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Bob Mc
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:49 am Post subject:
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"James C. Reeves" <jcnospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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snip my rubbish
o Locked doors are statistically less likely to "spring
open" during a collision, dumping unrestrained
contents and occupants out.
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seat belts? who cares about contents?
| Quote: | o Most manufacturer's locks "unlock" several seconds
after a collision has been sensed. It's usually
explained in the owner manual.
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Yeah, but why bother?
At 80 on the motorway or 50 on an A-road _nobody's_ going to open the door
from the outside!
They can't catch me - I drive zigzag!
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Bob Mc
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:49 am Post subject:
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"David Thornber" <nospam@thornber.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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After living in Manchester, London, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Paris, Zurich
and various smaller towns and never having been mugged
and after having various accidents (my or not my fault),
I will leave my doors unlocked for safety.
You've lived in Manchester? I take it you've driven down Regent Road in
Salford then. It's not been so bad the last few years, but at one point
you'd regularly see the kids there waiting for an opportunity to steal
from standing traffic. There'd be the look-out, standing balanced on a
mountain bike, looking into the cars for stuff worth nicking, and the
runner's who'd actually do the grab and leg it. A colleague had his bag
nicked off the back seat of his car on Regent Road in exactly these
circumstances.
The same kids would actually 'case' your car while you were filling up
with petrol at the Mobil garage on the same road: Blatantly walking
past and having a good look inside while you're standing there with the
pump nozzle in your hand. Presumably, if there was anything worth
having, there'd be a brick through your window while you went to pay.
They've knocked that garage down now.
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OK. I haven't driven through M'cr since 1978, but, as I said -
if I see a potentially dangerous situation, there's nothing to stop me
locking up - BTDT didn't see a T-Shirt.
I also don't think a locked door stops a brick through the window, does it?
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Bob Mc
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David Thornber
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject:
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In message <38ijjnF5mg4msU1@individual.net>, Bob Mc
<bob.mcminn@g_DEL_mail.com> writes
| Quote: | "Guy King" <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303432373942237BBB66@zetnet.co.uk...
The message <422375de$0$25038$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr
from "fob" <rton@wanadoo.fr> contains these words:
en cas d'accident, les portes se déverrouillent automatiquement,
Provided you can trust the ECU to work properly.
Perzackerly!
I am a software developer and it is said in out trade
that there is _no_ software in the world without errors!
10 PRINT "Hello World" |
20 GOTO 10
I've never known a bug in that one.
ECU software is going to be a lot closer to the complexity of 'Hello
World' than it is to Microsoft Office. Things like unlocking the doors
in the event of an accident are a simple case of "If this happens, then
do this" - forget a full blown ECU, you could do it with the most basic
of PIC's, or probably even with a couple of transistors and relays.
It's only really part of the ECU's job because it makes sense from a
production cost point of view to have one unit handling all the tricks
and gizmos. Even if it's busy, I'm sure the ECU can find time to check
an impact sensor several times a second and unlock the doors if
required. There's even bound to be a watchdog timer to reboot the ECU
if it freezes.
I can still see where you're coming from, and maybe a better logical
solution would be something that locks the doors when the car drops
below a certain speed and unlocks them again when a certain speed is
reached. I can see this being the best of both worlds, but the constant
clunking of the central locking would get irritating after a while.
BTW: The brick through the window was presumably the trick at the
petrol station while the car was unattended. The 'stuck in traffic'
trick was to identify something worth nicking on the passenger or back
seat, run up, open the door, grab the item and leg it.
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David Thornber
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Guy King
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:
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The message <38ijjnF5mg4msU1@individual.net>
from "Bob Mc" <bob.mcminn@g_DEL_mail.com> contains these words:
| Quote: | I am a software developer and it is said in out trade
that there is _no_ software in the world without errors!
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10 Print "Hello world"
20 GOTO 10
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Guy King
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:
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The message <U0wR5gBX+BJCFwqT@thornber.demon.co.uk>
from David Thornber <nospam@thornber.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
| Quote: | 10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
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Hah! Bloody rays!
