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When You Are A Pedestrian
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 23, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Motor Vehicles, Documentaries, 1940s
Transformers Are Real! ... Well, Sort Of
Posted By: Nethie - Mon Jun 08, 2009 -
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Category: Inventions, Motor Vehicles, Puppets and Automatons, Robots
Trunk Monkey
Perhaps not quite so funny since several deadly chimp attacks. Visit here for the history of this campaign.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 01, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Motor Vehicles, Advertising
New York City Driving—1928
I have no idea of the provenance of this material. Is that Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd driving? Is that really Babe Ruth in the back seat? But I do know it's amazing.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 31, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Motor Vehicles, Movies, 1920s
Self-Correcting Parking Meters
An interesting statistic: "Two-thirds of all District [of Columbia] parking meters reported broken turn out to be operational when a repair crew arrives on-site."One reason is that people falsely report meters as broken when they're not, but another explanation, according to the DC Department of Transportation, is that the meters are designed to be "self-correcting". They're not really broken. The evil little things are just pretending:
a person who parks at a meter displaying a “fail” message may return an hour later to find a working meter flashing zero time and a ticket on the windshield — a process that may repeat several times a day.
Basically, the parking cops are going to get your money, one way or another. Just resign yourself to that truth.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 02, 2009 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles
Catapulted Dummy Tests Driver’s Skill
This would be a useful addition in ALL driver's ed courses, especially if the driver was given no warning. From Popular Science, Aug 1935: So that the driver of a radio car will know what to do if someone darts across a street in front of his speeding machine, instructors of a police school at Hendon, England have devised an ingenious training method. The student is required to drive along a test course, and at some unannounced point a concealed catapult hurls a stuffed dummy in front of the car. Observers rate the driver on his ability to stop or swerve in time to avoid hitting the pedestrian. The catapult is operated by a spring, and a jerk on a rope releases its trigger. All drivers of London's police cars receive this training.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 12, 2009 -
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Category: Cops, Motor Vehicles, Cars, 1930s
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