{"id":252,"date":"2010-04-01T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:49:42","slug":"rating-april-fools-jokes-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/rating-april-fools-jokes-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating April Fools Jokes of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WAIL (1997) BMW<\/strong> announced a new feature for its automobiles that would cause animals to move out of the path of the car. Dubbed WAIL for &#8220;Wildlife, Acoustic, Information, Link,&#8221; the device emitted a high-pitched sound wave inaudible to human ears, but audible to animals. The sound wave sent animals scurrying away from the oncoming car, saving them from possible injury. In the ad a small hedgehog was shown running away from the road as a BMW 7 Series sweeped past. A related web site explained that it was no longer just Dr. Doolittle who communicated with animals.<\/p>\n<p>This one is not very funny but it does score points with me for believability &#8211; 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver\u2019s Weight Sensors (1989) BMW<\/strong> announced a new anti-theft device that would soon be available on its cars\u2014Driver&#8217;s Weight Sensors (DWS). The device would recognize the weight of the driver, and if a driver with a different weight attempted to start the car they would be greeted by gongs and flashing headlamps while a hidden radio signal contacted the police. Interested readers were instructed to contact Hugh Phelfrett at BMW.<br \/>\nNot only is this believable but it is actually kind of cool.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it would suck if your spouse was using it and you forgot to disable it but it would be a good backup for locked doors &#8211; 7.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAIL (1997) BMW announced a new feature for its automobiles that would cause animals to move out of the path of the car. Dubbed WAIL for &#8220;Wildlife, Acoustic, Information, Link,&#8221; the device emitted a high-pitched sound wave inaudible to human ears, but audible to animals. The sound wave sent animals scurrying away from the oncoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-and-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}