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Comment Honestly, officer, it wasn't me! (Score 3, Interesting) 749

I got a speeding ticket last year while driving my mother-in-law's new Toyota Sienna for the first time. I was following a vehicle through a work-zone with the cruise control set at 50-mph (so I thought). The vehicle in front of me changed lanes and the van accelerated rapidly to 65-mph...right past a cop. I tried to explain to him that the van did it, but he didn't care.

I know now that the digital cruise control, in combination with the collision-avoidance "radar" in the Toyotas will regulate the vehicle speed, but what happens when the vehicle in front of you moves or accelerates is sometimes erratic behavior. Could this be related to what's happening? Is it user error?

Comment Re:what i would say (Score 1) 494

You wake up in the middle of the night, finding a stranger in your home. You're half asleep and your family is distributed throughout the house. It is dark and you have no idea what the intentions of this person are. You MUST believe this his intentions are to harm you and/or your family and you must act accordingly. If you call out to him or turn on a light or flashlight, he could shoot you and then do God knows what to your family. I do not advocate shooting first -- it could be your spouse or God forbid one of your own children, but you have NO control over this situation. You claim that gun proponents don't value human life (think of the poor defenseless criminals), but can you honestly believe that an intruder values yours or your family's lives?

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