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After looking at this picture, I always see this black chord being plugged into the racecar after practice, qualifying, what is this black cord for? To get all the date from the car?
Then I saw this picture, Are they making sure that he can look to rearview mirrors?
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
That cable is what the engineer uses to connect the car to his laptop, to download data and upload programming.
The FIA rules mandate that the mirrors have to provide sufficient vision to the rear to satisfy an FIA tech inspector. Of course, they also are carefully adjusted to make the driver happy. Additionally, there may be a camera in that location, it it too has to be properly aimed.
