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BMW's Smart Car Doors Stay Shut When Danger Is Around

Posted April 08, 2009 1:30 PM

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Getting out of a car parked on a busy street can be dangerous. Good thing BMW has created a prototype of a smart car door that won't open if it detects hazards coming at you. BMW has teamed up with Technical University of Munich in creating these smart car doors, which have produced positive results so far. They expect these doors to be available on the market within the next 12 months, although the doors might be licensed to other manufacturers instead of BMW's own cars.

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04/09/2009 5:08 AM

So if it sees a fireman coming to cut you out of the wreckage with an axe...?
This is more classic, "complicate it to the point of uselessness" idiocy.

Now't wrong with the old click down the central locking button.
Next thing you know the damn car will lock you in or out and demand money off you in the form of garrage bills for fixing more errant electronics...Aaaaarrrrggggghhhh

Oh because of course 'bad people' wouldn't break the glass... Or do they have smart glass that breaks itself in anticipation...give me strength .
<slaps furry head with paw>.

Quick everyone...think of more 'non problems' we can solve... I can only assume they are employing droves of Mothers in Law to think up this nonsense...
calm calm... must. have... tea....
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04/10/2009 6:32 AM

The more stuff they add the more I want an old car.

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04/10/2009 6:33 AM

Yeah, too right, I just read your valve straightening exploits...excellent...
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04/10/2009 6:47 AM

I just did a valve job on a dodge van 3.1 engine. Used valve seals on it that came with an only gasket set for a 1990 Lincoln Contenial. lol

Waste not want not.

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04/10/2009 8:57 AM

I am thinking of inventing "self walking shoes". They will put themselves on your feet and force you to walk or run as needed. We have no more need for free will, Had we?

Or perhaps a keyboard that can anticipate what you would type and make corrections for you, or just type what it feels that you should type.

Who is running this asylum???

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04/10/2009 9:26 AM

My key board agrees with you...no I don't
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04/10/2009 10:17 AM

After the "Self Walking Shoes" we can work on the "Sky Hook" and the "Board Stretcher" .

Maybe " TRON " was not just a movie.

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04/10/2009 11:09 AM

I awoke late this morning because I knocked my sentient alarm clock off the night stand yesterday morning and it was still mad at me. I found that my self walking shoes had realized that we were running late so they pressed the automatic start for my car, unfortunately I was very late and,using the cruise control, they left without me. But before leaving the house they notified my automated home alarm system that they were going and the system now has me trapped in my bedroom. The alarm system has informed the automatic thermostat that the alarm clock is angry with me, you see they clock and the thermostat have a thing for eachother, and now the temperature in my room is cycling between broil and freeze.

But this isn't the worst of it. This has happened before. My concern is that so far my self walking shoes have gone to work for me seven times and no one has commented, in fact I hear that my productivity is up when I am not there. Maybe this is a good thing, perhaps we could get a raise??

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04/10/2009 12:13 PM

You really should be writing short stories...
I'm hooked and want to know what happens next.
Go on, I'm curled up all comfy....carry on, do tell.

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04/10/2009 1:01 PM

Hey man you're feakin' me out with big red blocks...

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??? Red Blocks ????

I posted a cartoon did it not appear ????

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04/10/2009 1:29 PM

I posted a cartoon did it not appear ????
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aaarggh the negative question, to which the pedantic answer would be.

'Yes it did 'not appear'... '

That's to say...just big red blocks I'm afraid....
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04/10/2009 9:35 PM

Sorry Dale, I have been spending a lot of time working on my 15 years old's language. He needs to re-learn that words have meanings. His is lazy and does not use the proper words and structure to communicate. He has gotten sloppy and I made a rule for 5 months we all would try to speak proper Engilsh.

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04/10/2009 1:26 PM

Want to freak out save my pic and then view it full full screen for about 10 min.

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Sorry I thought the pic would post not a red block.

Here is the link.

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/090408/cx_workingdaze_umedi/20090804

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