Author Topic: Mercedes makes a car that's probably smarter than you are. (Read 217 times)

Thrawn · « **on:** November 27, 2002, 03:34:41 PM »

Hot damn! This should be standard on every car.

"If you've totally screwed up and a crash is imminent -- and rest assured the SL is damned pissed at you right now -- the vehicle will deploy the roll bar, ratchet the seat belts, and ready as many of its five air bags as it feels will be necessary to keep idiot you from being killed. It does all this in 0.03 seconds before the crash, after which it will phone in and report the accident. "

http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,44383,FF.html

midnight Target · « **Reply #1 on:** November 27, 2002, 03:46:01 PM »

Now if it would only think up a good excuse to tell the officer.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #2 on:** November 27, 2002, 04:15:04 PM »

Actually the car does that MT! I'm sure its in there somewhere, everything else is...

Thrawn · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2002, 04:16:41 PM »

Apparently the car starts shooting out fifties if it detects a cop on your six.

MrBill · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2002, 04:49:57 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Now if it would only think up a good excuse to tell the officer.

I think that it blames the loose nut behind the wheel.

Gman · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2002, 05:28:58 PM »

You're all wrong. It's a GERMAN car after all.

If it detects five-oh at its six, it merely shuts its engine off, flops back in forth in a series of left and right hand turns, then once the cruiser screeches by, it restarts its motor, and speeds off in another direction for 25 miles.

And let's not forget the driver, who complains endlessly to the manufacturer that the car doesn't accelerate up hills as fast as it should, and that it says that it should be 30 mph faster in the chart some guy made on a photocopier somewhere.

Thrawn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2002, 05:38:52 PM »

LMAO!!

OIO · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2002, 11:12:39 PM »

You just gotta be careful when driving that thing, it might just MUTE you out of the blue

beet1e · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2002, 06:39:11 AM »

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Apparently the car starts shooting out fifties if it detects a cop on your six.

What's that? The $50 bills as bribe money against getting a ticket? My ex-brother in law used to keep a $50 tucked in his driver license wallet.

Maverick · « **Reply #9 on:** November 28, 2002, 12:06:52 PM »

Thrawn,

A car smarter than you covers everything from a state of the art BMW to a Yugo!

Thrawn · « **Reply #10 on:** November 28, 2002, 04:27:46 PM »

Curses!

hawk220 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2002, 08:11:16 PM »

i certainly hope it retracts the beer can holder too!