As a combination of tyre issues, driving order and countdown clocks served up what everyone later agreed was an unholy mess, the pair were left with nothing to commentate on in the supposedly climactic final four minutes.
But then one Dingo laid out a thrown-together driving order and another gave an incredibly vague explanation of the chase car plan, and I started to worry.
When at age 87 she failed the driving exam ordered by her doctor (though nonbinding on motor vehicle authorities), talk no longer was an option.
Instead they make eye contact, size up other drivers' body language and even take into account what kind of car they are driving in order to gauge who has right of way, and who will yield.
Former footballer Dean Windass has been banned from driving and ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work after admitting being three times over the drink-drive limit when he crashed into a parked car.
Officials who wanted to make sure that trucks were driving safely ordered the state police to do spot checks on big rigs all over Connecticut — but without opening the weigh station in Greenwich, which many considered an oversight.
Indeed, building excitement in mainstream publications such as Nuts, Shortlist, the Sun and a dozen US and online equivalents is key to driving pre-orders of those big Christmas releases – and that is what E3 is about now.
Rich Americans are sending their chauffeurs to counterterrorism driving school, ordering security audits for their children's private schools, traveling on the Metroliner with armed bodyguards and hiring investigators to conduct background checks on their gardeners, nannies and cooks.
Such a car would require some degree of monitoring by a driver, but under the right conditions — say, highway driving — it would allow people to mostly disengage from the task of driving in order to read, check e-mail, or watch a movie.
But none of those existing established platforms is focusing on driving pre-orders for songs that haven't actually been finished yet.
