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    Jay Leno Will Put Your Kids To Sleep With Hybrid Car Tech Talk

    Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best

    Audi Shows Cars Can Play Nice, Talk With Each Other To Save Gas, Lives

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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/16/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Will Put Your Kids To Sleep With Hybrid Car Tech Talk
    I like Jay Leno. On his first show this week, he said he traded all his cars in on Cash For Clunkers, and got $5 billion. He really has an incredible car collection. Is he married?
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    Image of Alexander Card Alexander Card
    09/16/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Will Put Your Kids To Sleep With Hybrid Car Tech Talk
    If only we were allowed commentary from inside the mind of Jay Leno which would included musings about setting the article on fire using his nuclear powered flame thrower jet bulldozer he surely owns.

    then it would be interesting.
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    Image of Ted Hamilton Ted Hamilton
    05/17/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    Any duo that "affectionately" refers to a Dodge Dart can't be all that bad...


    And the credits at the end of the show are classic.


    Legal Advice given by: Duey Cheetham and Howe...
    Vacation Planner: Mirasmus B. Draggon

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    05/17/09

    @Ted Hamilton: I believe you're looking for:


    Head of Working Mother Support Group: Erasmus B. Dragon

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    The only "healing" brakes can do is scrape off rust on the friction surface.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    I love it.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    I only recently found out that the "brake" dash indicator also warns for the clutch. Randy was having trouble engaging reverse on his 5-speed. The next day he comes home and says, "oh, great! Now the 'brake' light is lit". Brakes were fine, but the fluid level needed topping up.
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    Image of Wrathernaut Wrathernaut
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    After pestering a guy to change his brakes for months, he asked, "The screeching stopped, does that mean it's ok now?" They were so worn down that the screech tab had broken off. The rivets in the pad were making grooves in his rotors.


    $400 later, I think he's learned his lesson.

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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    05/16/09

    @Wrathernaut: My old man did the same thing once, to the point where the car was deemed too unsafe for me ride in. In my mother's infinite wisdom, she decided it was cheaper to trade in the five-year-old Toyota rather than pay for $500 in brake work.


    It's a wonder I have any common sense at all.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    While I usually can't stand Randall's penchant for doing what's been done better before and his occasional utter creepiness, there are a few occasions on which xkcd really shines.


    This is one of them.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/16/09

    @A stʁolling playeʁ: I mean, like, seriously. Who saw my Facebook status this morning?
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    05/16/09

    @A stʁolling playeʁ:

    I saw it but it didn't register. Now that I've seen this cartoon's reference to Car Talk, I gotta ask if you've picked up some voodoo clairvoyance in the Big Easy...?
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/16/09

    In reply to Of The Potential Responses To My Brakes' Failure, I Did Not Choose The Best
    I try to use the brakes only when necessary. When I'm driving down the road, and I see a light up ahead, I just put the car into neutral and let it coast. I usually just lightly tap the brakes so it stops and I'm all good. This doesn't work in downtown Toronto, however, especially during rush hour. (every hour)
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    Image of The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.
    05/16/09

    @CoЯiolis Eff Smites You With The PoweЯ of BuЯbeЯЯy:

    The most effective way to brake in dt T is to use cabbies. They're usually braking hard enough they can slow a couple cars.
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    Image of AngryChineseDriver hates four-wheeled fatties! AngryChineseDriver hates four-wheeled fatties!
    05/17/09

    @The Dead In Side Group of Companies Ltd: You're a Torontonian, too?? Heart-click!
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    Image of The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.
    05/17/09

    @AngryChineseDriver -- R8 > Megan Fox:

    Used to live in the worst hood dt and commute dt/Gardiner/427.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/17/09

    @The Dead In Side Group of Companies Ltd: I live in Rexdale. On Jane st. near Finch. There's a huge housing project there. Carjackings everyday.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/14/08

    In reply to Audi Shows Cars Can Play Nice, Talk With Each Other To Save Gas, Lives
    I'd like to see cooperative cruise controls. Adaptive CC that backs off in reaction to closing gaps is good, but each car is only reacting to what's going on around it. If the front car in the line could also send a signal to the rest of the pack behind it, then instead of having a reaction progress in a wave to the rear, all vehicles could begin slowing upon receiving the closing-gap signal. That could prevent a bad chain reaction accident, and allow closer gaps for high-speed drafting, which would be great for fuel efficiency.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    11/14/08

    In reply to Audi Shows Cars Can Play Nice, Talk With Each Other To Save Gas, Lives
    Meanwhile, over at BMW, they're still trying to get turn signals to work.
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    Image of SRekauqh SRekauqh
    11/14/08

    In reply to Audi Shows Cars Can Play Nice, Talk With Each Other To Save Gas, Lives
    Did a report on this in college years back. It's a great idea, but only on an information-based level. If the data tells the computer to take over the car from the driver, all hell will break loose. Included in that report was the blind spot notifications seen testing by Volvo. I think these safety systems are a step in the right direction for the majority of drivers on the road, though driver competence/awareness/skill should still be #1 in my book.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    11/14/08

    @SRekauqh: Wow. When I was in college, I did a paper on the folly of 55.

    I'm old.
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    Image of SRekauqh SRekauqh
    11/14/08

    @beercheck: The times are changin'! My prof. used to work for NASA and was interested in all technology so I figured it would be a good presentation.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    11/14/08

    @SRekauqh: I have to agree. Plus, look at you, bustin' it out with authority years later!
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    11/14/08

    In reply to Audi Shows Cars Can Play Nice, Talk With Each Other To Save Gas, Lives
    Can't be repeated enough: Proper traffic management and light timing COULD be the single biggest, cheapest, and quickest solution to the air pollution issue, as well as global warming (IF it turns out to be our fault, that is) and foreign energy dependence.


    But the civil libertarian in me does not like the idea of my car brodcasting anything to the outside world.


    My head a splode.

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    Image of ROCKYLIFE ROCKYLIFE
    11/14/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares:


    Nope, don't even need high tech to solve the issue.


    Simply teach everyone to drive correctly (About 95%+ do not) in heavy traffic.


    Leave one car length between you and the car in front of you, no matter what speed you are traveling at.


    And here's the one that always puts the balls of the testosterone driven in a knot - EVEN if someone pulls into that space, OPEN it up again.


    It's an mathematically and road tested fact that traffic spread out with these expansion spaces will ALWAYS travel faster bthan any other formation of more tightly spaced cars, regardless of the top speed achieved (within the allowed limits on that road).


    It's quite simple, but "everyone" thinks that riding the bumper of the person ahead of them and not allowing anyone to pass them or get in the space in front of them will allow them to go faster. Wrong.

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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    11/14/08

    @ROCKYLIFE: All very true...still no cure for ill-timed traffic lights, though. It amazes me that the laziness of a single traffic engineer is responsible for so much hassle, expense and environmental damage.


    (I've only been commuting on surface streets for 8 months and it's been very eye-opening and enraging)

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