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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They should have put a bunch of decoy buttons in there.
She sounds like a child or a monkey that just can’t keep her hands off of things.
Remember the old admonition that calling anything "fool-proof" merely serves to get the creative juices flowing among the fools. To wit, the present example.
On a related note, driverless cars are a fools program.
She has pretty much lived her life in a do-nothing, go-nowhere position. She could have been replaced by a knapsack filled with straw delivered to her chair each morning.
If there were the inventor would be a billionaire.
Works great! Now let's install one in every Demonicrat head in Congress (there's plenty of empty space).
Don’t let that whacko into a data center.
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