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With the exception that there are still dozens of other spaces available in those two photos, I love it.
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Jun 29, 2016 07:26
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Someone posted that in a local facebook group of lovely parking photos and it brought out the crowd that justifies parking in four spaces because someone dinged their door once.
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Jun 29, 2016 07:37
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spog posted:Almost seems designed to kill someone. The BMW i8 is just an endless cavalcade of deliberately designed failure. The emergency openers for the doors are incredibly flimsy and anti intuitive so, when the power fails during an emergency (like the car's on fire) there's a good chance you'll snap the tiny plastic part standing between you and burning to death. It takes two people to open the bonnet and it's almost impossible to do without breaking it and you need to jam it open with a screwdriver to keep it from falling back down. The door for the refuelling point can sometimes take several minutes to open after pressing the button. And all these things were deliberate design decisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 07:51
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mobby_6kl posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePrs5TyE0A Come on guys, that's not smoke, it's steam, and he didn't "deploy" anything, he just blew his engine. Basically he floors it hard, blowing dark smoke like it's running rich, then something pops and it's all steam from there on out. It's funny how the video description implies that the driver did it on purpose so everyone watching assumes that's the case.
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Jun 29, 2016 11:13
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Javid posted:Someone posted that in a local facebook group of lovely parking photos and it brought out the crowd that justifies parking in four spaces because someone dinged their door once. Because, of course, double parking makes it less likely someone will gently caress with their car. Have these people never heard of the back of the lot?
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Jun 29, 2016 14:16
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nm posted:Because, of course, double parking makes it less likely someone will gently caress with their car. Have these people never heard of the back of the lot? America That is why we will not park in the back of the lot. We would have to walk, and it isn't just laziness.. It is beneath us. Think I am off? Just get in an argument with one of us in public, we will tell you. "Do you know who I am!?" or "You don't even know who you are messing with!" Because in our minds we are not a regular drone trying to scratch each others eyes out to survive, we are a rapper, actress, singer, head of a gang, olympian, and soldier all wrapped up in one. We believe this because we spend all our time living vicariously through the people we incessantly follow on TV, music, and the internet through social media instead of looking around ourselves long enough to use a blinker, or park properly.
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Jun 29, 2016 14:32
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They should have sent a poet.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:10
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B4Ctom1 posted:America  All true though. The "American Dream" is a loving disease.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:31
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Should have done it on the passenger side to see if they try to drive off before noticing.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:43
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Unfortunately damaging property has been branded Not Cool(tm) by goons. But it looks like being cheeky is okay.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:47
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I avoid looking at drivers because I don't want to develop prejudices. Everyone is bad including me.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:31
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xzzy posted:Unfortunately damaging property has been branded Not Cool(tm) by goons. But it looks like being cheeky is okay. Oh, it's totally Not Cool, but it also would have been funnier. Frankly, I was torn writing my comment. The irony of damaging your car after parking like an rear end to avoid damaging your car won out.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:33
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Just be a Cool Guy and get a bike, and don't use parking spots at all!
