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Question #1:

Toyota runaway cars dilemma?

There are some things I don't understand about the self accelerating Toyota cars. #1: Why wouldn't the driver simply put the transmission into neutral and brake to a stop? Don't worry about damaging an engine.due to too high rpm #2: Turn the ignition key off, making sure you don't turn it too far and lock the steering wheel. Apply the brakes and don't release. If the brakes are used in this manner, and not "pumped", there should be enough vacuum assist to bring the car to a stop. There won't be any power steering, and steering will be pretty "stiff" but any adult should be able to steer it in a nearly straight line and through minor curves. Does anyone have insights into this. Any comments welcome

Question #2:

What are some important things to know when purchasing your first car?

So I've been looking in to cars recently because I live in New York and the transportation sucks so i'm looking to buy my first car even if it's used but I prefer it brand new I am looking for a Honda fit that is automatic and I wanted to know if there's any tips I should know before buying a new car

Question #3:

What's the best used car to buy?

My price range is $5000 and I've seen some good looking options on www.autotrader.ca i.e. Mazda Protege's, Honda Civics, Hyundai Accents/Elantra's, Volkwagon Jetta's. They're usually around the 150km range, some with only one owner. I just want to get feedback from people who have purchased used Cars. Any Horror Stories? Success Stories. Please share your experience as I want to make a well informed decision.

Question #4:

Cost of tuning up car that hasn't been used in years?

I don't need a car right now, but this is for future reference. My uncle has an 86 Toyota Supra that has been sitting in his garage for several years. He initially put it off the road because he needed a better snow car. So basically, what happens to a car that hasn't been touched in so long and how much would it cost to fix it up if there aren't any major repairs that need to be done?

I am unsure whether or not there is still gas in the tank and/or fluids still in it.

Question #5:

What would be the chance that Obama Care would be found unconstitutional?

No where does government have the right to force us to buy a service from a private company, unless it is tied to a decision that the individual makes to use something.
People that do not drive, do not need car insurance. It is an agreed upon term to use the roads. It is also regulated by the states, not the Feds. You can also drive anything you want on private property without insurance or permission from the government.

Question #6:

Graphing time-velocity and finding time and distance...........?

A motorbike and a car are waiting side by side at traffic lights. When the lights turn to green, the motorbike accelerates at 2.5 m/s^2 up to a top speed of 20m/s, and the car accelerates at 1.5m/s^2 up to a top speed of 30m/s. Both then continue to move at constant speed. Draw (t,v) graphs for each vehicle, using the same axes, and sketch the (t,s) graphs.

(a) After what time will the motorbike and the car again be side by side?
(b) What is the greatest distance that the motorbike is in front of the car?

Question #7:

So much to know about car audio :O?

Ok, this is the third post i have made. I am beginning to become confused. LOL.

I was originally thinking SPL, but, I would be going for everyday use, so that's out, and I wouldn't enter comps, unless i wanted some fun.

So, I have gone between so many types of brands and subs, i am completely head *F-Bombed* about what to do.

What should I go for? I would like to stay under $3500 AUD for a first sound system. I would like about 2-3000 watts so It will last my basshead needs forever :P

I don't want SPL because I like bass, but not bad quality blow your brains out bass. I have been told by people on here it is SQ vs SPL, i choose SQ so I am still kindof stuck. Any suggestions on what to get for good SQ, head thumping power and a good price. I have been looking at Fi BTL's Fi in general, Kicker, JL, and also Soundstream which i know is quite good.

So, Soundstream Tarantula T5's 1000watt each (2 of em) and not sure on what amps, and the rest. I know if I go to my local car audio specialist, they will tell me what I need, but I would like to have something on my mind, recommended by whoever reads this. Like I said, good SQ, decent amount of power and not burning a hole in my wallet :)

(what is better than soundstream and JL for SQ and power?)

Question #8:

what is the title of this movie?

it's a spaceship movie (kind of). looks like old movie or the style is oldish. comedy genre.

