerned about Chinese degrees. Most of the papers I recieved got big "F"s after I'd put the first line into google and find the whole thing written already. I have no doubt that the loss of Wikipedia means a significant loss of readable English papers in the halls of higher education throughout China.
Read this article and then go play sudoku in your paper (don't know what it is? do a search, and you will learn). I think my head my just explode in a moment. I keep seeing entanglements and cat states. this box is both a "9" and "8" until i pick one. But the box all the way over there that's an "8" means that this can't be, but that it might be a "6" instead. So if this is "6" than i know that is "8" and therefore that one is "9". Dang Einstein ruining a good game even after he's dead.
I understand why they pulled it. Think about it...you've managed to collect about 10 people with a lot of money and bad reputations, along with about 10 people with a lot of money and a lot to loose to the people with the bad reputations. They're all there and you offer for auction the world's best superweapon. We'll call it a frickin' laser for the sake of argument. So you start bidding on the frickin' laser at $.01 and somebody dishonest makes an offer. This is immediately followed by another dishonest guy who wants it for himself, then an honest guy that doesn't want either of them to have it, then by another honest guy that doesn't know guy 3 was, in fact, honest and is just trying to save his own hide. Who's going to win? Well, it'll be the guy with the most chips to bet, but everyone's going to be on pins and needles to see which side of the fence he's on. It's basically holding all 20 people hostage to themeslves and seeing what shakes out. Pretty slick marketing if you think about it.