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I’m a bit behind the times with this update, better late than never I guess. Anyway here is the latest from the ‘official’ Streetwarz site -

I would like to bring you up to date on the progress of Streetwarz. But first I would like to thank all of our clients and supporters for getting behind Streetwarz. We always set out to operate with the support of our local community, we have had more than 5,600 people of all ages through our gates supporting Streetwarz since we opened on the 25th of April 2009 to the 31st of May 2009 (including our support petition signing day on 24th of May 2009). We think because of the large community support we have achieved, shows there is a definite need for Streetwarz in our community.

 Last weekend we notified the Council and the residents in surrounding areas to Streetwarz and we engaged the services of acoustic engineers to conduct sound tests both at Streetwarz and the surrounding residential areas whilst the burnout pad was operating. We were very pleased to get the results back from the acoustic engineers which prove that Streetwarz has the potential to comply within the EPA sound guidelines on Business Drive, Narangba.

 However due to the continual complaints from some residents in the surrounding residential areas and the lack of support from Moreton Bay Regional Council towards Streetwarz and our concept, I feel that Business Drive, Narangba is not the ideal site for Streetwarz. Therefore I am going to close Business Drive, Narangba and relocate Streetwarz to a more suitable location, which will have the full support of the relevant local Council, Police and community, and who will all understand and support Streetwarz and our concept.

 We have already begun the process of identifying a more suitable site for Streetwarz and if you know of any properties that you think might be suitable, please let me know.

 We will keep you up to date and hopefully it won’t be to long before Streetwarz is up and running again.

 Thank you.

Stay tuned for further updates, with any luck a suitable venue will be secured soon and the events will be up and running again.

For info on what Streetwarz is all about see our ORIGINAL STREETWARZ POST.

An oldie but a goodie…

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated -

‘If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon’.

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating -

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash……..Twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single ‘This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation’ warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask ‘Are you sure?’ before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You’d have to press the ‘Start’ button to turn the engine off.