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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:12:12 -0500
From: -Bob- <noemailnopsammain.com>
Subject: Re: BMWs keep trying to smoke me!


On 18 Feb 2003 21:15:45 GMT, davehinznopsamcop.net wrote: >Hm, http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,833532,00.asp and >the article at slashdot seem to indicate otherwise. Perhaps it's >*a* computer but not the i-drive computer controlling them? In any >case, it's an inappropriate use of technology which is proving to be >a problem. Hmmm... this article too: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100530/categories/microsoft/ "Gary Conley, a retired executive in Silicon Valley, is now driving his second BMW 745i. But it's not because the first one worked that well. His first car had so many problems that BMW bought it back last July. This buy-back followed a worldwide recall in May of 15,000 7-series cars... The Korea Times cited a software bug in the electronic management unit of the vehicle's fuel pump that could make the engine stall. BMW spokesman Gordon Keil says certain cars stalled if the fuel tank was below 1/3, although this was not a problem that Conley ever reported. " Conley says his second car works better than his first one. For example, when it creeps along the road, it does not automatically brake without using the brake lights, as the first one was prone to do. But it still has intermittent problems that BMW can't reproduce or fix. The voice activation system sometimes fails, the transmission slips, the phone may fail to power up, and the iDrive settings have spontaneously disappeared and switched to metric units." Bob

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