Posted on 06/26/2014 11:25:18 AM PDT by beaversmom
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) was invited Tuesday, along with fellow members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, to test drive — er, test ride — a driverless car on the Capitol grounds.
Well, the ride never happened, because Norton did a particularly good job of testing the car’s bright-red “kill” button — which, as captured by WRC-TV’s cameras, killed the car to the point that it could not proceed with the test ride.
“Oh, no, don’t push it!” an engineer from Carnegie Mellon University cried after Norton pounded the mushroom button. “It shuts everything down.”
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Reckon it wasn’t fool-proff after all...
fool-proof?
Proof read much, Jinxy?
You can’t make it fool-proof because fools are too damn ingenious.
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Make the system fool-proof, and they’ll provide you with a bigger fool.
Eventually, you end up with Elanor Holmes-Norton in a driverless car ...
Building something fool proof only seems to build a better fool.
Fast fingers.
You can’t fix stupid and the stupid is strong in that one.
Sheila Jackson-Lee was unavailable. She was testing the new brainless public official robot.
If you’re inventing something fool proof, don’t start testing it with a member of their hall of fame.
A lot of people, including me, would want to know that the STOP button works. Ideally, the car would pull off the traveled portion of the road, before completely shutting down.
Why oh why did I know that’s what she’d look like? Maybe the (D) ?
And I can imagine the superior know it all attitude as well.
The same thing happened to her when she was busted on an episode of “Bait Car”!
Yeah, you’d probably want to start with the lesser fools before smoke testing it against the great fool.
Who over the age of five jumps in a vehicle and just starts pushing buttons, let alone in a prototype vehicle? Is it really that hard to figure out what a “kill” switch does? Or was she just drawn to it because it was bright red or something?
That needs to be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Kudos.
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