I was at a friend’s bar one night hanging out. There was a cowpunk band playing (Think Folsom Prison Blues with lots of F bombs). The guy who usually ran the sound board had to leave for a family emergency. The owner of the bar asked me to run the board.
I acted like I knew exactly what I was doing, but I pretty much just tweaked everything to be LOUD. The band loved me, and tipped me a portion of their cover charge.
I saw KISS in 1976.
I bought this KISS box set in 1976.
As did I. Christmas of 1975, I got KISS Alive and I was jealous that all my friends had their older brothers’ earlier records to listen to. I was ten years old.
In 1978, I saw Mom & Dad rolling on the couch, they had my KISS records out.
Were they all right?
They just seem a little weird.
Wait, am I the only one wondering how you drive out of Australia?
There’s a big ramp after you get past the booths.
The guy at the Rainbow Bridge was almost going fast enough to manage it.
Mommy’s all right. Daddy’s all right. They just seem a little weird.
Little update from last month: US investigators have been obtaining records from Bentley, and Bentley has been cooperating, but Bentley has insisted on a court order for any records that contain personal info about the owners of the car. US investigators were seeking a subpoena.
Apparently they have recovered a badly damaged “black box”.
This jumped out at me:
Stuck accelerators. Only in Europe. Okay…
Plus this:
On its website, Bentley describes its Flying Spur as a “luxury sedan” with “effortless power.” The eight-cylinder engine has a maximum speed of nearly 320 km/h and can accelerate from zero to 96 km/h in four seconds.
Just noodling, but if there is a stuck accelerator problem, combined with that rate of acceleration…
(Plus, I’ll bet the marketing division is probably wondering whether “Flying Spur” was such a good idea…)
Disclaimer: The Flying Spur does not fly nor does it enable driver or passengers to fly. Bentley is not responsible for any property damage, deaths or injuries that occur if driver attempts to take off.
Also, do not use the Flying Spur to get your horse to move. This is an inappropriate application of the vehicle and Bentley assumes no responsibility for damage to either the horse or the vehicle.
The insurance industry did a major investigation of claims of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA). What they found was that there were no common parts among the cars that had been implicated in cases of SUA, but, they all had accelerator pedals that were shaped similarly to the brake pedals, and would have felt the same to the foot.
Which is too say, yeah, it was user error, but it was also a design error.
A stuck accelerator (like from a mat) is a different problem, and can typically be slowed by hitting the brakes, giving the driver time to put the car in neutral. But yeah, that could have contributed, especially if the driver was drunk.
When i lived in Princeton there were some roads that crossed route 1 with only lights (not physical barriers or curves) preventing incoming traffic from smashing into the stream of fast-moving cars. There was a fatal accident about once a year when a car drove through the lights. In every case, the investigation found the driver was already unconscious before reaching the lights, having suffered a stroke or heart attack first.
I’m guessing that’s what caused this crash, too.
A year on, and the cause of the crash is still unknown. Bodies were destroyed, so no autopsy results, and the car’s black box was too badly damaged; no recoverable data.