‘Faulty’ BMW parking-assist function caused car to accelerate and mount the hood of another car. If you drive or are around BMW’s be careful, it’s mating season!
‘Faulty’ BMW parking-assist function caused car to accelerate and mount the hood of another car
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Looks like Harvey Swinesteing needs to make a move about banning "assault cars" and have Meryl Streep star in it....It'll make BMW wish they were never born.....
http://moonbattery.com/?p=41312
Blaming the car for his lousy driving? This guy has got to be a Dem.
It had an "Obama" moment: "I want that spot!" Or: "If you like your parking spot you can keep your parking spot... just under my car."
I don't know if it will qualify as an “Obama” moment.....It's not a train wreck.
Clever.
Heidi!
Is the new pic of grandpa holding the baby?
Yeah, cute kid!
boychik?
Yeah, going baseball glove shopping here in a few ;)
http://media.caller.com/media/img/photos/2012/08/24/Twins_Rangers_Basebal_Alle_t607.jpg
Yeah, I don't think that'll buff out...
Skip to 1:40 if you don't have 2 minutes **language**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN_Nod65e7o
library lol.
Awesome tool kit.
Too bad some great lines were uttered by that asshole.
You ain't seen nothin', yet - just wait until ALL cars are "driven" by something other than the driver...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/10570935/Autonomous-cars-is-this-the-end-of-driving.html
They just started licensing driverless cars in Michigan. When I was in Reno, Nevada became the first state to license driverless cars. It's like I'm being followed by driverless cars. I'm thinking of turning my life story into a movie - I'll call it: I, Robotcar.
to my mind it'd be a HUGE improvement over yankee drivers.
Hey wait a minute! I'll have you know I collected a speeding ticket for going over 100 mph once, and that was back when Jimmy Carter had the speed limit at 55. I'm pretty sure that means I'm a good driver.
the exception that proves the rule.
also: I'm less inclined to consider Min eh soda a yankee state. Maybe more of a Southern Canadian Province, esp. considering your motto L'Etoile du Nerd.
;)
I'm in Michigan. We don't like Minnesota. There is a point west of Isle Royale, out in Lake Superior, where the Minnesota and Michigan borders meet at a single geometric point and that point grates on us, like a tic in our backside.
Michiganders are definitely Yankees. We generally line up en masse when there's a war on, don't ask me why, and the Civil War was no exception. We were all over that damn war. Don't ask me why since we'd only been a state for about 30 years so we didn't have a whole lot invested in the notion of a United States. General Custer of Little Bighorn fame was a Michigander. (And he acted like one: spoiling for a fight even if it was one he couldn't win.) The only reason he got to be a general was because of the Civil War - the dumbass graduated last in his class at West Point but the war assured him of a job anyway. I credit his bravery to his time in Michigan and I blame his stupidity on the fact that after high school he received further education in Ohio. There's almost nothing dumber than a Buckeye. I'm sure his time in Ohio destroyed whatever brain cells he'd developed in Michigan.
the mitten state.
soz, idk why i did that.
Hey, we're really neighbors. I have only 2 reasons for living where I do. at any rate. yeah Michigan. i won't comment on Colonel Custer, I ain't got no use for him.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p9n1USGyY5w/TYK-vRUZvEI/AAAAAAAAFeg/8cTMwHyPowM/s1600/Lansing%2Band%2Bst%2Blouis%2B016.jpg
The driver is obviously an idiot. Number one, the function is for parallel parking and that is clearly not parallel parking. Number two, the accelerator isn't automated (according to BMW) so there's no way the car suddenly became possessed and accelerated. He hit the gas instead of the brake and now he's whining that it's someone else's fault.
And oh, by the way, it looks like there's a million empty parking spots, so why would he use parking assist?
Because progressives are too stupid to read the manual. They think it's like autopilot, they tell it where to go and fall asleep in the back seat.
You mean like the moron in the Winnebago who put on the cruise control while travelling down the interstate at 70 mph and then proceeded to go back to the kitchen to make coffee?
He thought the cruise control was auto-pilot.
Isn't 'parking assist' for an expensive car known as a 'valet'?
It's like the driver who drives into a lake because the GPS told them to turn right even though there was clearly no road to turn onto to drive.
I remember when the couple drove into the Pacific Ocean because of GPS. C'mon, people - you couldn't see the largest body of water in the world?
The BMW is just proving its dominance.
That beemer was just randy is all. At least it didn't try hump the trunk.
Its main mistake was breaking out the wood on their first parking experience, you got to be safe, accidents cause people.
What would you call their kids? HummerSans?
What would you get if you mated an Edsel with a Yugo? A Progressive.