Why allow anybody to have any sort of control of their cars?
Just have them driven by computer and navigated via GPS. Why allow anybody to do anything at all? There are laws, people accept them because they're responsible adults, or they don't and are forced to live with the consequences.
( Kroney, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:38, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Right on, brother.
Firearms should be able to be legally sold to any and everyone, by the same ticket. Making them illegal is just 'The Man' trying to control us.

Shut up, Clarkson.

*belms*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:39, Reply)

There is a rather large difference
between treating people as responsible adults, that are capable of controlling a vehicle that may accidentally inflict injury and allowing people access to equipment that is specifically designed to kill people.

Shut up yourself, Monty "Straw Man" Boyce. You smell.
( Kroney, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:47, Reply)

RIGHT, THAT'S IT.
*tears off shirt outside city centre pub*

*gets cold, regrets shirt removal*

*cries*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:49, Reply)

I'd love a car that I could crawl into, and just say "take me to work."
I could get an extra hours kip.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:40, Reply)

I don't see why you should have to do the crawling yourself
How about a bed which sprouts wheels and smoothly transports you to work?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:43, Reply)

Sprouts would make terrible wheels.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:43, Reply)

It's all about craftsmanship old boy
If we get into sprout-carving as a profession now we'll be ahead of the curve when the bed/car revolution comes.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Good luck on Dragons' Den.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:52, Reply)

I actually have a brilliant idea for making money on Dragons' Den, no idea why it hasn't already been done
You know they all have those big piles of money to demonstrate how ludicrously wealthy they are? I show them this thing called a "gun" and I get them to put that money in a "bag". And then I show them a "clean pair of heels".
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:55, Reply)

heels buttocks
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 10:02, Reply)

What, mine? Really?
Spalshback...
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 10:03, Reply)

Darth, I reckon yours are spotless and gleaming.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 10:07, Reply)

Sprout wheels would wear out too quickly
mindpiss
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:44, Reply)

Technical answer:
A potential answer, what I've just thought of, is due to gearing. You need to have access to power in your top gear for overtaking on motorways etc. In order to have access to this power, your gear ratio needs to be relatively long in order to generate the torque necessary to accelerate. This will mean that there's still a relatively large amount of gear left and so your top speed is significantly higher than your cruising speed.

This is why a car's built with a much higher top speed than the maximum speed limit in your country, not why you don't have a limiter installed.
( Kroney, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:45, Reply)

the voice of reason as ever

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:48, Reply)