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Mar 25, 2005 | 03:27 PM

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speedracerF4i

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Originally Posted by beewang' date='Mar 25 2005, 01:18 PM

[quote name='Rudy' date='Mar 25 2005, 12:07 PM']All you need is one hand on the wheel to shift the thing -- automatic mode makes me carsick!

Sorry Rudy, but one hand is holding onto the magazine and the other one is for holding onto the 7-Eleven Super Big-Gulp soda. No time to f**k around w/ the shifter dude

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Multi-tasking is quite common in L.A. What Beewang is doing may not sound as dangerous because at least, the steering wheel is being care for by his third limb. Playboy and Penthouse magazines are oftenly read while driving

Mar 25, 2005 | 04:22 PM

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EBMCS03

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Originally Posted by speedracerF4i' date='Mar 25 2005, 04:27 PM

Multi-tasking is quite common in L.A. What Beewang is doing may not sound as dangerous because at least, the steering wheel is being care for by his third limb.? Playboy and Penthouse magazines are oftenly read while driving

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I prefer to steer with my knees thank you! Cell phone on one hand and news paper in the other... NO SLURPY!!! no drinks in car. Oh ya... one eye on the iDrive playing a movie that I enjoy a lot.

Mar 25, 2005 | 07:54 PM

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Rudy

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Another benefit of active steering -- you get way more turning ability with your left knee...

Mar 25, 2005 | 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Mar 25 2005, 01:07 PM

[quote name='beewang' date='Mar 25 2005, 11:59 AM']I disagree.. <_<? When I am stuck in traffic, and starts to read the magazine while driving, I really appreciate the car shifts by itself. I need that extra hand to hold my pages up

I know unfortunately, you Germans don't get to do that

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All you need is one hand on the wheel to shift the thing -- automatic mode makes me carsick!

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You've go to try it for a while with the Sport button activated

. It's really not bad at all.
Especially as I'm eating my bagel on my way to work while trying to keep my coffee from popping out of my new cupholder, as I'm checking new posts on this forum on my Treo650 just before I get a voicemail coming through my Bluetooth connection just after I use voice control to change the CD because I'm taking a corner just a little off line that active steering is correcting with a little opposite lock....

Mar 25, 2005 | 09:57 PM

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SMG is really good. The auto mode really isn't so bad. My wife and I had to share a car for a few days and she uses the auto mode. It worked really well.
I guess cars are becoming more like computers everyday. Each one is never the same. That is why I haven't gotten a software update yet. No need.

Mar 26, 2005 | 01:43 AM

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Updating was when all of my problems started, Kris.

Mar 26, 2005 | 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by realtyman' date='Mar 25 2005, 11:28 PM

You've go to try it for a while with the Sport button activated

.? It's really not bad at all.
Especially as I'm eating my bagel on my way to work while trying to keep my coffee from popping out of my new cupholder, as I'm checking new posts on this forum on my Treo650 just before I get a voicemail coming through my Bluetooth connection just after I use voice control to change the CD because I'm taking a corner just a little off line that active steering is correcting with a little opposite lock....

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. . . and backing into rocks?

Mar 26, 2005 | 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by JDN' date='Mar 26 2005, 05:46 AM

[quote name='realtyman' date='Mar 25 2005, 11:28 PM']You've go to try it for a while with the Sport button activated

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. . . and backing into rocks?

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The guy who's rock I moved was going to bill me $50 to move it back.

Mar 26, 2005 | 08:49 PM

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JDN

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Tell him to rock on!

Mar 26, 2005 | 09:08 PM

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The guy who's rock I moved was going to bill me $50 to move it back.?

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Can we see a pic?

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