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Re: Driverless cars
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2018, 11:08:22 PM »
  I foresee an "Italian Job" event.   8)

Nice, I’ll get in on that action, Charlize Theron involved?
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« Reply #31 on: March 04, 2018, 12:02:51 AM »
  I foresee an "Italian Job" event.   8)


Nice, I’ll get in on that action, Charlize Theron involved?
Cheers
No, just a younger hotter version of her coming along the conveyor belt.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2018, 12:14:54 AM by deathsled »
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« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2018, 12:14:21 AM »
  I foresee an "Italian Job" event.   8)

I thought he meant the ending of this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqtNThufkk

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« Reply #33 on: March 04, 2018, 12:16:18 AM »
  I foresee an "Italian Job" event.   8)

I thought he meant the ending of this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqtNThufkk
That is a great scene.  I wonder if it was a real Lamborghini Miura...

Addendum...it was not destroyed.  Found by two British businessmen in 2015.  Oh excuse me "businesspersons."  LOL!

"Mr Tyrrell learned that the thrilling sequence that opens The Italian Job was shot using two cars – both supplied by Lamborghini, but one of them was already smashed up.

It is the first, intact, car that has now been found. Mr Tyrrell said: ‘The Italian Job Lamborghini is the holy grail of supercars precisely because no one knew what happened to it after the film. I have a life-long passion for these cars but I just assumed this particular vehicle was out of reach.’

As the Miura is still in near-mint condition, Mr Tyrrell – who owns Cheshire Classic Cars – was able to cross-reference its original features with stills from the film. He has also checked the car’s history at the Lamborghini archive. He said: ‘After inspecting the car, there is no doubt in my mind that it is the Miura from The Italian Job."



« Last Edit: March 04, 2018, 12:21:33 AM by deathsled »
"Low she sits on five spoke wheels
Small block eight so live she feels
There she's parked beside the curb
Engine revving to disturb
She's the princess from his past
Red paint gold stripes damned she's fast"

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« Reply #34 on: March 04, 2018, 12:19:53 AM »

That is a great scene.  I wonder if it was a real Lamborghini Miura...

Gawd I hope not.

IMO the Miura SV is the most beautiful car ever penned (yes, I know that one isn't and SV)   ;)

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« Reply #35 on: March 04, 2018, 12:26:07 AM »
Here's one burning to the ground in England.  Heart wrenching to see.  The horn goes off at 51 seconds as if the car is crying out in pain to be saved.  I believe it was a gas line leaking onto a hot manifold.  I keep a fire extinguisher in the Hertz.  I probably should have two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqpa1HB-wOc

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Small block eight so live she feels
There she's parked beside the curb
Engine revving to disturb
She's the princess from his past
Red paint gold stripes damned she's fast"

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« Reply #36 on: March 04, 2018, 12:27:28 AM »
^^^^^Yeah I have seen that.    :(

Fires have been the demise of many a great car. Smart on the extinguisher.

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« Reply #37 on: March 04, 2018, 01:01:56 AM »
 Back to the Ticket.

Many operators keep their laser or radar shut off. They randomly pick cars based on sight guessing your speed or turn it on at the very last second. Some even wait for only sports cars.

Sounds like your guy was in a zone where the road is clear and the limit set too low. Easy pickings.

Sometimes even a great detector won’t save you. Sorry about the news.

Officer: I clocked you doing 100 MIles per hour...
Me: I know Officer... but I was only planing on driving half.. an hour.. ;)

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« Reply #38 on: March 04, 2018, 01:13:08 AM »
LOL!  Yeah, instant on I suspect was at issue here.  My detector has saved me on so many occasions.  Even caught a laser in Michigan from over a mile away.  I sailed under the "laser" so to speak as opposed to "radar."  Various apps can assist in making the appropriate speed modification as well so I am not deterred.  Just need to modernize.  I got a supervision which drops off of my record in three months.  The "I'm a lawyer" defense did not work on the bitchy prosecutor.  Cop showed too so it was a no go on a dismissal.  I think I am good.  Three movers in Illinois is an automatic suspension of one's license.  Only on number one.  But still..."Give me fuel give me fire give me that which I desire." Metallica
"Low she sits on five spoke wheels
Small block eight so live she feels
There she's parked beside the curb
Engine revving to disturb
She's the princess from his past
Red paint gold stripes damned she's fast"

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« Reply #39 on: March 04, 2018, 01:31:12 AM »
Sounds like you are fully sorted.
Modernize is the key word. Just really is the pits when it is in a low speed zone and you get dinged.

As you said though... think of all those other times when you somehow got  by without getting a ticket.

Pay it and take the lumps... two to go.

Two power settings: On and Off.

I asked my son one day.. What’s that smoke in the rear view mirror?... he replied.. The tires Dad...

Enough said on that :)

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« Reply #40 on: March 04, 2018, 02:10:03 PM »
My concern with driver less cars is the hacking of the operating systems, leading to abysmal and dangerous results.  My reference to the "Italian Job" is the hacking of traffic controls (both versions of the movie) and the resulting chaos. One accident too Mini. 8)

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« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2018, 02:36:59 PM »
Mars already has driverless rovers.
That's Barsoom, to us natives. ::)
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« Reply #42 on: March 26, 2018, 08:01:00 AM »
I'll be taking my first ride in a driverless car when I'm on the way to the cemetery to be planted 6 feet under.

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