orange turns red and the car in front comes to a halt, but i am looking into the gps system. i realize i am too close for comfort to bring the car to stop without braking hard, so i am hard on the brakes and screeching on the highway, but we are still headed towards the stationary car in front, this calls for more evasive maneuvers. turning the car towards the right. we come to a halt just next to the stationary car.
relieved to have cut it close, just then the car backs up a little and the window is lowered. pointing towards the front of the car, the passenger says its open. a little baffled i understand that she meant that the bonnet was open. but how ? clearly a case of sabotage :). we had driven close to 250kms, with a lid open (thinking it was opened sometime in Berlin before we started) at speeds to 190km/h. so i guess it was not time yet :D.
even though i had a pleasant experience with the hertz rental people, i am little pissed off that they limited the speed of the ford mondeo to 190km/h. a shame that i could not fully use the German autobahn’s as i would have liked.
