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[sarah]

how many peadophiles can you get in the back of a mini?

did you end up buying a car yet? if so what did you get?
and how much was your insurance (if that's not too rude to ask...your on a provisional, right?)? buying one in march so all info is greatly appreciated

 

[Unknown Convict]

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.

As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these stunts appeared on the car’s digital display: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, wearing their trademark track suits. A nice touch, I thought.

The Jeep’s strange behavior wasn’t entirely unexpected. I’d come to St. Louis to be Miller and Valasek’s digital crash-test dummy, a willing subject on whom they could test the car-hacking research they’d been doing over the past year. The result of their work was a hacking technique—what the security industry calls a zero-day exploit—that can target Jeep Cherokees and give the attacker wireless control, via the Internet, to any of thousands of vehicles. Their code is an automaker’s nightmare: software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.

To better simulate the experience of driving a vehicle while it’s being hijacked by an invisible, virtual force, Miller and Valasek refused to tell me ahead of time what kinds of attacks they planned to launch from Miller’s laptop in his house 10 miles west. Instead, they merely assured me that they wouldn’t do anything life-threatening. Then they told me to drive the Jeep onto the highway. “Remember, Andy,” Miller had said through my iPhone’s speaker just before I pulled onto the Interstate 64 on-ramp, “no matter what happens, don’t panic.”1

As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That’s when they cut the transmission.

Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Thinking of buying a car. Not sure what yet.

Maybe an ol' Saab.

 

[therealjohnny]

Fancy owning a classic mini?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Fancy owning a classic mini?

Was thinking of this yoke.
Looks decent, less than 100k on the odometer and would cost less than $40/week.

2008 Saab 9-3 2.0T, $7,195 - Cars.com

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

@MDR is the Saab expert, isn't he?

And he's gone. Bugger.

 

[therealjohnny]

I like Saabs that look like Saabs. They lost it in the 90s

But that seems like a very good deal

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I like Saabs that look like Saabs. They lost it in the 90s

But that seems like a very good deal

Plus I live across the street from a mechanic that specialises in Saabs.

I used to have one of these and loved it. Never a day's trouble with it.

2002 Saab 9-3 SE, $2,800 - Cars.com

Not sure I'd go any older than that though.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Used cop cars are cool, but impractical

2011 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, $7,495 - Cars.com

 

[therealjohnny]

I love older cars but my current experience makes me think this'll be my last

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I love older cars but my current experience makes me think this'll be my last

I know guys that do it, but they're the type that love to be under the hood for half their weekend tinkering and fixing.

I'm just not that type.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I regret not accepting my sister's offer of her old saab a few years ago. My brother in law is happily driving it since. I couldn't and can't afford to be buying petrol and getting it fixed though.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I regret not accepting my sister's offer of her old saab a few years ago. My brother in law is happily driving it since. I couldn't and can't afford to be buying petrol and getting it fixed though.

I left mine for my brother-in-law. In tip-top nick.

He never bothered his hole for almost a year to come and collect it. It got stolen and the Gards don't care.

 

[therealjohnny]

absolute cunts

Insurers refuse to cover older vehicles - Independent.ie


I don't believe older cars are involved in more accidents. Our poxy NCTs ensure that all cars are equally safe on the roads. By doing this they are effectively saying that the NCT is pointless.


In this country it is illegal to drive an uninsured car, yet the insurance industry can set whatever prices they like and the government bleat that they are powerless to do anything about it. A law can be rammed through the system if they want, but when it comes to business and contracts they wring their hand and shrug their shoulders.

cunts.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Insurers refuse to cover older vehicles - Independent.ie

Does this apply to classic minis too?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Now thinking of a Touareg

Although have started a spreadsheet on costs and the amount I use the car, it might be cheaper to rent.

 

[therealjohnny]

Does this apply to classic minis too?

Some insurers do special "classic" policies. But they usually only cover vehicles that do very little mileage, aiming more at the vintage, show car crowd. I know plenty of people who use their 60s and 70s cars as daily drivers and have classic insurance. Not sure what the case would be if it came to paying out.

Mine does fuck all mileage these days so I might get on to them.