Props for the guy's vertical to get up there in the first place.
I weigh on Fridays but I expect about a 20 lb. gain for each of the kids. Goodness! They feel so much heavier than just a few days ago. And the herd seems to have worked out the new dynamic with Sundae only chasing Stella away a couple of times a day instead of the almost constant terrorizing we had the first week. I hope Stella can bond with the kids because in a month or two she's going to lose her BFF, Itzhak. Those two are pretty much inseparable; if you can see one the other is within 20'.
Besides being a week of date palindromes, 7/12/17 is a noteworthy day in our family. It's my dad's birthday (95 this year), Michelle's birthday (she's not nearly that old), and Josh & Aubri's anniversary (20 years already).
I can't imagine we'll ever own a car with all the "safe driving" technology that's available now unless we live another 50 years and the govt. makes those features required equipment. So if one of you has a car with lane alert - the system that sets off a 90 decibel alarm if you drift out of your lane - how does that work? How does it know you've drifted into another lane as opposed to intentionally changing lanes, or going around a curve? Never mind passing a slower vehicle. Does using your turn signal turn off that alert system? If so there's a silver lining here inasmuch as it motivates people to use their turn signals. But apart from sensors in the lane lines (which doesn't exist...yet) I can't figure out how it works.
I've all but quit watching national news. The first to go was my early morning viewing which used to alternate between MSNBC and FOXNews (how's that for unfair and imbalanced?). But the morning talking heads turned into grinding wheels for axes from one end of the spectrum or the other. The evening news is 10 minutes of news and 20 minutes of fluff and human interest stories. I like PBS News Hour but it's an hour long and I share MoHo with someone who is not a news hound. That's OK because I can get everything via online news sites.
Not that they're any more objective than TV news, but I can click and/or scroll past the obviously bogus. One red flag is the word, report. It allows a site to repeat almost anything as "news" because it has been reported. That report might have come from Charlie Andrews and his 8th grade class at Central Jr. Hi. school, but never mind that detail.
"Report: White House plans to change color to red"
Add in a wiggle word like could, or might and the possibilities are endless.
Report: Russia may be on the verge of controlling U.S. election process.
Three of the Big Four are out at Wimbledon. Djokovic and Murray are injured and Nadal just got beat. (Murray got beat, too, but clearly had a physical problem.) That makes it even easier for me to pull for Roger Federer, one of my favorite players. What a classy guy.
And a fun fact: 25 years ago Andre Agassiz won his first major at Wimbledon. Steffi Graph won the women's side that year (her fourth Wimbledon title), and they're now married.
Awwww.
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You are correct on Lane Drift Assist (LDA). Sensors identify when a car passes over white lines and, unless the blinkers are activated, the car believes it is "drifting". That's how our system works.
Does it activate on a curve? Or does it sense the lane line color?
I take the "racer's line" on the gentle curves on our rural road (virtually no traffic and clear sight line). It's my Walter Mitty escape. Might not work so well with LDA.
While most/many cars allow you to deactivate LDA, yes, it also works on curves where white or yellow lines exist (at least our Lexus works on both colors of lines). If you want to "Walter Mitty" the curves, just turn off LDA for the experience and reactivate it later. I turn my LDA off when I'm driving around town or "attacking the curves" but I activate it when I'm on longer trips, especially if it involves during long, boring stretches of road.
With LDA activated, what happens when you need to suddenly swerve to miss a piece of road debris or a deer? Seems to me that you'll have to fight the car to overcome the assist system. Bad!
Mike: LDA is not a steering device, it is merely an audible warning system (beeping). It "warns" you if you're drifting out of your lane (sans turn signals)
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