Now we know why you have to drive so fast for your “emergency transports”. You waste precious time before you even start. Are your eyes brown?
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Not a topic for this forum, but I am curious about the facilities that require regular use of emergency transport of blood. Unless a mass casualty situation, most hospitals (I have worked in Federal, “non-profit, and for-profit hospitals). haven’t seen a need for emergency transport since the 80s when only whole blood was kept in inventory.
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Hate it when I arrive home and the wet wash cloth sticks to the light bar.
Fortunately takes only a minute to wipe the light bar and headlights while thengine is warming.
Usually I arrive athe blood center just before the product is ready to go.
Yesterdayvas a mass casualty incident. (Do not nowhat it was.)
Hospital personnel decide if the transport is emergent. Otherwise they call scheduled couriers.
Yes. RX350
The skillet is under the metal oil sump.
Bed sheet draped over the hood and in front to retain warmth.
The plastic shield ends forward of the oil pan.
Just called for a statransport.
You want more proof that RG is a Troll ? He says he got called for an emergency blood transport but he still has time to post and use that irritating spelling that he thinks is clever .
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Many of us have done things with our cars that are similar to what Robert Gift has been posting.
Years of past threads here show lots of evidence of hacks many of us have done. Not all were safe. Some quite unsafe.
We did it for various reasons including:
- it was done by necessity because money was tight,
- or because it was timely where fixes were needed asap,
- or perhaps most important, it was due to the personal satisfaction of seeing our creative thinking work.
Even though money is not as tight now as it was years ago, I still to this day will resort to creative hacks to keep a vehicle going. I may pay a little more attention to safety now, but I still love the reward that comes from seeing my personal creativity responsible for a fix that works well. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Robert: Be conscious of safety, but keep it up.
Yet I assume both of you have no issue with throttle by wire, which caused a lot of issues with a software glitch in Toyotas where it would get stuck at high throttle. Or the auto pilot on Teslas. Or ABS which could technically crash your car through software. Or push button start where you can’t always turn off the engine. Or parking a car on a hill using the parking brake, where it could roll away at fairly high speed if the brake failed. Or cars that are made to do the minimum required for a crash test, that have load limiters on car seat belts that are only strong enough to protect a 175 pound dummy crashing only one time at 38 miles per hour with a working airbag.
You think someone is going to climb in the car and push down on the throttle?
What about people who put pizza boxes on their gas stove with the gas vales in the front? Then the dog comes and turns on the flame while trying to get the pizza.
Do not fly, aircraft have been using fly by wire for a long time:
All “fly-by-wire” flight control systems eliminate the complexity, the fragility and the weight of the mechanical circuit of the hydromechanical or electromechanical flight control systems — each being replaced with electronic circuits. The control mechanisms in the cockpit now operate signal transducers, which in turn generate the appropriate electronic commands. These are next processed by an electronic controller—either an analog one, or (more modernly) a digital one. Aircraft and spacecraftautopilots are now part of the electronic controller.
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Didn’t happen. Here’s what happened:
Both causes were mechanical, not electrical/software.
We always used the highway patrol for critical deliveries. Those guys love to turn the lights on and speed cross country to break up the routine.
Yup!
And, the misplaced floormat scenario led to a standard part of every maintenance interval for Toyota and Lexus vehicles: Verify that floormats are properly secured.
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Vehicles have been drive by wire for years.
A .000001% chance. Sorry, but you haven’t a clue.
What vehicle can’t you turn off with push button start?
I use parking brake AND putting it in gear (manual tranny) or drive (automatic tranny) all the time. What idiot just uses the parking brake to hold a vehicle on a hill?
That’s WRONG. Seatbelts are designed to withstand a sudden jolt of 1,000lbs. They may use a 175lb dummy for testing, but that doesn’t mean the seatbelt won’t hold a lot more.
You really haven’t a clue do you?
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PLEASE not the seatbelts again. 
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There!
I fixed it for you.
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Did you ever get your hydraulic brakes converted to mechanical?
That one was a different misinformed forum member, IIRC.
Might be the same person under a different name!
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Another stupid thing to do no matter where the valves are or even if you don’t have a dog.
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