From: hippo on
Bernd Felsche wrote:
>
> Doug Jewell <ask(a)and.maybe.ill.tell.you> wrote:
> >Sekula wrote:
> >> http://fat.ly/973yb
>
> >Hmmm...
> >So, we have one of two scenarios:
> >1. there are a lot of stupid drivers around, who all happen
> >to drive toyota priarses. (ok, it is tempting to say their
> >choice of vehicle proves their low intelligence).
>
> Gullibility.
>
> >2. quite likely that there is a fault in the computer
> >control of the throttle-by-wire, where it seems the computer
> >"locks-up" and no longer responds to input from the driver.
>
> Much as I despise the waste of the Pious, those computers have at
> least one watchdog timer that issues an interrupt if the watchdog
> isn't tickled regularly by the working computer. Safely-critical
> systems have hardware interrupts wired to the real world that cannot
> be ignored; and are serviced by the interrupt handler.
>
> >If this is the case, then I doubt the computer could be
> >relied upon to accurately record events such as brake pedal
> >press, so IMO just because the computer says it wasn't
> >pressed, doesn't provide any proof one way or the other.
>
> It provides the information that the computer didn't believe that
> the pedal had been pressed. It's a step forward, but it doesn't
> justify a leap to a conclusion.

It;s all the fault of those bloody aliens....

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From: Neil Gerace on
Mickel wrote:

> Get yourself a "package deal", a new husband with a lambo.

Make sure he hasn't bought it but borrowed it from a client, in case it gets impounded.
From: Sekula on

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:990c9c57-7a3d-4726-bb92-d1700817ca09(a)l11g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 19, 11:02 am, "Sekula" <nore...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be
> our doubts of today.

No, it will be other people's doubts of today. There are plenty of
real scientists out there pushing the envelope, but because they don't
agree with 100-year-old science they are considered crackpots. Just
like all the good scientists before them were considered crackpots.

Just like Prius owners were considered crackpots too?...


From: Albm&ctd on
In article <hnvrog$k8d$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
am9obmhAc2hvYWwubmV0LmF1(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au says...
> Sylvia Else wrote:
> >
> > On 19/03/2010 3:48 PM, hippo wrote:
> > > Sylvia Else wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 19/03/2010 11:23 AM, PaulpULVITZKA wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> and
> > >>> not worry about thinking and driving the thing, just sit and relax.
> > >>
> > >> I'd like one of those. When will they be available?
> > >>
> > >> Sylvia.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Been around for years - it's called 'public transport'
> > >
> >
> > I must have overlooked the "relax" aspect.
> >
> > Sylvia.
> >
> >
>
> From my observations there seem to be two options:
> Gen Y - have your ipod so loud that you're oblivious to the fact that
> everyone else is quite angrily unable to relax;
> The rest of us - find a book so absorbing that not only do you lose track
> of your surroundings, but occasionally you actually get carried past your
> station!
>
The Idiots Guide to Surviving a Train Crash.

Al
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