Runaway BMW??

It's when your dashboard suffers a bluescreen, then you worry. :o)

PDH

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Paul Hubbard" saying something like:

Istr MS are running some things on one of the Yank aircraft carriers.

Frankly a seconds risk assessment would convince me that cutting the engine on a straight road is the best bet whether I lost power assistance in all systems or not. It would be infinitely preferable to a continued acceleration to an indeterminate top speed and ultimate high speed death. But that's just me. Others obviously prefer the high speed death route, perhaps wanting to go into orbit.

Huw

The message from "PC Paul" contains these words:

You bugger - I've got coffee all down my (already rather gruby) front now.

Great, several billion dollars worth of kit being run by windows XP. Makes you want to cringe, doesn't it?

As long as they don't get minesweeper mixed up with the real thing. :o(

PDH

You can read the whole sorry tale here.

What is even more unbelieveable is that they didn't even have any backup systems!

-Mark

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Paul Hubbard" saying something like:

"Hey, these target simulations are pretty good. I've just wiped out Iran."

"Umm.. yes. You have, for real."

wait for the police report to show nothing was wrong

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lol

but it says so in the report!!!!!

You appear to be having an accident: Would you like to run the occupant protection wizard in order to help you survive this?

Actually, this did happen to me a few years ago when I ran out of petrol on the motorway. I stuck it in neutral and of course the engine (and hence PAS) died. I honestly do not recall noting *any difference at all* in steering behaviour - at high speed and with very small steering angle requirements, I guess that's not surprising.

The servo brakes will also of course still give you one or two applications based on the stored vacuum, which is really all you need.

The message from "Tim S Kemp" contains these words:

Your car appears to be running an unlicensed copy of Windows. If you have recently made hardware changes including (but not exclusively) Wide Wheels, Blue Washer Lights, Blue underlights or other modifications your car is no longer valid and will be terminated.

We must validate your copy of Windows in order to activate your secondary restraint systems. Please connect to the internet and download the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation tool.

Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Surely the blue LED wizard would require the Windows Car Hazard Awareness Validator?

Then you are forgetting the Windows XP dashboard Plus addon pack which gives you all those things that XP Dashboard Home didn't come with like a steering wheel, speedo and a fancy windowscreen saver.

PDH

Yes but that was eight years ago when they used NT4 OS. Everything is OK now because they have upgraded to XPpro with faster processors. The World is a safer place for it. :-))

Huw

Windows has detected new hardware identified as "Incoming" would you like to search the Microsoft update site for drivers for this hardware or do you have a CD?

Warwick

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Huw" saying something like:

Just wait until some sailor plugs in a memory stick with dodgy drivers for some s**te game or other.