Cheap Bugatti Veyron anyone ?

[Big_Richard]

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f96d6f411d57158f


tisk tisk... 

[OzBenzHead]

Hurrumph! Pelican or no pelican, he "dropped his cell phone".

Serves him right for using it while driving. No sympathy for the fool.

[WGB]

You can guarantee that anyone in the market for a Bugatti Veyron will know that that one in only a production of 200 will have been submerged in salt water.

I like the comment that it sounded like an outboard motor as the motor kept running for 15 minutes until it died.

I guess he was too busy looking for his submerged mobile phone to turn off the ignition.

Two million dollars and no bluetooth handsfree.

Now if only he'd had an M class a) He could have left his mobile in his pocket and b) raised the air suspension, engaged low range and used the three diff locks to pull him out - but then if he didn't have bluetooth in a Veyron he probably wouldn't tick the option boxes in an ML either.

Bill

[TJ 450]

They definitely have/had more money than sense!

Tim

[OzBenzHead]

Even Bluetooth might not have saved his bacon.

Numerous recent studies (can't cite the specifics right now as I'm away from my own computer) have concluded that it's not so much the physical issue of using a driving hand to manipulate a phone, or even the momentary diversion of visual attention from the road, but the mental distraction of having a phone conversation that is the main element at play.

I had the first car phone in my neck of the woods back in '89 -- a govt work car that I virtually lived in and worked from; the phone was a replacement for two-way radio. That besser-brick-on-a-lead was, for its time, top of the range and had remote mic and amplified speakers so that once a call was in progress it could be conducted hands free (albeit with the handset floating loosely around on the passenger seat).

Numerous were the times I became so engrossed in a phone conversation that I lost the driving plot and almost lost the car (a 4WD).

So while Bluetooth / handsfree phones might be an improvement, their use remains a driving hazard. I use mine merely to answer a call before it switches to voicemail: "Hello -- please hold while I pull over". There is talk in the NSW parliament (yes, I know, the most inept and corrupt in the country) of prohibiting even hands-free phone use while driving and, whilst there are many instances of the nanny state going OTT, I would support that particular move. Nothing is so urgent that it can't wait for the few seconds it takes to pull over and stop -- even in today's world of instant gratification.

These studies have parallels with some on loud music in cars. Music that is too loud has been shown to be a major contributing factor in driver distraction; I have experienced that myself when occasionally I had my (more than adequate 11-speaker multi-amped) stereo pumping -- which is why, when it blew a foofle valve (do they have foofle ICs?) I left it dead.

Perhaps it's because I mostly drive alone, but I find it difficult to maintain full driving concentration just by having a conversation with a passenger.

[SELfor50]

Hahahaha...  Galveston Texas ay?

Only in America.

And spot on, any person ever in the market for a Veyron will know about that one.

BUT, you reckon he was just bored and wanted some coin back to buy his new real-estate in Texas??


I dunno.. fukn idiot.