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Jun 29, 2016 17:53
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That looks more like a way to gently caress with a friend than someone who was angry about parking.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:57
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B4Ctom1 posted:America I had something happen the other day, and it was kind of amazing for it's ... stupidity, and transparency. There's a parking lot at a store near where I live, busy, but not horribly tight - people park F250s in it fairly comfortably, F350s would probably be a little interesting, but doable. I pull into a space, perfectly in the lines, between two cars. While I'm in the store, the car to my right/passenger side apparently leaves, and a new one parks in it's place. (The car to THEIR right did not move - still the same car as when I walked away from mine.) When the new car parks, they parked way crooked, and way too far to their left - like, outside edge of the driver front tire is over both of the double lines dividing the space, and within about 2 inches of my front right tire. Rear driver tire is a solid 10-12" inside their space. When I walked up, I honestly thought they'd probably bumped my front right corner. This car ALSO had those bumpers idiots put on their doors, so that they can slam their doors into other peoples cars when dismounting their chariots with impunity. (This is the stupid part.) Unfortunately, they weren't smart enough to figure out which part of their door extends the furthest, and therefore when they did what they likely always do (slam their door into the car next to them, in this case, mine), there was a nice crease placed in my door. So, the transparent part - there were a couple other spaces not further away that I'd been able to observe as available during this time. They picked the one next to mine, if I had to guess, because "oh, it's not a nice car, he won't mind". I wanted to point out to them (but didn't, I'm not the confrontational type) ... if you're going to do that, you might want to think a bit further about it. My car has dents in it because it's a rock crawler, and I'm ok with putting dents in it myself. I'm not ok with other people denting it because they're careless. If I were a less restrained person, I might, for example, be inclined to drag a Mud Terrain down the side of your car as I carelessly pull out of the space. I didn't.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:42
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Gorilla Salad posted:The BMW i8 is just an endless cavalcade of deliberately designed failure. Happened on the drive home from the dealership on the highway.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:46
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Gorilla Salad posted:The BMW i8 is just an endless cavalcade of deliberately designed failure. When did they start allowing marketing twats into engineer meetings? If you have to have a backup mechanical mechanism for when (not if) the main system fails, then what was the loving point of the electronic system in the first place? This is just more dumb poo poo dreamed up by people who have never held a wrench. Touchscreen HVAC systems that take your eyes off the road, keyless entry that makes the car less secure, I could go on and on but I know I'm yelling into the void.
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Jun 29, 2016 20:31
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Gorson posted:When did they start allowing marketing twats into engineer meetings? If you have to have a backup mechanical mechanism for when (not if) the main system fails, then what was the loving point of the electronic system in the first place? This is just more dumb poo poo dreamed up by people who have never held a wrench. Touchscreen HVAC systems that take your eyes off the road, keyless entry that makes the car less secure, I could go on and on but I know I'm yelling into the void. I'm sure they would like to avoid a lawsuit if in the event of an accident/fire, the electronic releases fail and a customer is killed because they couldn't get out. Thats not marketing bullshit, its covering your own rear end with basic safety items.
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Jun 29, 2016 21:39
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Elmnt80 posted:I'm sure they would like to avoid a lawsuit if in the event of an accident/fire, the electronic releases fail and a customer is killed because they couldn't get out. Thats not marketing bullshit, its covering your own rear end with basic safety items. Still a terrible idea even with the mechanical backup. The backups can be intentionally designed to be out of the way or difficult to use (or easy to break in the case of the i8), leading to situations like this: http://www.ibtimes.com/texas-mans-death-chevy-corvette-raises-questions-about-overuse-electronics-cars-1963858
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Jun 29, 2016 21:48
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Elmnt80 posted:I'm sure they would like to avoid a lawsuit if in the event of an accident/fire, the electronic releases fail and a customer is killed because they couldn't get out. Thats not marketing bullshit, its covering your own rear end with basic safety items. You're missing the point. My 15 year old car has no electronic door system. It's all mechanical. It needs no backup system, because the mechanical system works perfectly and is reliable, even in the case of electrical failure or car fire. No lawyers needed. Tell me what is wrong with that system, and what is better about the system in the i8 without using the words "elegant" or "neat-o".
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Jun 29, 2016 22:00
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How can they use just one backup system and call themselves German
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Jun 30, 2016 03:59
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These are the engineers who are trying to bring us autonomous cars as well.
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Jun 30, 2016 04:06
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Gorson posted:You're missing the point. My 15 year old car has no electronic door system. It's all mechanical. It needs no backup system, because the mechanical system works perfectly and is reliable, even in the case of electrical failure or car fire. No lawyers needed. Tell me what is wrong with that system, and what is better about the system in the i8 without using the words "elegant" or "neat-o". gently caress you, its neat-o. This isn't supposed to be a boring driving appliance, its supposed to be a halo car with every loving bell and whistle they can think of. Including fancy rear end doors that are electronicly opened so you don't have to take your keys out of your pocket. You seriously seem like the type of person that complains modern cars are too hard to work on because of all them derned sensors and computers nowadays.
