Driverless Truck Drives in Circles

Built Ford Tough!

I don't think I'd be the one who tried to get in and stop it. It's going
fast enough that if you missed you'd be likely to get run over and then be
nominated for a Darwin award. I'm suprised they didn't empty a few clips in
it though. Good shootings are hard to find in Irvine.

Alan



"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
...
> Be sure and follow the link and watch the video: what you'll see is a
> bunch of cops standing around, watching this pickup truck driving
> around in reverse circles. It appears they just let it go until the it
> ran out of gas. Meanwhile, they have a busy street in a business
> district completely blocked off. WTF didn't one of them just walk up
> to the truck, hop in, and shut the damn ignition off? For that matter,
> why didn't the ****tard owner of the truck do it, without involving
> the cops at all?
>
> http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister...le_1339435.php
>
> Driverless truck circles Irvine streets
> Irvine Police deploy spike strip to halt the circuitous route of
> riderless vehicle today.
> By RYAN HAMMILL
> The Orange County Register
> IRVINE - A driverless pick-up truck circled Irvine streets in reverse
> today shortly after 3 p.m. before Irvine police deployed a spike strip
> to bring the vehicle to a stop.
>
> The 1970 Ford F-150 was locked in a tight backward oval near the
> corner of Von Karman Avenue and Alton Parkway, Irvine police Lt. Rick
> Handfield said.
>
> The driver, a 55-year-old male from Santa Ana, had pulled over to
> inspect a load of cardboard that he believed got loose prior to the
> incident. While out of the vehicle, the truck's reverse gear engaged
> sending it into a perpetual backward flight.
>
> There were no injuries or property damage reported.
>
> "Thanks to the engineering of that truck's front end, it just stayed
> in a circle the whole time," Handfield said.
> --
> I'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it!

"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:

> "wtrplnet" > said in rec.autos.driving:
>
> >Built Ford Tough!
> >
> >I don't think I'd be the one who tried to get in and stop it. It's going
> >fast enough that if you missed you'd be likely to get run over and then be
> >nominated for a Darwin award. I'm suprised they didn't empty a few clips in
> >it though. Good shootings are hard to find in Irvine.
>
> Unanswered questions abound. What was the deal with that other car
> that was being loaded up onto the flatbed tow truck? And what about
> that other car (or was it the same car?) that the Irvine police
> cruiser was pushing right after the truck finally stopped?

Pretty obvious really.

They were concerned the truck was going to hit the parked car.

Graham

In article >, Eeyore wrote:
>
>
> "Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
>
>> "wtrplnet" > said in rec.autos.driving:
>>
>> >Built Ford Tough!
>> >
>> >I don't think I'd be the one who tried to get in and stop it. It's going
>> >fast enough that if you missed you'd be likely to get run over and then be
>> >nominated for a Darwin award. I'm suprised they didn't empty a few clips in
>> >it though. Good shootings are hard to find in Irvine.
>>
>> Unanswered questions abound. What was the deal with that other car
>> that was being loaded up onto the flatbed tow truck? And what about
>> that other car (or was it the same car?) that the Irvine police
>> cruiser was pushing right after the truck finally stopped?
>
> Pretty obvious really.
>
> They were concerned the truck was going to hit the parked car.

1) Cops in the USA generally don't give a flying you know what....

2) even if that was the case, the circle the truck makes comes really
close to the car. Why wasn't it visible in the early part of the video.
Why did the flatbed tow driver give up and leave it there?

Brent P wrote:

> In article >, Eeyore wrote:
> > "Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
> >> "wtrplnet" > said in rec.autos.driving:
>
> >> >Built Ford Tough!
> >> >
> >> >I don't think I'd be the one who tried to get in and stop it. It's going
> >> >fast enough that if you missed you'd be likely to get run over and then be
> >> >nominated for a Darwin award. I'm suprised they didn't empty a few clips in
> >> >it though. Good shootings are hard to find in Irvine.
> >>
> >> Unanswered questions abound. What was the deal with that other car
> >> that was being loaded up onto the flatbed tow truck? And what about
> >> that other car (or was it the same car?) that the Irvine police
> >> cruiser was pushing right after the truck finally stopped?
> >
> > Pretty obvious really.
> >
> > They were concerned the truck was going to hit the parked car.
>
> 1) Cops in the USA generally don't give a flying you know what....

