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To: Bruce Ravelson who wrote (67008)	9/23/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Ken Beal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

BTW, is that '99 Corvette related to DELL in any way? Absolutely. Michael Dell is my adulthood hero (along with K. Eric Drexler -- yes, that's right, I can't resist the urge to toss nanotechnology into every post ;-). I hope to see you driving a (345 HP) Corvette soon. They have a ton of cool features. The traction control is the coolest, though -- I took a corner in the rain, foot on the floor, and the back end started slipping out to the left. I felt the left rear tire apply the brakes, and the car straightened out and rocketed to 60 in 4.8 seconds, in the rain. My foot never left the floor. The car has a binary gas pedal (it's either on, or off). <VBG> It also has a heads-up display, first model year to have it. That makes driving so much safer -- I always know how fast I'm going, and can "cruise control" by myself (I also use the regular cruise control a lot, because it sucks to be just jumping in front of someone and then realize you're doing 80 on a regular 45 three-lane road! It's a lot of power). I never look at the dash. That is, unless the upper left corner of the HUD says "Check gages" (sic) and I look down at the text bar, which says "Reserve fuel", so I see the tank on E and pull into a gas station. The car won't let me run out of gas! (I know, other cars have idiot lights and chimes, but the HUD component of that solution makes it cool. ;-) The text bar can display a number of things, including trip options (A & B, time, average mph), fuel options (miles left in the tank, oil life remaining, instant & average mpg, etc.), you can change certain options through the control panel -- just like a computer! Whether the alarm uses lights, horn, or both when arming; whether it should unlock both doors when the car is turned off; lots of others. It even displays the tire pressure. And it has the new "run-on-flat" tires -- I can go 200 miles at 55 mph after drilling a hole in the sidewall. (Haven't tested that, of course... ;-) The only thing I don't like is the visibility -- my old Mustang had better visibility with the top up. But I plan to get one of those mirror wedges to stick on the left outside mirror. (Visibility on the right is amazing -- like you're inside a bubble.) ======================================================== So it looks like the market has shaken off Starr. I bet we'll still have politicians in a nanotech world. After all, they provide us with endless entertainment. Cheers, KenB PS I'm near where the hurricane's going to beach. The good news is the winds are down to 95 mph, so as long as I can get to 75 I can race the hurricane across Florida. Once I get to Naples I can decide if I need to go North. Too many people going north right now, and I'd rather put a hundred miles of terrain between me and the hurricane. Fleeing up the coast it's going to hit doesn't strike me as particularly safe -- because we won't know exactly where it will hit until it does. Of course, by now Pompano is at the top end of the strike zone, so perhaps fleeing on this side wouldn't be that bad. And besides, the car can only go as fast as the traffic in front of it. ;-)