Professur

This car was designed with back up cameras and blind spot sensors in mind. Buying it without is asking for higher insurance.

The missus has a 2014 Sonic ... terrible blindspots. Honestly, I've driven delivery vans with better visibility.

Now why would he do that when Hyundai has a 5.0 for the Genesis that makes more power than the car can handle?

I've said many times ... if you want to kill someone .. go get drunk and drive into them on the road (without talking about it). Penalties are absurdly low for what by rights should be clear cut homoside.

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/09/27/22755292.html

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The 20-year-old Eganville man charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death in the wake of a fiery crash in Arnprior was under a lifetime driving ban.

Sheila Welsh, 65, a grandmother of five, died Monday when her car was struck on the driver’s side by a stolen silver Ford F150. Police were pursuing the stolen truck at the time. A witness said the speeding truck dragged Welsh’s small sedan about 100 metres down Daniel Street before finally coming to a stop and bursting into flames.

The province’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the incident. So far, three subject officers and six witness officers have been designated as part of the investigation, said a spokeswoman for the SIU on Wednesday.

Zachary Lee Wittke, 20, is to appear in court in Pembroke on Friday morning. He faces charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, flight while pursued by police, theft of a motor vehicle and operating a vehicle while disqualified.

In April 2016, Wittke was sentenced to two years in jail and two years of parole after he pleaded guilty to theft of a vehicle, possession of a weapon, uttering a death threat and threatening a peace officer after he filmed himself driving a stolen truck and posted the clip to Facebook in January 2016.

In the clip, Wittke claimed he was “homicidal and suicidal,” and challenged police to come after him, saying, “If you chase me, I will make sure someone dies. I dare you to chase me and see if I am joking.”

He then claimed to be armed with a hammer, knife and ratchet before threatening, “I will kill a police officer.”

OPP in Killaloe were notified of the video, and later found the stolen truck abandoned near Ottawa.

At the same time, Ottawa police were called to the Chapters bookstore on Pinecrest Road, where Wittke was barricaded in a bathroom. He was taken into custody following a brief standoff.

At the sentencing, Justice Robert Selkirk also imposed a lifetime driving ban and a 10-year weapons ban on Wittke. He was also ordered to submit a DNA sample.

In 2013, Wittke, then 16, and an unnamed 13-year-old girl drew international attention after they were arrested in Maine after racing across the U.S. border in a chase involving a series of stolen vehicles and collisions with border patrol vehicles.

A Maine court sentenced Wittke to 30 days in jail on a charge of aggravated assault for ramming a U.S. border guard’s vehicle, injuring the guard.

Alright ... and? What's the rest of the story. That's the past .. what's this car's future?

And you thought Chevy's sucked ....

It's a bloody shame, that's what it is.

Reading this morning that a Texas Firefighter's retirement fund is the latest bunch to file suit against Uber. Reportedly, they average 1.8 lawsuits per day.  Damn ... you'd think Trump was their CEO or something.

That's pretty much the definition of Uber ... the taxi service that tries to skirt the need for a taxi permit.

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Uber is threatening to leave the Canadian province of Quebec because of "severe" new rules aimed at regulating the company like taxis.

The ride-sharing company threatened on Tuesday to leave by mid-October if the government implements new regulations.

The new rules would require Uber drivers to get police background checks and 35 hours of training, up from 20.

The regulations come a year after the provincial government agreed to let Uber operate on a trial basis.

"We are going to have to cease our operations in Quebec on October 14," said Jean-Nicolas Guillemette, director general of Uber Quebec.

The company said it could change its mind if the government reconsidered the regulations.

"We're asking the government to renew the pilot project and let's sit down and find a solution to this," he said.

The company has 50 office staff and about 10,000 drivers across Quebec, which includes Canada's second largest city, Montreal.

Is Uber harming the traditional taxi?

The new rules, announced on Friday, require drivers to have the same amount of training as taxi drivers - 35 hours up from 20 - before they can pick up passengers.

They also require drivers to get a police background check, as opposed to going through a private company.

When Uber first starting talking to Quebec's government about operating in the province, in May 2016, the province made it clear Uber would have no advantage over the taxi industry, which is strictly regulated.

Mr Guillemette accused the transport minister Jacques Daoust then of "living in the past".

On Friday, London, announced it would not renew Uber's licence to operate, citing concerns for public safety and security.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has since decided to sit down with the company and received an apologetic letter.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41406850#

It's also called 'making sure that pesky 4 wheeler can't exit for the next 40 miles' in common trucker lingo.

Older cases are the perfect thickness for auto body rust repair.  An old AT case can carry a 75lbs monitor and average 14ga. My old Sonoma's entire floor and much of the firewall was Compaq. You could say it was a compaq truck .... if you were the type to go for a lame joke like that ....

That and they're generally free for the taking.

At the price of keys today ... I think that bumps the charges up to grand larceny territory.

As they say ... Russians can build cars to handle Canuck winters ... French can build cars to carry bread home from the market.

Disgusting that it's necessary to work on brakes. Something like this should by necessity be automatically included with that ABS module. There's also a required tool to hold the partitioning valve centred ... needs 2 of them for the 4 wheel ABS.  J39177. $20 a piece .. I can make them with some old computer case tabs that I've got lying about.

I'm curious how much input the Frogs have had.  It's a Lada I want, not the latest Le Car.

OK, short update. Finally some good news.  Turns out that my Snap On MT-2500 WILL cycle the GMCs abs solenoids ... but not with any of the normal Primary cartridges. But the black VCI module will. A browse of Fleabay turned up several, but averaging over $200 each .. but then I found someone, probably a liquidator, selling bits and pieces of a MT-2500 kit individually. He had the Vehicle Communication Interface and the Troubleshooter interface both for under $140US. Snapped it up and that's that. Went looking for the personality key ... k9 for GMs ... turns out that key doesn't look like much more than a jumper. The traces are visible and I don't think I'll have any need to buy one to copy it.

JOY!!!!!

Big whoop. Show me stopping and starting every 100 feet. In -20C with snow on the road.

Yer welcome anytime ... just take what you see. Hell, any roofers here? The cottage roof is a simple affair but needs done pronto.

What I want to see is if the flashers work. I've never seen a BMW with working ones.

It takes a pro about 10 minutes to clone a phone.

Self guided Challenger ... I wonder that it's protocol is for rabbits?

It's always been my understanding that you're best to leave sleeping dogs lie.  I definitely would not use air in any way.  Run the hot water heater up as high as it'll go, and empty it through the block as a clean water flush and leave it at that. No high pressure needed ... with the maze of passages, your pressure isn't going to do anything anyhow.  Thermal expansion and contraction means anything stuck to the walls is well stuck and not going anywhere. Anything else and you're poking a wasp nest with a stick.

Saw them prominently portrayed in several of Streetspeed717's videos of recent.