Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Wasn’t the easiest, especially in Recaro seats; it’s like typing with Tyrannosaurus Rex arms.
The back seat was slightly less arduous.
My desk, oh boy.
Friday night I was telling my neighbour all about it:
Him: isn’t your kitchen table in your trailer?
Me: yaaa…
Him: well there you go
Me: woah – the solution was here the whole time!
Tada! Pretty great eh.
Have power, and even a plant for decoration.
Anything you read by me this week will come from here.
I first tried a self-parking system about 3 years ago, thought it was neat but un-nerving, and I declared it too slow to be helpful.
3 years later – and coincidentally in another Ford Focus – I test the system again.
Test Results – the new system is slick, and now both the speed and quality of its parking is better than a human.
Read it online at Autonet.
Still, though, I think that if you can’t parallel park, and are too scared to practice and improve, you should get off the road.
Sonar works similar to radar, and here’s how that works.
Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index
Tuesday Ford invited me to test drive their 2012 Ford Focus for a day via a car rally.
They partnered us each up, that’s my awesome cohort Ryan Durrell in brown.
(photo by Morsel Photography Hi Jerry! Look I stole more of your photos!)
The day kicked off with Ford saying, “here, go run our car through that slalem course, hard as you can”. Oh reallllly?!?! I got this.
I made that thing fly, and below is me standing on the brakes, and tada, cones are prefectly intact. I told them I was surprised how well it took the corners. Torque vectoring FTW.
Remember that time I did advanced driving school? Exploring a Race Car (video)
Each team was given an iPod Touch to film their experiences, and then Ford handed us our footage from the day on a USB key. So sorry for the poor audio.
Have you ever edited iPod or iPhone footage? Ugh. All that tall footage is tough to work with. And I don’t get it, why wouldn’t Final Cut talk better with .movs? Anyway.
How many horse power? Would you like a cupcake?
I learned that a horse is 14.3 hands high, anything smaller is considered a pony.
We stopped by the Canadian Car Museum , so many nice cars. I will never call them whips :|
Here’s Lauren and I, ha.
Interesting fact – the Focus is 85% of each pound of material used to build the car is recycled material.
Then I gave a little lecture.
Thanks for a great day, Ford!
If you ever need me to test another car on a track, I can do that!
All. Day. Long.