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Ben Blaney
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Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject:
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Guy King wrote:
| Quote: | The message <38ijjnF5mg4msU1@individual.net
from "Bob Mc" <bob.mcminn@g_DEL_mail.com> contains these words:
I am a software developer and it is said in out trade
that there is _no_ software in the world without errors!
10 Print "Hello world"
20 GOTO 10
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Surely that's not software; it's code.
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Stuart
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Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:30 am Post subject:
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:23:34 +0100, "Bob Mc"
<bob.mcminn@g_DEL_mail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | "Guy King" <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303432373942237BBB66@zetnet.co.uk...
The message <422375de$0$25038$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr
from "fob" <rton@wanadoo.fr> contains these words:
en cas d'accident, les portes se déverrouillent automatiquement,
Provided you can trust the ECU to work properly.
Perzackerly!
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Perzackerly ....Is that not outside Liverpool.???...lol
Stuart |
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Stuart
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Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:33 am Post subject:
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:29:16 -0000, "Craig Parsons"
<news.posts@cparsons.plus.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
Thanks for your prompt postings, I'll give it a try when I go out
tomorrow.
Pete, if your Mondeo has the GEM module (does the locking/keys), then
the key sequence to turn it in should be the same. Details are at
http://www.torquesteer.co.uk/store/detail.php?itemID=f54fadb01bab43601e200b.
Otherwise go on eBay and buy a copy of the ford TIS CD. Its the CD the
dealers use and has all the manuals... thats how I found it.
Craig.
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Can't you just lock the doors by pushing the drivers door interior
handle in .I do this in my Mondeo so that it locks the boot
....otherwise the boot remains unlocked while driving along ...
Stuart |
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Bob Mc
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Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:
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"David Thornber" <nospam@thornber.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:U0wR5gBX+BJCFwqT@thornber.demon.co.uk...
| Quote: | 10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
I've never known a bug in that one.
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Yes there is!!!!!!!
It's an endless loop and that means you can't use the processor
for anything else until the batterie runs out!
¦¬}
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Bob Mc
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Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:
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"Stuart" <stuartSPAMTRAP@xpozure4u.plus.com> wrote in message
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Perzackerly ....Is that not outside Liverpool.???...lol
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Prolly is.
VBG
PS: Why is your font bigger than anyone elses?
I thought my reader defined the font in text-only mail!
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Stuart
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Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject:
Re: 2005 Megane. Auto Locking Doors? |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:30:39 +0000, Stuart
<stuartSPAMTRAP@xpozure4u.plus.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:23:34 +0100, "Bob Mc"
bob.mcminn@g_DEL_mail.com> wrote:
"Guy King" <guy.king@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:313030303432373942237BBB66@zetnet.co.uk...
The message <422375de$0$25038$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr
from "fob" <rton@wanadoo.fr> contains these words:
en cas d'accident, les portes se déverrouillent automatiquement,
Provided you can trust the ECU to work properly.
Perzackerly!
Perzackerly ....Is that not outside Liverpool.???...lol
Stuart
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Nah,it's actually Fazackerley ..lol
The font looks same as yours .It is 8
Stuart |
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Pete Smith
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Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:21 am Post subject:
Re: 2005 Megane. Auto Locking Doors? |
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In article <na2a21tk4tknlgche1ibed6me63cvqasau@4ax.com>,
stuartSPAMTRAP@xpozure4u.plus.com says...
| Quote: | On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:29:16 -0000, "Craig Parsons"
news.posts@cparsons.plus.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Thanks for your prompt postings, I'll give it a try when I go out
tomorrow.
Pete, if your Mondeo has the GEM module (does the locking/keys), then
the key sequence to turn it in should be the same. Details are at
http://www.torquesteer.co.uk/store/detail.php?itemID=f54fadb01bab43601e200b.
Otherwise go on eBay and buy a copy of the ford TIS CD. Its the CD the
dealers use and has all the manuals... thats how I found it.
Craig.
Can't you just lock the doors by pushing the drivers door interior
handle in .I do this in my Mondeo so that it locks the boot
...otherwise the boot remains unlocked while driving along ...
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That's not quite the same.
It's like having auto lights, wipers, dim-dip mirror, volume control etc.
Yes, you can do them all yourself, but it's more fun if the car does it for
you!
Pete.
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