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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Thank you. You have to admit, their bench is pretty deep.
“How can he possibly resist the maddening urge to erradicate history at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful, shiny button? The jolly, candy-like button? Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?”
Checking the extreme limit cases first. It's a fail. Better than GM did with the ignition switch.
Eleanor Holmes Moron - let the bitch walk!
ROFL....... [heavy breathing]...... ROFL.......
the mushroom button
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BOOM !!!
Did you hear this woman try to speak at the last Koskinen IRS hearing? She is an incomprehensible neandrithal...
Really stupid people who do not understand how something works, ( i.e. most things typically) instinctively have no faith in or appreciation for what they are looking at.
Sitting in it with no control over it, she clearly stupidly refused to have an open mind and faith enough in the people who created it, that it is safe and works fine and couldn’t get past the stupid.
Shelia Jackson Lee is having her hair turban rewoven. This time, she’ll have baling wire included in the weave for greater durability and bounce.
This car is perfect if she still takes a limo the 3 blocks from her residence to the capitol. Save on chauffeur costs.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams
perhaps foolproof, not feminist-racist-socialist-proof.
asking a gal not to push a red button is like asking a gal not to eat from that one tree.
I did not. I guess there must be a video somewhere.
Or looking back at the town of Sodom.
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