Comments on: Girl Racer’s 360

By: Ana at work

Ana at work — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:16:54 +0000

Evan,

Anyone can subscribe to the Motochek NZ service through Baycorp Advantage and snoop credit histories and car regos. This service is a hack’s best friend – that and the habitation indexes from the electoral roll.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:31:08 +0000

Two comments here:

1. Ana. How will getting car plate numbers allow you to “phone her parents”? Do you journos have a legal way of looking up plate owners? ( or is it a shady 20 notes slipped to someone in Min.of Trans?)

2. Rich. Cruise control “Resume” function should not work when car is below 40km/hr. You can still do it but you have to willing to jump ship at a decent speed.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:33:00 +0000

Farmers and others often use the low ratio feature on 4WDs to allow them to climb out and open a gate, then get back in after their unmanned truck has rolled through. This is reasonably safe as the vehicle will be going quite slowly.

Not at all safe is to use the R/A feature on a cruise control (this button is fitted to many American cars and causes the vehicle to return to the speed it had been travelling at before cruise was disengaged by braking). If you drive as fast as you can, set the cruise, brake down to walking pace and jump out, clicking the R/A as you go the car will become an unmanned, accelerating, projectile.

By: merc

merc — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:16:48 +0000

We have had a car surfing fatality here in NZ, Queenstown, 1996?

By: Polemic

Polemic — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:55:07 +0000

I know right – and the way the kids clothes match his car perfectly

By: Robyn

Robyn — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:03:17 +0000

I was horrified by the beige suburban back-drop in the ghost-ride carjack video. (Of course, that’s where white gangstas live.)

By: Hamish

Hamish — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:57:01 +0000

woot, found it

By: Polemic

Polemic — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:06:20 +0000

There is a hilarious one that I’ll try to find after work: skinny white kid is ghost riding his car in suburbia while his mate films – opportinistic passy-by jumps and and drives off. It’s a classic.

By: llew

llew — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:00:51 +0000

I like the way he indicates left, just before veering right into the lamp post.