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To: BenLurkin

This is story going around for years, but SUPPOSEDLY someone in an RV actually pressed the “cruise control” button on the stalk, got out of the driver’s seat, and went in the back for a snack. And that was in the transistor and vacuum bellows era. Today, we have much more sophisticated levels of stupidity.


6 posted on 04/26/2021 2:26:08 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
This is story going around for years, but SUPPOSEDLY someone in an RV actually pressed the “cruise control” button on the stalk, got out of the driver’s seat, and went in the back for a snack. And that was in the transistor and vacuum bellows era.

That case actually made it into some of the case law books. The RV company actually CALLED the feature "Auto-Pilot" (my '65 Chrysler 300 did the same), and the fellow who engaged it was Japanese.
34 posted on 04/26/2021 4:28:07 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: The Antiyuppie

I remember that story.


47 posted on 04/26/2021 6:13:53 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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