- the spaceship (use for transporting people) looked like an ordinary plane we use nowadays
- there's a scene where the pilot and the girl beside him bbq-ing in the cockpit 'cuz they were too close to the sun and it was very hot
- the plane can drift 180 degree like a car
- there's a passenger who brought a bomb, so the flight attendant said something like this to the passengers "for those who bring bomb in your suitcase, please come into cockpit so the other passenger won't panic" ^^;

first person who guess the title correctly will be the best answer ^^

Question #9:

Is this reasonable, how am I?

So my mom told me yesterday that with her tax refund she is going to fix her '98 toyota camry and give it to me. It crapped out on us a few months back and she bought a dodge durango.

She is also buying some guns and gun accessories etc....so the whole refund is not going to the car.

I was super excited until she dropped the bomb that I will be paying her back for the repairs.....
Woah ho ho....now typically I would be fine with this kind of deal since it is only fair BUT that's not all she expects.

She wants to take me off her car insurance and me go on my own. I am 20 and on her plan its cheaper for me to just pay her $150 vs. paying nearly $300+ in car insurance.
Then there is gas, which if my math is right I should get a little over 300 miles to the tank, 18mi/gallon, 19gal capacity. $50 to fill up completely. So maybe $50 a week for gas? $200 a month maybe..

So far that $500-600 a month for the car alone with insurance and gas, no way can I afford to pay back the repairs too, especially since she wants to make me have to pay more in insurance.

There are two choices:

A: I stay on her insurance so it's cheaper for me and I just pay her the money. I don't pay the repairs back because I didn't break the car. I pay for my gas, insurance under her name and any future repairs.

B: She takes me off her insurance and I get bent over by the insurance company because of my age. I pay the repairs and gas and stay broke with no way to save up money.

Who thinks choice A makes so much sense even a caveman could choose it?

I am responsible, I need to get a job to save up money for police academy which I am either going to in August or January of next year and I need to pay some medical bills off instead and take care of some health issues and go to the dentist and doctor....Its not that I don't want to pay but I have better uses to put any money I make towards...

So A or B?
And what would you do?

Question #10:

Write a metaphor using the comparison given.Don't forget end sentence punctuation.?

1) compare a chimney to a man smoking a pipe.
2)compare a cat's eyes to headlights of a car.
3)compare the sunshine to warm fire.
Please help me!
Best answer gets 10 points.
Thanks.
It's for tomorrow so help me today.

Question #11:

which website i can find finest USED CARS IN KERALA?

I am in real search of an used cars.. as i am working in UAE i need it through internet.. i searched some and no one feels to be worthy.. plz advice me

Question #12:

I feel really bad about this fight with my former boss, should I apologize though?

used to work part time as a desk clerk at this motel, a Days Inn that's franchised as a matter of fact, and I got into it with my former boss, who is this like young girl who is like 21 which is 4 years older then me, and really her parents own the motel but she really runs it since they don't know english too well. Anyway she tried to get me to work overnight which I don't do and she knows this so she told me I had to because obviously I needed the money but I told her I didn't and SHE should work instead since she must need the money then she told me kind of snobbishly that her parents own the hotel and they have nice cars so she didn't NEED money like I did! So I told her that if she really had so much money she wouldn't be living in the motel and her family would have a real house (They stay in a couple of rooms in the motel) like I did and I didn't really need this job I just took it because I was bored and many parents are both doctors and they CAN afford their own house and probably have more money then they will ever have! She got offended by this and fired me after which I told her something very profane. I feel really bad about it since I'm normally a nice person and I'm thinking of going back to apologize since what i said made me no better then her, which is not the person I want to be, so should I apologize or just let it go?

Question #13:

I feel bad about this fight with my former employer but should I?

