The baby's father, the shop owner, had apparently left the car door open and ignition on so he could light a fire indoors before bringing in the baby.
Some owners have come to dislike the feeling that their key fob could be floating just about anywhere in their vehicle instead of being able to count on its being anchored in an ignition slot on the steering column or dashboard.
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Stepping into his garage he opens the driver's door, sits inside, flicks on the ignition and listens as the four turbofans blast into life.
But when she turned off the ignition and turned it on again, and tried the starter with the choke out, the engine fired at once.
Flip on the ignition of a highly charged, tip-top, ready-to-roll Land Rover in Vienna and cruise in a convoy all the way to Hong Kong in an amazing driving adventure.
They include requiring brake override systems on all vehicles, standardizing keyless ignition systems and requiring event data recorders, or vehicle black boxes, on all new vehicles.
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Instead, they believed it was started by a small, "undetermined roadside ignition of grass and debris" on the edge of U.S. 101 near Thousand Oaks, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The device also comes with a new charging bike dock that turns it on or off with the ignition of the bike.
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The project has been drawn up to capitalise on another project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Both Otto cycle(spark ignition) and Diesel cycle engines(compression ignition) engines can be made to run on multiple fuels(petroleum, ethanol, natural gas) The cost is only nominally more than single fuel engines.
Features included a heads-up display with night vision, a DNA-based entry and ignition system, body panels that changed color on the driver's command and an "auto valet" feature that let the car drop off its owner then park itself for recharging.
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This year, instead of representing India, the Midas List includes one venture capitalist from outside the East or West Coast hotbeds of venture activity John Connors of Ignition Partners, who is based in Seattle but focuses on the Bay Area for investments.
Fast ignition also takes less powerful lasers, because the reaction rides on the energy contained in the pellet after the first pulse.
In response, Nascar mandated stronger seats, better seat belts and harnesses, and ignition kill switches, and completed the installation of expensive new barriers on the walls of its racetracks, which can absorb the force of a crash much better than concrete.
You put it in the ignition, you knew where it was, you put the key in your pocketbook, and life went on.
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