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Jun 30, 2016 04:22
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its retarded youre retarded
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Jun 30, 2016 04:24
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go3 posted:its retarded youre retarded This. It has become overly complicated to the point of unreliability. Very German engineering. Batteries fail, and can do it suddenly. Hope you don't break off the poorly designed mechanical backup!
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Jun 30, 2016 04:47
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Yeah, I'd ask everyone to just watch the first 40 seconds of the i8 video I posted and tell me that isn't the most poorly designed emergency backup door opener ever made.
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Jun 30, 2016 06:55
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Even if you want the electric doors for the coolness factor, why would you make the manual backup so hard to find and operate?
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Jun 30, 2016 06:56
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Elmnt80 posted:gently caress you, its neat-o. This is BMW distilled to four words. Or is it five? Is neat-o one word or two words?
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Jun 30, 2016 07:20
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I'm all about neato poo poo but for safety's sake make your backups robust and easy to use/find, and to hell with touchscreens in vehicles.
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Jun 30, 2016 07:24
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Elmnt80 posted:gently caress you, its neat-o. This isn't supposed to be a boring driving appliance, its supposed to be a halo car with every loving bell and whistle they can think of. Including fancy rear end doors that are electronicly opened so you don't have to take your keys out of your pocket. You seriously seem like the type of person that complains modern cars are too hard to work on because of all them derned sensors and computers nowadays. Hostile. I don't work on modern cars, obviously, because my newest car is 15 years old. I'm in IT, so I work with them derned computers every day. I see how shittily everything is "integrated" together in the IT industry and how much of a joke IT security is, and I know that the dickheads at Ford, BMW, et al are just as loving clueless about how unreliability and complication go hand-in-hand. So please, tell me more about what I know and who I am.
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Jun 30, 2016 12:27
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Instead of having that little weird clip that apparently breaks all the time, they could've put the door release button into double duty by making it a switch for the electric release and a full on button you can depress for manual release. 2 birds, one stone, cleaner design to boot.
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Jun 30, 2016 12:29
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Gorson posted:Hostile. I don't work on modern cars, obviously, because my newest car is 15 years old. I'm in IT, so I work with them derned computers every day. I see how shittily everything is "integrated" together in the IT industry and how much of a joke IT security is, and I know that the dickheads at Ford, BMW, et al are just as loving clueless about how unreliability and complication go hand-in-hand. So please, tell me more about what I know and who I am. Lol I'm in IT and I know everything
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Jun 30, 2016 12:30
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corn in the fridge posted:Lol I'm in IT and I know everything He's not wrong tho. And the car makers are proving his point more and more as time passes too.
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Jun 30, 2016 12:46
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:He's not wrong tho. And the car makers are proving his point more and more as time passes too. Yeah. In regards to keyless systems: You can use a receiver/sender combo to carry the short range keyless open signal over greater distances. Thus car thieves will have one person walk close to you and another close to your car. Ain't technology wonderful?
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Jun 30, 2016 12:56
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corn in the fridge posted:Lol I'm in IT and I know everything Yes that is exactly what I said and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for the clarification, noted forums shitposter Corn in the Fridge.
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Jun 30, 2016 13:08
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88h88 posted:Instead of having that little weird clip that apparently breaks all the time, they could've put the door release button into double duty by making it a switch for the electric release and a full on button you can depress for manual release. 2 birds, one stone, cleaner design to boot. is this something you've seen before, or did you come up with this idea. I ask because my mind is kind of blown right now.
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Jun 30, 2016 13:30
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It's just common sense. You press the button to open the door. What do you do when that doesn't work and you start to panic? You push the button harder. Et voilą.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:18
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Your suggestion makes too much sense, comrade. You'll have to go on a re-education trip.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:43
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Elsa posted:is this something you've seen before, or did you come up with this idea. I ask because my mind is kind of blown right now. This here vvv I thought why have 2 mechanisms to open a door when you could just have one. You already have a button, why not use it for two jobs? I'm not aware of any cars that have such a thing but I'd be very surprised if it hasn't already been done. If it hasn't BMW I'll settle for an M2. Cheers. KozmoNaut posted:It's just common sense. You press the button to open the door.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:50
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