I thought you might say that.


> 2) even if that was the case, the circle the truck makes comes really
> close to the car. Why wasn't it visible in the early part of the video.
> Why did the flatbed tow driver give up and leave it there?

I expected it's a conspiracy by space aliens. Or the government. Or both in
collusion.

Notice how nobody spotted the invisible black helicopter too !

Graham

In article >, Eeyore wrote:
> I expected it's a conspiracy by space aliens. Or the government. Or both in
> collusion.
>
> Notice how nobody spotted the invisible black helicopter too !

welcome to the kill file.

"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
...

> As bizarre as it sounds, it looks as if they towed that car to the
> scene, unloaded it, and pushed it alongside the pickup truck to
> prevent it from getting loose again.

I think you are right. It appears to me that they were planning to use the
car as a barrier to stop the truck. It looks like a junker.
--
Regards,

Ed White
http://home.mindspring.com/~ed_white/

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:

> Cop 1: Holy ****! How do we stop this pickup truck?
> Cop 2: Maybe someone could run up to it, reach in through the open
> window, and turn off the ignition?
> Cop 1: Naw, too dangerous. Let's call up the local auto salvage yard,
> have them bring a junk car over on a flatbed tow truck, and we'll use
> a squad car to push the jalopy into the path of the pickup so it will
> stop.
> Cop 2: A brilliant idea! I'll call the junkyard right now!!

Substitute junkyard with police impound

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> Scott en Aztlán > said in rec.autos.driving:
>
> >The parked car is nowhere in sight at the beginning of the video.
> >After a dissolve, the car magically appears, and is being loaded onto
> >(or, perhaps, UNLOADED from) a flatbed tow truck while the pickup
> >circles in the background.
>
> I just wateched the video again. The tow truck driver is definitely
> UNloading the grey car from the bed of the truck; in the shot, the car
> is fully on the ground, and the driver is raising the bed of the truck
> back to its normal position.
>
> I can only speculate about what the cops were thinking...
>
> Cop 1: Holy ****! How do we stop this pickup truck?
> Cop 2: Maybe someone could run up to it, reach in through the open
> window, and turn off the ignition?
> Cop 1: Naw, too dangerous. Let's call up the local auto salvage yard,
> have them bring a junk car over on a flatbed tow truck, and we'll use
> a squad car to push the jalopy into the path of the pickup so it will
> stop.
> Cop 2: A brilliant idea! I'll call the junkyard right now!!
> --
> I'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it!

Cop 1: Let's find Aunt Judy's car! It won't change in value a bit!

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), MLOM said in
rec.autos.driving:
>
> Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> > Scott en Aztlán > said in rec.autos.driving:
> >
> > >The parked car is nowhere in sight at the beginning of the video.
> > >After a dissolve, the car magically appears, and is being loaded onto
> > >(or, perhaps, UNLOADED from) a flatbed tow truck while the pickup
> > >circles in the background.
> >
> > I just wateched the video again. The tow truck driver is definitely
> > UNloading the grey car from the bed of the truck; in the shot, the car
> > is fully on the ground, and the driver is raising the bed of the truck
> > back to its normal position.
> >
> > I can only speculate about what the cops were thinking...
> >
> > Cop 1: Holy ****! How do we stop this pickup truck?
> > Cop 2: Maybe someone could run up to it, reach in through the open
> > window, and turn off the ignition?
> > Cop 1: Naw, too dangerous. Let's call up the local auto salvage yard,
> > have them bring a junk car over on a flatbed tow truck, and we'll use
> > a squad car to push the jalopy into the path of the pickup so it will
> > stop.
> > Cop 2: A brilliant idea! I'll call the junkyard right now!!
> > --
> > I'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it!
>
> Cop 1: Let's find Aunt Judy's car! It won't change in value a bit!

Cop 2: Yeah! And it will either be an improvement to AJ's car or AJ will
be taken off the road! Brilliant!

--

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"Brent P" > wrote in message
news
> In article >, Eeyore wrote:
>> I expected it's a conspiracy by space aliens. Or the government. Or both
>> in
>> collusion.
>>
>> Notice how nobody spotted the invisible black helicopter too !
>
> welcome to the kill file.

Good work, Eeyore. Please teach me this trick.

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