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History Forum / General / British History / December 2007Automobile Roadside Assistance
We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all our cars. They are very fast, competent, efficient and not unreasonably priced. They have excellent maps too -- for the cognoscienti who prefer good maps to generally inadequate GPS systems... As well as discounts at motels, et al. Expanding acronyms on first use in a thread is just common sense. So EVERYONE knows what they are. Of course there are always cunniculan-pygan little pogues and poguettes without the law who think it gives them a feeling of power and omniscience if THEY know what an acronym stands for and others don't. So, they constantly throw acronyms around. Amusing... DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Deus Vult Good... RAC is better than AA? "Royal" no less... We probably have folks here who belong to both. What's the expansion on the German ADAC? DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas > RAC Royal Automobile club > http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/guestarea/home.asp [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > D. Spencer Hines wrote: >> Expand the acronyms. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >>>>>> days anyway, unless the 'Young Gentleman' (or his father) was a full >>>>>> member :-) >>>>> Rubbish. Father-in-law was with the RAC and his bus-driver father >>>>> never owned a car. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> I find Britannia Rescue turns up well within the advertized 40 minutes, >>> does the job and goes away. > We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all > our cars. > > They are very fast, competent, efficient and not unreasonably priced. In these parts the AAA contractors are overwhelmed and over- booked...they're the freebie towing and jump service after all, so they arrive at the speed of a spavined snail. However, the motor club is "fast, competent [and] efficient" at expense re- imbursement for those who "go outside the AAA network".... and "completely refunded" is a very reasonable price in my world. :-) > They have excellent maps too -- for the cognoscienti who prefer good maps to > generally inadequate GPS systems... I have to admit, their "TripTix" (do they still have them?) were a godsend back in the days of overly youthful navigators. Deirdre Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote: >We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all >our cars. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >So, they constantly throw acronyms around. Diddums feeling left out then? magnorum periculorum metus ex ostentis portenditur >Amusing... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Deus Vult  SignatureBryn My wife has ruined my 'elf! I think she sat on him.. >We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all >our cars. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Expanding acronyms on first use in a thread is just common sense. OK. So what's a "GPS system"? >So EVERYONE knows what they are. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >DSH What's a "DSH"? SignatureWCdnE >>We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all >>our cars. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >What's a "DSH"? DSH (like AAA and GPS) is an abbreviation, not an acronym (Pogue Hines can't be expected to know the difference). It stands for: Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook [of Mental Disorders] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders #301.81 is the one you are looking for. You would know this if you had read my widely advertised book. Ilya Sonobavich Yugotanastikov > We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all > our cars. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > They have excellent maps too -- for the cognoscienti who prefer good maps to > generally inadequate GPS systems... A waste of money for people who can afford reliable vehicles and aren't constantly running out of gas. They're probably like the NRA - non-stop spam and and junk mail - all of it for overpriced junk and bogus insurance policies. No... DSH On Dec 27, 9:41 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote: > We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for > all our cars. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to > generally inadequate GPS systems... A waste of money for people who can afford reliable vehicles and aren't constantly running out of gas. They're probably like the NRA - non-stop spam and and [sic] junk mail - all of it for overpriced junk and bogus insurance policies. > On Dec 27, 9:41 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > all > of it for overpriced junk and bogus insurance policies. I must agree..... Any organization which spends as much as AAA on mailing costs is selling "smooth cons" not service. I'm one of DSH's cognoscenti when it comes to maps, a collector of same, but find that in every state (and many large cities) I 've ever contacted (easily, by email), the tourist or transportation departments will mail you more than adequate maps, free. These days, fine commercial road atlases are commercially available for most states, and downloads of local area maps seem widely available. As for "generally inadequate" GPS systems, my "el cheapo" gifted example seems a step above adequate, far better'n a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. It's compact and fits in a corner of my carry-on, deployable in every remote corner of the US, motorized, afoot or in above ground public transport. As for subways, they've all convenient if occasionally misleading route diagrams in every station and on the wall of most cars. In recent memory, since 1989 at least, operating at least 3 vehicles during much of the time, I've had one "breakdown", a failed "chip" in