I used to work part time as a desk clerk at this motel, a Days Inn that's franchised as a matter of fact, and I got into it with my former boss, who is this like young girl who is like 21 which is 3 years older then me, and really her parents own the motel but she really runs it since they don't know english too well. Anyway she tried to get me to work overnight which I don't do and she knows this so she told me I had to because obviously I needed the money but I told her I didn't and SHE should work instead since she must need the money then she told me kind of snobbishly that her parents own the hotel and they have nice cars so she didn't NEED money like I did! So I told her that if she really had so much money she wouldn't be living in the motel and her family would have a real house (They stay in a couple of rooms in the motel) like I did and I didn't really need this job I just took it because I was bored and many parents are both doctors and they CAN afford their own house and probably have more money then they will ever have! SHe got offended by this and fired me after which I told her something very profane. I feel really bad about it since I'm normally a nice person and I'm thinking of going back to apologize since what i said made me no better then her, which is not the person I want to be, so should I apologize or just let it go?

Question #14:

why are people so stupid?

am i the only one that thinks that some Americans are way over their heads? when i say this i mean, acting to a dog as you would to a child. i have neighbors, who not only accused my father of "killing a dog", but have went far enough to spread it down the whole street, and to all the new people who move in to the neighborhood. now, everyone hates us. there are a couple things wrong with this accusation. back in 1995, my dad and my mother moved into the home we are currently at *no, im not a failure living with his parents, im 15). the dog, was right there when the cops showed up. they took it to court, and they failed. next, just last summer, we sprayed some weeds with weed killer. these were growing on a tree between two property lines, but the part of the tree that the weed was on, was on out property. they called the cops. saying that we tried "poisoning their dog". the most recent thing that happened was just, retarded. me and 2 friends were playing football. we live on a street that is mainly used as a shortcut, and gets like 1 car every 2 minutes. in other words, it's a quiet street. i ran behind my neighbors car (well behind, at least 10 feet), and then threw the ball away. the bitch comes outside, and stands by her car. by this point, it started raining, so she got an umbrella. so we did the same thing. we got a jumbo umbrella, and all stood under it, and stared at her. this went on for 15 minutes before she gave up. now away from my life, think of this. Michael Vick was convicted for dog fighting. he went to prison for 2 years before being released. i'm not saying that what he did was insignificant, it was bad. but Dante Stallworth ran over a man, killing him, and faced 2 months. now, am i not getting something, or am i just strange. I thought that HUMAN life was more important than a dogs life. once again, im not saying that a dog's life is insignificant, because i know that one of those 911 abusing idiots will read this. but seriously, who agrees with me?

Question #15:

I am selling my car on Craigslist...?

and I have someone who wants to test drive it... Do I go with, or do I give them a time limit or something?

I've test driven cars at two used car dealerships in town- One let me take the car myself, and the other dealer went with me. And I've never bought off of Craigslist.

What's appropriate here?

Question #16:

As you drive your car along a country road at night?

As you drive your car along a country road at night, a deer jumps out of the woods and stands in the middle of the road ahead of you. This occurs just as you are passing from a 55-mi/h zone to a 50-mi/h zone. At the 50-mi/h speed-limit sign, you slam on the car's brakes, causing them to lock up, and skid to a stop inches from the startled deer. As you breathe a sigh of relief, you hear the sound of a police siren. The policeman proceeds to write you a ticket for driving 56 mi/h in 50-mi/h zone. Because of your preparation in physics, you are able to use the 33.5-m-long skid marks that your car left behind as evidence that you were not speeding. Based on your evidence, at what speed were you actually driving? (The coefficient of friction between between automobile tires and dry concrete is 0.80.)

Question #17:

Thinking about suicide, PLEASE somebody help?

