What's with this heartbeat dealie Volvo is advertising?
I was just watching a Volvo commercial, let's forget for a moment about the f'ing jackasses they show driving their cars and not paying attention to the road, thereby needing the accident avoidance radar...
I want to focus on something at the end of the commercial. A girl is walking towards her car and she looks at her key fob and there are a couple of blinking red lights, and they say something about 'heartbeat locater' and she turns around and walks away from the car.
Now I had read about this in a Clancy novel, is this a real thing, like the technology now exists to locate a hearbeat? Even if it's just locating it in the car or next to the car, that's pretty impressive.
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There is such a thing I did route sales for a Deli company and had to deliver to a max security prison. Before I could leave they put these big brass looking sensor on the truck and it would tell them if there was a hearbeat on the truck! Kinda cool!
yeah, the heartbeat monitor.. they were talking about that a few mo's back - i haven't heard/seen a commercial with it though. They also have a "Driver Alert Control" - senses how alert it thinks you are. The heart-beat monitor is supposed to let you know how many people are in the car basically. Good for parents, and .. the paranoid people who watched too many scary movies.. lol
yeah, the heartbeat monitor.. they were talking about that a few mo's back - i haven't heard/seen a commercial with it though. They also have a "Driver Alert Control" - senses how alert it thinks you are. The heart-beat monitor is supposed to let you know how many people are in the car basically. Good for parents, and .. the paranoid people who watched too many scary movies.. lol
Like joe rogan says, we have to find the people who invent this shit and make sure they fuck, and fuck alot, and have lots of kids. I don't know any of these people, I want to know who they are. Shit, I could hardly start a fire without matches.
Like joe rogan says, we have to find the people who invent this shit and make sure they fuck, and fuck alot, and have lots of kids. I don't know any of these people, I want to know who they are. Shit, I could hardly start a fire without matches.
I'm not even sure I can, better give me the lighter, and not just any lighter, because child proof might be 'me proof', give me the long gas fireplace style lighter
I can start a fire with a coke can and chocolate, so I pretty much understand how this works. The Tom Clancy novel was Rainbow Six.
Oh, I was basically joking around. A stick, some string, and 5 minutes, and I can get a fire going heheh.
I love Clancy novels, although the last two have been a little weak in terms of plot admittedly. I think the super powers made for great material for him, it's a more difficult concept when you are writing fiction based on real life warfare nowadays, it's not the two big guys on the block anymore.
I forget who it was a few months back that was bashing this. I always thought it was a good idea and if I had a daughter or my girl drove I'd want one of these on their cars.
Hell when I drove a vehicle with a big back seat I'd get in sometimes when it was in the middle of the night in a bad neighborhood and I'd wail on the back seat area and behind the seats. Paranoia yeah but holy fuck if you hit something. You already got in two or three good shots in when they weren't expecting it.
Seems like a neat system to me. Can't see a reason no to put it into a car that's not going to suffer from a few more sensors and wires.
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Paranoia yeah but holy fuck if you hit something. You already got in two or three good shots in when they weren't expecting it.
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The reason they can put down decent 1/4mile times is mostly in part to the solid rear axel and its ability to hook and go. But we all know that doesnt mean crap from a dig.
Oh, I was basically joking around. A stick, some string, and 5 minutes, and I can get a fire going heheh.
I love Clancy novels, although the last two have been a little weak in terms of plot admittedly. I think the super powers made for great material for him, it's a more difficult concept when you are writing fiction based on real life warfare nowadays, it's not the two big guys on the block anymore.
My favorite will always be Red Storm Rising...
Currently re-reading that one for about the 10th time.
Also liked the one that tells Mr. Clark's story.
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Currently re-reading that one for about the 10th time.
Also liked the one that tells Mr. Clark's story.
My two favorites also...
Although I agree that Clancy's material has gotten weaker, I still enjoy it, except that one book about the secret intelligence agency and the ryan kid working there, and the son of another main clancy character being an operative for them, The Teeth of a Tiger I think? That one was honestly awful. Clancy was trying to use too many existing characters mixed with new ones and the plot just didn't ever go anywhere. It's interesting because that's the last book by him I read and I can't even remember hardly anything about it, but I can remember Red Storm Rising from reading it more than 10 years ago.
I remember on 9/11 I thought of Debt of Honor, and I often wondered if some of the ideas for the attacks came from that book, and then on a PBS show Clancy discussed that, and how he wondered the same thing. In Debt of Honor, a japanese pilot basically kamikazes an airliner into congress.
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What's with this heartbeat dealie Volvo is advertising?
I did route sales for a Deli company and had to deliver to a max security prison. Before I could leave they put these big brass looking sensor on the truck and it would tell them if there was a hearbeat on the truck! Kinda cool!
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