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From: Tegger on 27 Nov 2009 19:45 =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in news:pan.2009.11.28.00.26.48.8176(a)e86.GTS: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:20:40 +0000, Tegger wrote: > >> =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >> wrote in news:pan.2009.11.27.23.09.23.347980(a)e86.GTS: >> >>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:33:31 +0000, Tegger wrote: >>> >>> >> >>>> Hey, I just had a Jimmy Neutron-type Brain Blast! Just remove the >>>> gas pedal from the vehicle entirely. With only a brake pedal to >>>> push, it will be next to impossible to get yourself into an >>>> accident. Problem solved! >>>> >>>> My idea is so brilliant I'll have to consider patenting it. >>> >>> >>> I still think the whole problem is the nut behind the steering >>> wheel. >> >> >> >> Oh, the "loose nut" theory again, huh? >> >> How about we drill the nut and safety-wire it, like on an old race >> car? The nut might complain a bit, especially during the drilling >> part. But hey, it's for his own good, right? > > This could help solve the problem... > > http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mac2311/Racedagje.jpg > > Would drilling those be more fun than drilling a nut? Inquiring minds want to know. -- Tegger
From: dsi1 on 27 Nov 2009 20:25 Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/ wrote: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:20:40 +0000, Tegger wrote: > >> =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote >> in news:pan.2009.11.27.23.09.23.347980(a)e86.GTS: >> >>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:33:31 +0000, Tegger wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hey, I just had a Jimmy Neutron-type Brain Blast! Just remove the gas >>>> pedal from the vehicle entirely. With only a brake pedal to push, it >>>> will be next to impossible to get yourself into an accident. Problem >>>> solved! >>>> >>>> My idea is so brilliant I'll have to consider patenting it. >>> >>> I still think the whole problem is the nut behind the steering wheel. >> >> >> Oh, the "loose nut" theory again, huh? >> >> How about we drill the nut and safety-wire it, like on an old race car? >> The nut might complain a bit, especially during the drilling part. But >> hey, it's for his own good, right? > > This could help solve the problem... > > http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mac2311/Racedagje.jpg > > > Holy nipple chafe!
From: Tegger on 27 Nov 2009 20:37 Nate Nagel <njnagel(a)roosters.net> wrote in news:heooch02mad(a)news3.newsguy.com: > Ashton Crusher wrote: >> After the news came out about the unintended acceleration problem that >> killed the cop and his family one of the ladies in my office said she >> was ruling out buying a Highlander as a result. She wants to get a >> bigger car for her family and was looking at Highlanders but not >> anymore. Frankly I was amazed that something like this would so >> quickly turn off a buyer. > > I'm not... now I'm not a target buyer for a Prius, I always wondered > about cramming that much electronics into a car and how good an idea it > was to have that much fly by wire stuff, recent events have only made it > less likely for me to buy one. I like nice direct connections between > my feet and the throttle, brakes, clutch etc. - maybe not the most > efficient but definitely the safest. > I've owned cars that had the pedal affixed to the floorboard and pivoted at that connection. This would be counter to the common modern practice of hinging the gas pedal from a pivot point above the driver's foot. It seems to my increasingly ancient and foggy brain that hinging the pedal at the BOTTOM would necessarily prevent a floormat from being able to creep beneath such a floor-hinged pedal. The floor mat might eventually creep on TOP of the pedal and try to hold it down, but I think you'd get a fairly progressive warning as that occurred. So... My first very silly question: Why don't they hinge the gas pedal at the floor anymore? My second very silly question: What was wrong with the old BMC practice of putting a little metal roller on the end of the throttle-pedal rod instead of a great big rubber pad? -- Tegger
From: Tegger on 27 Nov 2009 20:39 dsi1 <dsi1(a)humuhumunukunukuapuapa.org> wrote in news:CZ_Pm.45448$We2.25854(a)newsfe09.iad: > Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/ wrote: >> >> http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mac2311/Racedagje.jpg >> >> >> > > Holy nipple chafe! > I can make them better. I know how. -- Tegger
From: phaeton on 27 Nov 2009 20:39
On Nov 27, 6:45 pm, Tegger <inva...(a)invalid.inv> wrote: > =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> > wrote innews:pan.2009.11.28.00.26.48.8176(a)e86.GTS: > > > > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:20:40 +0000, Tegger wrote: > > >> =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> > >> wrote innews:pan.2009.11.27.23.09.23.347980(a)e86.GTS: > > >>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:33:31 +0000, Tegger wrote: > > >>>> Hey, I just had a Jimmy Neutron-type Brain Blast! Just remove the > >>>> gas pedal from the vehicle entirely. With only a brake pedal to > >>>> push, it will be next to impossible to get yourself into an > >>>> accident. Problem solved! > > >>>> My idea is so brilliant I'll have to consider patenting it. > > >>> I still think the whole problem is the nut behind the steering > >>> wheel. > > >> Oh, the "loose nut" theory again, huh? > > >> How about we drill the nut and safety-wire it, like on an old race > >> car? The nut might complain a bit, especially during the drilling > >> part. But hey, it's for his own good, right? > > > This could help solve the problem... > > >http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Mac2311/Racedagje.jpg > > Would drilling those be more fun than drilling a nut? > Inquiring minds want to know. > > -- > Tegger Makes one wonder how female auto racers fare in a crash whilst in the regulation 5-link harness. |