Let me start off by saying- this is the FIRST time I have reached out for help. I know people like to give funny answers. Please don't. This is a serious question, & I honestly need help. Thank you.
I'm 17 years old & I'm thinking about killing myself tonight.I have not always been this way. I used to be VERY happy & outgoing. I made straight A's, had tons of friends, got along with family, was VERY involved in theater (I was a techie), & thousands of other good things. I was on top of the world, I was young, gorgeous, & everything was going great for me. But well life happens.
On November 1, 2009 around 2am in the morning I let my dog out. I was standing outside waiting for Nila to finish her business when I saw a guy fall down near the road & walked over there to help him. That's when he grabbed me. Yeah I know dumb. I walked RIGHT into a trap. He didn't rape me all the way, but he did some pretty graphic stuff to me/forced me to do to him. I manged to get away (at this point he had me in his car) & ran back into my house.
Now I know what your thinking. She told her family right? No. I was way to ashamed & felt that it was my fault (I mean I DID walk over there to help him). To this day, nobody knows. I mean NOBODY. This is the first time that I've told this.
By now my life is crap. After IT happened, I didn't go to school. I have not been to school since. My mom & I have been filled apon for truancy ( I just got withdrawn from the school last month). We told my dad I was doing homeschooling, & that the charges have been dropped. Of course they havn't. Then I told my parents that I wanted to go back to public school & there taking me to enroll tomorrow.
I cant do it. I'm going to have to repeat my junior year, dads going to find out that there are still charges & that I wasn't in homeschool. Honestly I don't want to be alive anymore. I cant get over it. I have nightmares EVERY single night. So I stopped sleeping. In the past week I've had maybe 6 hours of restless sleep? I cry over everything, I have NO friends anymore (there's 2 people that still text me but I never reply). My family dosn't like me anymore becouse I'm mean to them ( I'm not lying. My parents have told me this. They just said it again 30 mins ago). I look like crap. I used to be gorgeous ( sorry if I sound like I'm bragging). I was 5'2, had pretty skin, great hair, great teeth, just great everything. Now I look like crap. I weigh 85 pounds (I just weighed myself), my hair is so thin & strands come out a lot. I've started cutting myself (it's on my thighs so nobody can tell). I have so many scars from that.
I've lost myself. I used to be so happy, & know I don't want to be alive. Wait! No I take that back. There's a tiny shred of me that's still hanging on. I want to fight for my life. But where do I start? I'm so lost. There's a bunch of pills in a baggy right next to me. I'm so close to taking every one of them.
Please somebody help. I need somebody to talk to. If I don't talk to somebody in the next hour, I WILL take those pills. No joke. Like I said there's a teeny tiny shred that wants to fight. I want to at least try.

Question #18:

I'm broken & I don't know what to do( SERIOUS advice needed please)?

Question #19:

physics problem help pleasee?

At an accident scene on a level road, investigators measure a car's skid mark to be 83 m long. It was a rainy day and the coefficient of friction was estimated to be 0.38. Use these data to determine the speed of the car when the driver slammed on (and locked) the brakes.

Question #20:

What do you think of this?

Since my husband-to-be and I will be moving overseas after the wedding, we decided to have a wishing well instead of registry. We belong to a culture in which wishing wells, money dances, and such are well accepted traditions and not considered tacky (so, please, no "that's sooo tacky!" criticisms from those cultures with opposite beliefs). We would really be thankful to receive some cash as that would really help us start our life, but we do not want to really mention about cash.

Since we can't find a wishing well poem that suits us, I composed this little poem yesterday for our wishing well and would like to ask for feedbacks about it before I consider it final for our use. Here it is:

(--start of poem---)

You may be used to bringing gifts
To a newlyweds' celebration
But we desire for you to know
Our not-so-typical situation

We plan to fly across the seas
When all is said and done
So we can't bring a house and lot
Or car if we have one.

Your presence is a gift enough
Accompanied with a smile
Already we'd be really grateful
That you have spared a while

But just in case that you insist
To share a little something
We shall install a wishing well
At the place of merrymaking.

And if you want, you may drop
A nice card of well wishes,
A favorite recipe of yours,
Or list of sound advices.

Then to repay your act of kindness
And brighten up your day
Please pick a fortune from the bucket
Then you may go your way.

(--end of poem---)

Oh, regarding the last part... we plan to put some little rolled pieces paper on the bucket containing fortunes, so guests can pick up a fortune to read just for fun, since we're not gonna have fortune cookies.

We're just leaving it to their judgment if they'd insert some cash in the card or not. We want them to know our situation so that they won't bring us bulky gifts that we won't be able to take with us anyway.

Please, I am asking for constructive feedbacks, not negative, rude criticisms. Thank you.

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