Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi

[tankinbeans]

I'm driving a car, as a loaner, that would make Fork very cross. I have a 2018 CX-5 with radar adaptive snooze control, BondageSadoMasochism and auto hold (holds the brakes for the driver once the vehicle comes to a full stop, no feet necessary). I turned on the radar snooze just to see what it was like as well as the autohold. I immediately noticed myself becoming less attentive. Turned those features off.

The Bondage is even more intrusive than in Malcolm, yelling at me when a motorist drives passes in the opposing lane such as at a stop light.

[potownrob]

What/Who is Fork?? I'm intrigued bye the knew sea ex-fife (let alone the knew AWD Tree ), despite not being a hybrid (full out EVs be damped ). if it's anything like the newer hondas with the safety sense, you should be abel to turn off certain features of the safety suite; my sister turned off the blind spot beeping or whatever it does - it still lights up a yellow light shaped like a car in the side mirror if you get close to a car with the signals on. the base LX accord we drove as a loaner had a stripped down version of the safety sense where you couldn't change a lot, if anything, but it didn't have the blind spot warning system anyway. it DID have automatic highbeams though (not part of safety sense of course), which i found odd but good.

[tankinbeans]

Fork is the artist formerly known as InlinePaul. I'm sure there's a way to shut the Bondage off, but it's not readily apparent and the menus and buttons are just different enough from Malcolm where I don't want to dig too much.

[ClutchFork]

I'm driving a car, as a loaner, that would make Fork very cross. I have a 2018 CX-5 with radar adaptive snooze control, BondageSadoMasochism and auto hold (holds the brakes for the driver once the vehicle comes to a full stop, no feet necessary). I turned on the radar snooze just to see what it was like as well as the autohold. I immediately noticed myself becoming less attentive. Turned those features off.

The Bondage is even more intrusive than in Malcolm, yelling at me when a motorist drives passes in the opposing lane such as at a stop light.

Sounds like a nightmare!

Fork is the artist formerly known as InlinePaul. I'm sure there's a way to shut the Bondage off, but it's not readily apparent and the menus and buttons are just different enough from Malcolm where I don't want to dig too much.

Only fix for it is to rip all the electronics off of it, toss a carburator on it and wire it up with 1960s wire loom. Yeah, put a road draft tube on it too!

[potownrob]

I'm driving a car, as a loaner, that would make Fork very cross. I have a 2018 CX-5 with radar adaptive snooze control, BondageSadoMasochism and auto hold (holds the brakes for the driver once the vehicle comes to a full stop, no feet necessary). I turned on the radar snooze just to see what it was like as well as the autohold. I immediately noticed myself becoming less attentive. Turned those features off.

The Bondage is even more intrusive than in Malcolm, yelling at me when a motorist drives passes in the opposing lane such as at a stop light.

Sounds like a nightmare!

Fork is the artist formerly known as InlinePaul. I'm sure there's a way to shut the Bondage off, but it's not readily apparent and the menus and buttons are just different enough from Malcolm where I don't want to dig too much.

Only fix for it is to rip all the electronics off of it, toss a carburator on it and wire it up with 1960s wire loom. Yeah, put a road draft tube on it too!

[Rope-Pusher]

I've been refer to by "Rope" long enough that I knew who "Fork" was. You also could have said "One of our members" and by the context I woulds guessed.

Wasn't there an old Aesop's Fable about a collision warning system that cried "Pedestrian" too often as a prank and then later, when there really was a pedestrian walking out from between two cars parked along the curb,.....

[Rope-Pusher]

What are the odds that a gift for my wife scheduled to be delivered "By the 18th" would be delivered this morning, 5 minutes after we came home and 3 minutes after she went out on another task?

[AHTOXA]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

[Rope-Pusher]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

There is this thing you can do to your frontal lobes by sticking a screwdriver tip under your lower lid and poking through the bone at the back of the eye socket that accomplishes about the same results, but screwdrivers are a lot cheaper. Just make sure you clean off the tip of the screwdriver before-hand (and after-hand, eye suppose).

[potownrob]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

WHICH CAR SHE ROCKS??

[potownrob]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

There is this thing you can do to your frontal lobes by sticking a screwdriver tip under your lower lid and poking through the bone at the back of the eye socket that accomplishes about the same results, but screwdrivers are a lot cheaper. Just make sure you clean off the tip of the screwdriver before-hand (and after-hand, eye suppose).

BAD VISUAL BRO!!

[Rope-Pusher]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

There is this thing you can do to your frontal lobes by sticking a screwdriver tip under your lower lid and poking through the bone at the back of the eye socket that accomplishes about the same results, but screwdrivers are a lot cheaper. Just make sure you clean off the tip of the screwdriver before-hand (and after-hand, eye suppose).

BAD VISUAL BRO!!

Well,......OK, if you insist:



In actuality, I bleef they angle the tip upward more.

[AHTOXA]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

WHICH CAR SHE ROCKS??

'16 RAV4 XLE. Not a bad car but definition of blandness if I ever saw one. She drives a lot for work so it's hammer reliability is great for her.

[potownrob]

I tried thebradar cruise control in the GF's car and I wasn't too impressed. Felt a bit out of control. Also would stop paying as much attention and later realize that I'd been stuck behind a dude going 60 when normally I'd have passed him a long time ago.

WHICH CAR SHE ROCKS??

'16 RAV4 XLE. Not a bad car but definition of blandness if I ever saw one. She drives a lot for work so it's hammer reliability is great for her.

seems like a car better suited for up here in the snowy country, though it would be better for off-road driving than a lower car (or FWD if she has AWD). how's that ancient infotainment system? i believe that had the earliest version of the safety package, so not surprised it doesn't work well. would buy for better AWD system (locking diff at low speeds) and reliability. would prefer hybrid other than weirder AWD system. 2016 refresh nice though. lack of depreciation will probably keep me from getting one though.

[theholycow]

Wasn't there an old Aesop's Fable about a collision warning system that cried "Pedestrian" too often as a prank and then later, when there really was a pedestrian walking out from between two cars parked along the curb,.....

Boy Who Cried Wolf is an incredibly important and severely underrated social engineering issue in many contexts.

In social networking, some people forward every ridiculous piece of crap that they see. Security warnings, scams that victimize sick kids by appropriating their embarrassing photo for some unrelated garbage, years-old "missing kid" posts about kids that were found the next day, etc. The gullible ones think they're helping, and the rest tune them out categorically - so the real ones get ignored.

I wish there was a way I could explain it to the short-attention-span gullible ones and have them spend 30 seconds checking before forwarding.

In IT security, one example is the prevalence of phishing scam emails that pretend to be a notification about your account (whether your bank account, email account, amazon, etc); we want users to be vigilant when they receive such things, yet so many companies send legitimate stuff that looks just like common phishing scams...either users are going to spamcan your legitimate email (and get you blocked through RBLs and Bayesian systems) or they're going to fall for phishing scams because they're comfortable clicking a link in email and then entering their password. I'm very careful about how I notify my users.

Almost exactly the same issue exists for common phone scams. When your bank calls you they can't reasonably expect you to just trust them and give them personally identifiable information ("PII") to authenticate yourself without first authenticating themselves, but they have to because they can't reasonably authenticate themselves that way either. I can't think of a decent way to solve this problem either. You can use a pair of changeable, meaningless PINs/passphrases/etc, but that's not realistic for most users.