Snowflake

13.46. Stalled the car at the line. Twice. Luckily for me, I have no concept of shame.

 

First time at a track, had a really great time. Loved it.

At what mph?

It looks nicely done. Depending on when the supacharga was installed I'd be curious when (*if) it's had a replacement clutch installed...

Have you looked at it in person?

So here is the thing about remote shut off....you need a system that can both send and receive direction from a remote source, which is a rare thing right now. Onstar can do it, and I think some Mercedes systems can as well but not every concierge service can do that. Also you need to have a vehicle in which the system is installed - not every Chevy sold has onstar or the potential for onstar.

 

There are plenty of cases where police have contacted onstar and onstar has disabled the vehicle (just google it and within the first 5 hits you'll find both isolated cases and aggregate articles talking about this) but there are a couple of problems with this:

 

1) Onstar is a private sector company not a law enforcement entity and if they police do it to the wrong car there could be constitutional ramifications (like deprivation of use of property).

 

2) Each mfg has its own system and there is no central call number to call in to disable a car. Onstar has proven to be very accessible, but what about MB?

 

3) each system has it's own limitations and there is no industry standardization. Onstar can do almost anything except disable manual systems (i.e. is can't cut your brakes). It can turn off the car, accelerate the car, decelerate the car, and disable or enable the abs. If the car has an electronically controlled trans it may be able to shift it as well. But MB? what can that system do? What about Ford Sync? as far as I know Sync interfaces with Can Bus and can read health info and possibly kill the ignition but can't do nearly what onstar can do.

 

4) abuse of system. Already there is a tinfoil hat brigade that claims the gubment can take over your car and use it to kill you. They aren't wrong as covert operatives have had this tech since the 1960's and have used it in the past but usually it required the operative to install equipment that would physically override operator manual controls (e.g. for carb'ed cars they used to have an RC car style remote servo that an operator could use to work the throttle). Complete remote takeover may be possible now with the advent like systems onstar (DARPA proved they could do it with an impala without ever touching the vehicle) but then who watches the watchmen?

 

5) liability: If an onstar operative kills the ignition and the car stops suddenly and a pursuing police car rams the vehicle and multiple people are hurt - who is liable? Police? onstar operative?

 

this is just off the top of my head, there may be more concerns.

Why not? I'm at cars and coffee almost every weekend. maybe you have met me and don't know it yet.

 

It's not that I love to hear myself talk so much as I love to troll this place a little when the conversation in the thread turns into a lot of Hank Hill and the guys standing in the alley going "Yup"...."yup"...."yup"....(sorry for the dated "King of the Hill" reference, I have been watching the reruns at night lately).

I work in North Dakota and I don't drink coffee

Anybody else think that trooper does not look fit for her job at all?

FemalePoliceLOL

I've been in business for two years here in Columbus. Our old location sucked and nobody knew where we were. This isn't a new venture.

 

It's super easy to start a business here in Ohio. My studios in Florida were MUCH harder to start and required state approval and bonding by the state. Infact the state of Florida has a ballroom dance studio act that all studios must be compliant with.

Fuck Florida

12.9

Probably

This really is a dumb post. You will have these idiots in every sport, not just boating.

It's not so much dumb as it is just rambling nonsense.

I've never met the guy thankfully but I'm sure he loves to hear himself talk...

My ballroom dance studio in 1.5 miles away from Fred Astaire Westerville, 4 miles from Fred Astaire upper Arlington and 3 miles from Arthur Murray. These three studios are apart of huge corporations that put thousands of dollars in advertising and hiring. Each corp does over a Billion dollars a year.

 

Now my little mom and pop studio that has been opened for 7 weeks in our new location has taken over 50% of their clientele. Our revenue has more then double past two months. Our product (knowledge ) that we have is far superior to what they offer.

 

Any small business needs to know their market, what the people want and deliver what is expected or exceed expectations there is always going to be a bigger name out there. As long as the business doesn't try to compete or be that bigger business and sticks with what they do best there is nothing to worry about.

Every time a new pizza joint opens up around me I give it a try a few times but I always end up back at my favorite place eventually once the hype of something new dies down...

7 weeks isn't long enough to think you have taken the market by storm. Good luck in the future...

This says it best

 

"Hearing all these people saying that the trooper should have shot or tazed this women cracks me up because you know if she had done either of those things then the same people would be lined up in front of the media yelling "Black Lives Matter!""

"Hands up, don't shoot"