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Did we actually save your life? Wow! Chris, I think we need a new member badge for "life saver". 
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... I'm glad to say - as the dozy sod in the car behind me found out today, and it still managed to stop in time on a wet road with no help from him at all!
So I still have a car - albeit without Autonomous Emergency Braking - and his is unwrecked as well ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I had a similar incident some years ago on the M3. Traffic suddenly started breaking and I could see the look of fear on the poor kid's face in my rear-view mirror, as he stood on the brakes. Once we had stopped he and his GF got out full of apologies; and as she put it, "sorry, but the brakes are f***ed".
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I had one on the M1, one Friday night in a gawd-awful company pool car: Ford Cortina Estate that had been abused so much that it lurched right when you accelerated, and lurched left when you braked.
Anyway, traffic ahead had stopped for an accident, so I slammed on the anchors, desperately steered it in a straight(ish) line, and stopped. Reached for the handbrake, glanced in the mirror in time to see the car behind plow into my ass at seventy. Rammed me into the car in front (and wrote that off as well), shorted the Craptina by a good couple of feet, and split the fuel tank ... Fortunately, no major injuries.
Took me over a year to get comfortable stopping at traffic lights in case the guy behind didn't though.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My last car got pushed half way across an intersection. I was waiting at a red light when a truck gave me that little push. The idiot did not brake at all because he was too busy with his brain pacemaker.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Happened to me as well a few years ago, at a much lower speed I'm happy to say.
The car in front of me concluded that there was no visible damage and took off, I got superficial damage on my rear bumber as the towbar took the brunt of the crash.
The car behind me had to be towed, my towbar went straight through the cooler and had cracked his engine block.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The car behind me had to be towed, my towbar went straight through the cooler and had cracked his engine block.
Carma
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Before going freelance, my employer sent me on a defensive driving course. I learnt about always having an eye open for an "escape route" and awareness of traffic ahead and behind. The following week I was on the M25 middle lane, approaching a spot where traffic cops had pulled someone over. Of course everyone slowed to rubberneck, and about 3 cars ahead of me an end-on collision occurred. I knew I could stop short, but I also knew I had a petrol tanker about 50' off my bumper. I was able to release the brakes enough to safely steer into a narrow gap between the guy ahead in the fast lane and the barrier - that I was already aware of. Everyone came to a stop, including the tanker - about 20 yards beyond where I would have come to a stop. Never been so grateful for having been sent on a course by my employer! 
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Amen. That's something that keeps me alert especially at the end of a long trip. Thinking, "What am I going to do if the idiot over there does 'X'."
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I don't doubt that these systems work in 'normal' situations, but always wonder what happens when two critical situations happen at the same time. Like when I'm driving a race, riding in the wind shadow of the guy in front of me in a curve and getting ready to overtake him when the curve ends. When that dumb thing hits the brakes then, I may not even get a chance to strangle the idiot who developed and tested that thing. As always, when I fly off the road, i want it to be my fault at least.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's one of those rare exceptions in which the Simulation is rewound after tweaking your brain to distract you from repeating your original action. 
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They're not meant for anything but normal situations. There are several reasons you wont find those emergency brakes on rally cars.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: They're not meant for anything but normal situations. There are several reasons you wont find those emergency brakes on rally cars.
1) Weight reduction
2) Nothing in or around the wheels is still stock
3) ...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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3) Those cars are usually driven to the max and the brakes aren't applied until the last fraction second before a hairpin curve, so any brand equipping their cars with emergency brakes will find that they are either slower or that it's never used.
4) If the car is doing 130 going sideways through a long curve and a computer decides to slam the brakes, because the sensors sense a tree ten meters in front of it, you will immediately be driving an all terrain vehicle instead of a rally car.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I appear to be safer in a moving car than a stationary one.
I have had three accidents in car parks, one whilst waiting at a red light, one when stationary in a traffic queue, one whilst stationary waiting to turn right and one (most recent) when the guy in a flatbed truck in front stopped abruptly in the middle of the road and decided to reverse into me. Had time to beep (no effect) but not to get into reverse myself.
Scariest part of that was not my crumpled bumper but the mother with pushchair that had just crossed the road a second or two before, since he wouldn't have seen them either.
I was going to pop into the office this morning for an hour or two, I think I may walk.
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Quote: What I have tried:
nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing,nothing
[^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Well at least they did it more than once.
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The really depressing bit is he copy'n'pasted "nothing," to save himself the effort. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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actually if it at least did that there's some hope for him as a front-end web designer.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The lack of a space betwixt the command and the 'n' is a good sign of that as well! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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In the begining I would like to thank you for all your responses to my late topic on job  I read them all. Now I have another question. I know I'm whining too much...  You probably think I'm acting like a prima donna. So, I heard some advices from the other programmers that If find a programming language hard, i shouldn't give up on programming and maybe try another. So I did it. About one month or two ago I started to learn c++. And immediately everything started to click. I even began to understand some java concepts that I couldn't get before. A week ago I read like about 600 pages of Deitel book on C++ like it was an interesting novel. Now I'm almost on the same productivity level as my java just in one week. I don't use pointers yet and don't allocate memory either, sometimes I have to check out the syntax but I can make simple console games(I struggle, i didn't finish any yet, but I can  ).
I bought Bjarne Stroustup's book and I love it... I just want to learn more and program, but today I thought... damn.. I have to stop. I have assignments on java for school and I'm late. They will kick my out of college so I thought, I focus only on java. I thought: "It's a good language, it has great support for GUI, I can get job". So I woke up in the morning and thought: "I will read those java books with the same passion!" and I opened my java book... and that's it.... I can't go any further. I don't know if the problem is books themselves, are books on java really that horribly written or is it a language itself? I simply can get why and when I should use interfaces, why should I bother studying those (100 * infinity) libraries when I can write programs using just few. What is the purpose of abstract class, inner class, biolerplate code here, boilerplate code there... Plenty of lines just to print "Hello World!". I can't stand it anymore  Smart people, what should I do?
modified 3-Jun-21 21:01pm.
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Be careful how you learn C++. It's not OOP, more like it's capable of OOP style things but a lot of people teach it as though it's "C with objects" which it's not.
I highly recommend Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo. It's cheap, mercifully short, and is the *only* book I recommend for teaching C++ to anyone (even people that already "know" it)
Java never clicked with me either, but I did find C# enjoyable. Maybe try C# and see if Java clicks better afterward, since conceptually they are very similar. C# is easy to learn. It shouldn't take you long.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Actuallly the Deitel book is great and Bjarne's book... well he is the creator of the language so he knows what he is talking about. C++ is totaly different language than C. C doesn't even have classes and I didn't read any book on C++ yet which would learn C. I even think that books on C++ teach OOP better, better encapsulation with the C++ interface, I even learned to use getters and setters proparly. I thought about C# because I like Windows Environment but isn't it just modified java? If I struggle with advanced concept in java would it help to understand it in C# if they are so smiliar? Anyway thank's for your advices
modified 3-Jun-21 21:01pm.
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C# isn't modified Java.
C# is what java would be if someone took Java and designed all of the mistakes out of it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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