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- From: holerbch@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Uwe Hollerbach)
- Subject: Re: Okay, it's not the inverse sprinkler problem...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.211935.17046@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:19:35 GMT
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- In article <12950103@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
- >
- >If your stopped and not currently pressing on the brake or clutch with
- >the motor running then you'd have to be in neutral. So pushing the
- >clutch is meaningless.
- >
- >The answer I once say in a traffic school movie was to put it in reverse
- >and gas it. I'd honk the horn too.
- >
- >R. Peregrino, ric@spd.hp.com
-
-
- Actually, I found that the best thing to do was to step (lightly) on
- the gas. I was standing at an intersection, and I heard a wild
- screeching of tires behind me, plus headlights waving madly in my
- rearview mirror. The person behind me couldn't brake in time and had
- lost control of his/her car. So I pulled forward about nine feet, and
- the other car eventually stopped six feet forward of where my rear
- bumper had been, and facing backward. Then I re-swallowed my heart &
- other organs. I recommend this alternative over either of the others
- (if it works :-) ).
- --
- Uwe Hollerbach uh@acm.princeton.edu or uh@alumni.caltech.edu
- "In His infinite mercy, Allah does not subtract from one's alloted span those
- hours which are spent in contemplation of net.news. All praise be to Allah."
- -- an obscure commentator on the early work of Al-Khowariszmi
-