.8 Gs, why not?

Coming home about 2 miles I didn't fasten my seat belt just to be a
maverick. There are 2, 90 degree turns that drew a .8 on the G meter
in the first one and a very loud seat belt chime and the active
handling came on.

Question to anyone that has driven without seat belts long enough to
get a warning of any kind. Was it triggered by distance, time, G
force, or just because there was a maverick at the wheel?

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:53:05 -0700, Dad > wrote:

> Coming home about 2 miles I didn't fasten my seat belt just to be a
> maverick. There are 2, 90 degree turns that drew a .8 on the G meter
> in the first one and a very loud seat belt chime and the active
> handling came on.
>
> Question to anyone that has driven without seat belts long enough to
> get a warning of any kind. Was it triggered by distance, time, G
> force, or just because there was a maverick at the wheel?
>


Maybe it's the same problem that afflicts traction control & ABS at about
0.8g.


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.. Dad wrote:

>Question to anyone that has driven >without seat belts long enough to
>get a warning of any kind.

No. I got pulled over by the cops and he just handed me the ticket.

LOL

"Rufio" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:53:05 -0700, Dad > wrote:
>
>> Coming home about 2 miles I didn't fasten my seat belt just to be a
>> maverick. There are 2, 90 degree turns that drew a .8 on the G
>> meter
>> in the first one and a very loud seat belt chime and the active
>> handling came on.
>>
>> Question to anyone that has driven without seat belts long enough
>> to
>> get a warning of any kind. Was it triggered by distance, time, G
>> force, or just because there was a maverick at the wheel?
>
> Maybe it's the same problem that afflicts traction control & ABS at
> about 0.8g.

Didn't have a problem with ABS just the normal "Active Handling"
message that is supposed to come on and the chime. Is the problem you
are speaking of always at about .8 Gs?

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:53:05 -0500, "Dad" > wrote:

>Coming home about 2 miles I didn't fasten my seat belt just to be a
>maverick. There are 2, 90 degree turns that drew a .8 on the G meter
>in the first one and a very loud seat belt chime and the active
>handling came on.
>
>Question to anyone that has driven without seat belts long enough to
>get a warning of any kind. Was it triggered by distance, time, G
>force, or just because there was a maverick at the wheel?
After you drive a few minutes without a seat belt, you get a chime
tone -- four time I think. It may get repeated after a while, but I've
never driven more than a mile or so without a seat belt.

Try it a few more times. Validate.

Maybe pulling all those Gs caused you to hallucinate.

John

John Shepardson wrote:
> Maybe pulling all those Gs caused you to hallucinate.
>
> John
OK, but we don't know which way he was turning and whether Dad's left
brained or right brained or.... Let's not go there!

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"John Shepardson" > wrote in message
...
> Maybe pulling all those Gs caused you to hallucinate.
>
> John

Actually .8 Gs is not hard to pull, just hard to read the HUD when
you're busy doing something else. It's easy to pull .6 on a sweeping
entry ramp at less than full throttle and the .8 was on a 90 degree
corner. I have pulled more then that without hallucinating but had the
help of a flight suit in an F16D. Being weightless bothered me more
but was able to avoid any FOD in my oxygen system.

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LOL There is no way to really tell!
He's always finding himself with vision going grayscale in the periphery
and then going into tunnelvision. It's called, him watching high school
cheerleaders practice down the street! :-)

John Shepardson wrote:

>Maybe pulling all those Gs caused you to hallucinate.
>
>John
>
>

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