“Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We’ve all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing – they’re *flashing* and they’re *beeping*. I can’t stand it anymore! They’re *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn’t somebody pull the plug!”
Often forgotten in annals of automotive history is a brief collaboration in the 1960s between Ford and BMW to design the future of automotive entertainment and climate control interfaces. Although the two companies went their separate ways it is now agreed this was the foundation of SYNC/MyTouch and iDrive.
As this stop-action photo reveals, the capstone of the after-hours practical joking within GM engineering was the gun that shot toasted marshmallows with tracers at unsuspecting test subjects.
Funny, but that’s how I initially saw the scene: a stop-motion Matrix-look-a-like bullet-time, but with marshmallows! I guess I’m really tired and need to sleep.
In GM’s first design for a nuclear-powered vehicle, the control rods were inserted into the core manually by the operator. This idea was abandoned after the prototype suffered a meltdown during focus group testing.
Remember Nancy, if you get the sequence right you win the Grand Prix. But, if you’re wrong.. Little Jimmy gets 10,000 volts.
Ten seconds Nancy..
Sort of the original GM Hot Button contest?
Mr, DeLorean had a special test secretaries were required to pass before he would consider them for employment……
I bet this is a lot of fun on a dirt road.
Bernice thinks the new MyFordTouch feature is going to be a huge hit.
I think the interior designers came from designing pipe organs.
Or, this is the nightmare BMW interior designers dreamed of that compels them to come up with I-drive.
It’s the long awaited Apple iCar with an early (and ultra-crude) multitouch user interface to boot!
She’s a Foosball wizard
There has got to be a twist.
A Foosball wizard,
S’got such a supple wrist.
Laurens Hammond’s expertise in making organs sadly did not help his next venture, where he realized a draw-bar operated car was merely a pipe dream.
You pulled out all the stops.
so many knobs, so little time.
“Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We’ve all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing – they’re *flashing* and they’re *beeping*. I can’t stand it anymore! They’re *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn’t somebody pull the plug!”
Where can I find a piece of metal?
In space?
At this hour?
Often forgotten in annals of automotive history is a brief collaboration in the 1960s between Ford and BMW to design the future of automotive entertainment and climate control interfaces. Although the two companies went their separate ways it is now agreed this was the foundation of SYNC/MyTouch and iDrive.
… or when the idea of onboard entertainment meant a foosball table on the hood.
As this stop-action photo reveals, the capstone of the after-hours practical joking within GM engineering was the gun that shot toasted marshmallows with tracers at unsuspecting test subjects.
Funny, but that’s how I initially saw the scene: a stop-motion Matrix-look-a-like bullet-time, but with marshmallows! I guess I’m really tired and need to sleep.
You guys are too funny. Extra credit for JPC’s marshmallows – weird how the picture flips when you look at it that way.
Here’s the ’69 ad the photo came from.
“Hey guys! If you’re so hell-bent on having a bunch of small airbags, have you ever considered putting some of them on the SIDES?”
Or, “Despite her mother’s advice, Joan was beginning to question if this career choice was the ticket to meeting handsome young engineers.”
Early attempts at a practical 21-speed transmission proved daunting for the drivers selected to test it.
In GM’s first design for a nuclear-powered vehicle, the control rods were inserted into the core manually by the operator. This idea was abandoned after the prototype suffered a meltdown during focus group testing.
To encourage safer driving behavior, the NHTSA considered mandating that all dashboard controls be replaced with long spikes.
Reminds me of the valve panel on a structure type fire engine. Not on the dashboard, and the operators don’t tend to be so cute…
Looks like the Matrix, Reloaded. It turns out, she’s The One.