Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Dmxrob wrote to All <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
On 03-06-21 12:37, Blue White wrote to Dmxrob <=-
Dmxrob wrote to All <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
There isn't currently one. You are always free to talk about it here.
On 03-07-21 10:17, Avon wrote to Dmxrob <=-
On 06 Mar 2021 at 12:23a, Dmxrob pondered and said...
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Not really, not to say it won't be, just that the amount of automotive chatter has never been that great (to date) to in my mind warrant a specific echo. If a number of folks all start taking makes, models, engines and more then yeah I think we would want that :)
Dmxrob wrote to All <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
Vk3jed wrote to Avon <=-
Autos are all well and good, but seems a lot of people don't know how
to drive theirs on country roads. Got stuck behind several shockers
today - slowing down for bends (that can be easily taken at 100 km/h), unable to maintain constant speed, hitting the brakes for no obvious reason, etc. :/
an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
Vk3jed wrote to Blue White <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
On 03-08-21 08:47, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hello Vk3jed!
** On Monday 08.03.21 - 19:45, Vk3jed wrote to Blue White:
Dmxrob wrote to All <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
On 03-08-21 06:49, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I took my son out this weekend for his first trip behind the wheel. He
got his learner's permit last week, and we took him to a local junior college with 15 mph roads and lots of wide-open parking lots.
What made perfect sense to him - if you turn left, press the left-hand side stalk down to activate the turn signal. To turn right, he pressed down on the right-hand stalk and instead turned on the wipers, much to
his embarrassment.
Slowing down *before* you enter the turn is going to be our next
lesson.
It's interesting seeing driving from a newbie's perspective - we take
for granted the fact that when driving you're looking around, braking, preparing to turn, watching the car ahead of you, etc. He was sort of doing one thing at once then switching to the next task.
On 03-08-21 15:42, Blue White wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Vk3jed wrote to Blue White <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
Or a plug wire loose. ;)
On 03-09-21 05:42, Spectre wrote to Ogg <=-
an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
I believe it didn't gain any traction :)
On 03-09-21 05:42, Spectre wrote to Ogg <=-
an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
I believe it didn't gain any traction :)
Bald tyres? ;P
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
Or it ran out of gas. ;)
I took my son out this weekend for his first trip behind the wheel. He
Water in the distributor. ;)
Autos are all well and good, but seems a lot of people don't know how to drive theirs on country roads. Got stuck behind several shockers today
- slowing down for bends (that can be easily taken at 100 km/h), unable
to maintain constant speed, hitting the brakes for no obvious reason,
etc. :/
It seemed to be a wheely good idea at the time.
I took my son out for the first time on Saturday. He is still learning
how to
accelerate and brake smoothly. I like to exaggerate the beating my
neck is
taking each time the car lurches forward or back. He is so very not
amused.
Ha, daughter just turned 15... she got behind the wheel for the first
time and was like, "oh, it's just like Mario Kart..."
On 03-09-21 13:39, Oli wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Vk3jed wrote (2021-03-09):
On 03-09-21 05:42, Spectre wrote to Ogg <=-
an automotive echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
I believe it didn't gain any traction :)
Bald tyres? ;P
Cars are so last century. Fat, angry and unhealthy...
On 03-09-21 09:00, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hello Vk3jed!
** On Tuesday 09.03.21 - 20:48, Vk3jed wrote to Ogg:
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
Or it ran out of gas. ;)
It seemed to be a wheely good idea at the time.
On 03-10-21 07:56, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Water in the distributor. ;)
Give her some CRC 5.56, she'll be right... or if you're with the plebs make it some WD40 :)
On 03-10-21 12:47, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 08 Mar 2021 at 07:48p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
Autos are all well and good, but seems a lot of people don't know how to drive theirs on country roads. Got stuck behind several shockers today
- slowing down for bends (that can be easily taken at 100 km/h), unable
to maintain constant speed, hitting the brakes for no obvious reason,
etc. :/
Ooo... auto chatter or to be more precise transportation banter.. :)
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
Or it ran out of gas. ;)
It seemed to be a wheely good idea at the time.
But then it got bogged down. :P
On 03-10-21 07:21, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hello Vk3jed!
** On Wednesday 10.03.21 - 21:05, Vk3jed wrote to Ogg:
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive
echo started?
Guess it had a flat battery. ;)
:D I was going to say, "I guess the idea went flat".
Or it ran out of gas. ;)
It seemed to be a wheely good idea at the time.
But then it got bogged down. :P
We better stop this, shift gears to something else, or it might
drive some people insane. I'll let you put the brakes on it
first, we can let it cruise along. :) (Btw, the "traction" one
in another thread was pretty good too.)
On 03-10-21 18:38, Morgul wrote to Vk3jed <=-
The deputy comes up, looks in the window at both of us, and with a
smirk asks "learning to drive?". My daughter was petrified, but she answered him. He asked to see her permit, my license, and the vehicle registration. He looked at them, chuckled, and told us that he was
just checking on this car driving aimlessly around the parking lot, but that we were good to go. He and I got a good laugh at my daughter's reaction, but she did well handling it. I was proud of her.
On 03-06-21 12:37, Blue White wrote to Dmxrob <=-
Dmxrob wrote to All <=-
Has there ever been any thought to getting an automotive echo started
Indeed, I see no reason not to talk about automotive topics here. :)
deurbroucq wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I took my son out for the first time on Saturday. He is still learning
how to accelerate and brake smoothly. I like to exaggerate the beating
my neck is taking each time the car lurches forward or back. He is so
very not amused.
My son is going to take the test in a Prius with a backup camera, should make the parallel parking test easier than parking a land barge!
On 03-11-21 09:43, bcw142 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yup, that's how topics get started on FSXNet ;) Talk about them tell
they tell us we have our own area to talk about it. The other thing is
to move over (or back) to USENET where I first talked to most of you including Avon via UUCP and Waffle on an old PC. There is Automotive
areas there and has been since the late 1980's or so. That's the beauty
of FSX_GEN that we start threads about anything, like the old days of
FIDO before the politicos took it over from it's creator ;(
I used to login with a C64, TI99/4A, Amiga, Beehive Terminal and so on
in those days. Now I can get on from work while testing a PC Clone ;)
That and you can figure out what's wrong with the cars that way too.
There ran a circle around the whole topic ;)
On 03-10-21 06:59, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to deurbroucq <=-
Cars nowadays are easier to learn in -- I did all of my driver's ed in
a 1971 Buick Electra 225 that was as wide as a lane, and a 1965 Mustang with a hair-trigger throttle and bias-ply tires that'd light up any
time you goosed the throttle.
My son is going to take the test in a Prius with a backup camera,
should make the parallel parking test easier than parking a land barge!
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