an '89 LeSabre still in warranty. It happened coming out of a local restaurant one evening about 10PM. There was nothing AAA could have done but send a tow truck. Why pay for an unneeded service? The Buick dealer could send one by manana's early light. It's been at least 25 years since I've changed a tire, and that after a blowout on the highway, 1981 or so, South of Wolfe City, when one of the Uniroyals on a "company car" decided to do as Uniroyals of the time too often did, throw a tread... Worrying about "auto service" when away from home (or close to home) is one of those slightly paranoid symptoms which in other manifestations cause folks to buy cramped cars of inadequate performance and capacity to save $500 a year on gas. Save the money spent on auto club dues to piss away on entertainment, buy a big hulking comfortable vehicle capable of hauling off Aunt Delilah's antiques after her funeral (plus a few of the pallbearers), and write off the extra gasoline expense as part of the cost of comfort, convenience and safety to life and health on the inevitable day that some blivet accidentally rams you as you roll down the road. TMO >> On Dec 27, 9:41 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >misleading route diagrams in every station and on the wall of most cars. >. . . One accessory to the not very expensive pocket camera I recieved for Christmas is a GPS device. It writes where each picture is taken on the stick, the included display software shows where each was taken on a map. Click on the marker and up comes the picture. A great time-waster with possible practical uses teaching, debriefing and such-like. Peter Skelton Great Time Waster, Aye... DSH > One accessory to the not very expensive pocket camera I recieved > for Christmas is a GPS device. It writes where each picture is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Peter Skelton >There was nothing AAA could have done but send a tow > truck. Why pay for an unneeded service? Because those of us with younger drivers in the family feel better if we know the Recombinant DNA has the ability to call for roadside assistance. Deirdre Indeed... My wife and I pay a mere $120 a year for all the services of AAA and find it well-worth the cost in terms of potential time and effort plus the discounts available. DSH >>There was nothing AAA could have done but send a tow >> truck. Why pay for an unneeded service? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Deirdre > Indeed... > > My wife and I pay a mere $120 a year for all the services of AAA and find it > well-worth the cost in terms of potential time and effort plus the discounts > available. Put the money towards getting a reliable car with a working gas gauge... Totally irrelevant. DSH On Dec 28, 10:45 am, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote: > Indeed... > > My wife and I pay a mere $120 a year for all the services of AAA and find > it well-worth the cost in terms of potential time and effort plus the > discounts available. Put the money towards getting a reliable car with a working gas gauge... >As for "generally inadequate" GPS systems, my "el cheapo" gifted example >seems a step above adequate, far better'n a poke in the eye with a sharp >stick. It's compact and fits in a corner of my carry-on, deployable in >every remote corner of the US, motorized, afoot or in above ground public >transport. As for subways, they've all convenient if occasionally >misleading route diagrams in every station and on the wall of most cars. My mobile phone has a GPS system, that worked remarkably well after a wrong turn coming out of Bristol at 1630 recently. It's not as good as a proper satnav for vehicle use, but for helping a passenger find an alternative route it was a godsend. SignatureThe nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. -Thucydides paul<dot>j<dot>adam[at]googlemail{dot}.com > We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for > all our cars. I dropped AAA like a hot potato long ago when I realized they are a major advocate and lobbyist for more and more asphalt, traffic, and stinking exhaust. They work against my interests. > We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all > our cars. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > They have excellent maps too -- for the cognoscienti who prefer good maps to > generally inadequate GPS systems... Generally inadequate GPS systems? ??? Sometimes, Commander... A quality GPS system is so much more than a map. It works out detours at the touch of a button, give you the best route base on choice of shortest distance, shortest time, or maximizing freeway use, or using a series of by-points, giving precise distances and times for each option, as well as longitude and latitude for any point, a nice touch if you go out at night with a telescope running from light pollution. Can you zoom in and out with a map? From continent to city block with GPS. Can you find street numbers in a map, precisely? It's within 10 meter accuracy with GPS. Only someone who has never had a GPS system -- a non-cognoscienti -- would be caught writing "Generally inadequate GPS systems." Mr. HInes is in similar position here to those "famous" cognoscienti of the Brockton Gas Company who mocked Edison for suggesting the whole idea of incandescent electric lighting. > Expanding acronyms on first use in a thread is just common sense. > > So EVERYONE knows what they are. Abhorrent Avaloners Anonymous (AAA). Great Time Waster, Aye... Except for spies surveying the terrain. Or explorers, et alii. Puerile for Everyday Use... DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Exitus Acta Probat > One accessory to the not very expensive pocket camera I recieved [sic] > for Christmas is a GPS device. It writes where each picture is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Peter Skelton |
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