Idiots + cars = LOL

[nist7]

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/08/car-plows-through-restaurant-after-driver-confuses-pedals/

So when do people start filing "unintended acceleration" claims against Honda? :lol:

 

[TC]

So when do people start filing "unintended acceleration" claims against Honda? :lol:

It's called VTEC and it's never unintended!

 

[Blind_Io]

 

[CAPT_Howdy]

The Pepsi sign in that picture says it all. "WOW" indeed.

 

[GRtak]

I have seen peeps light up while holding the gas nozzle.........

 

[narf]

Is it just me or is the nozzle connected to the tube by some duct tape?

 

[Blind_Io]

It's just you. That's the standard metal fitting used on all US fuel pumps.

 

[Spectre]

That metal band is the stainless steel ferrule that clamps the hose assembly to the angled swivel fitting, IIRC.

 

[AiR]

Weird.

 

[Spectre]

Weird.

Not really, it keeps the end of the hose from fraying or coming loose (thus avoiding a rather predictable disaster.) It's used even on pumps that don't have a swivel fitting on the nozzle. (This is my own pic from a few days ago, taken for another reason.)

US pump hoses also have a breakaway coupler/shutoff at the end nearest the pump unit itself in an attempt to keep people who drive off with pump nozzles still attached to their cars from causing a worse disaster.

 

[GRtak]

 

[narf]

Not really, it keeps the end of the hose from fraying or coming loose (thus avoiding a rather predictable disaster.) It's used even on pumps that don't have a swivel fitting on the nozzle. (This is my own pic from a few days ago, taken for another reason.)

That fitting looks similar to ours, and is perfectly understandable. However, it's fairly different from the one seen in the smoking lady pictures

 

[Spectre]

That fitting looks similar to ours, and is perfectly understandable. However, it's fairly different from the one seen in the smoking lady pictures

They just stuck a swivel/pivot fitting between the end of the hose and the nozzle unit, like so:

 

[AiR]

Yeah I don't get that part. Must limit the flow surely.

 

[rickhamilton620]

Yeah I don't get that part. Must limit the flow surely.

It makes it easier to insert if you're not positioned next to the pump just right. The flow feels fine to me...

 

[Spectre]

Yeah I don't get that part. Must limit the flow surely.

Not appreciably. I've seen both fast and slow pumps with the swivel connector - it does help keep from getting the hose snarled up and it serves as a strain relief so that the nozzle doesn't want to come out of the car - or so you aren't having to constantly fight hose tension if you have a motorcycle.

 

[narf]

They just stuck a swivel/pivot fitting between the end of the hose and the nozzle unit, like so:

Ah. From the other smaller pictures the joint looked like a simple grey soft collapsed tube, such as a duct tape pipe.

 

[Spectre]

Ah. From the other smaller pictures the joint looked like a simple grey soft collapsed tube, such as a duct tape pipe.

While I wouldn't be surprised if some cretin in BFE Alabama had done exactly that, I've never actually seen someone using a duct tape joint at that position.

 

[Shawnw]

I remember getting yelled at by an old guy while working at the gas station in high school because I wouldnt fill up hispropane tank while he smoked a cigar two feet from me.

 

[narf]

While I wouldn't be surprised if some cretin in BFE Alabama had done exactly that, I've never actually seen someone using a duct tape joint at that position.

Hence my amazement about thinking I'd see that there.