He tolerated this for a while, but eventually he leaned forward and pressed the Stop button on the tape recorder.
Mr Parrington said there was no emergency stop button on the line, Miss Nield was unable to save herself, and it could easily have been a fatality.
Brawn opted for a three-stop strategy for Button and Barrichello at the Nurburgring, but the Brazilian's race was disrupted by a problem with the fuel hose during his second stop.
So I had to go into "Configure" menu ("Configure" button, next to Stop).
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Barrichello was fifth, a three-stop strategy not working out for Button's team-mate, ahead of the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, Glock and Fernando Alonso's Renault.
The temptation is to just keep tapping the button a dozen times, but since it's one button to start and stop you run the risk of turning it on and then back off again.
The camera is always ready to shoot video with its dedicated movie button to start and stop recording HD video instantly and uses the full range of optical zoom when recording, without sacrificing HD resolution.
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That released Vettel, who had a 10.5-second lead over Button when the Brawn emerged from its pit stop.
Barrichello had also led that race going into the first corner, but lost out to Button, who was switched to a two-stop strategy.
With only three laps before his own stop, Vettel had nowhere near enough time to try to erode Button's advantage.
Webber, who battled with Button for more than half the race in Valencia, could finish only ninth as the Red Bulls struggled to find any pace on the stop-start street circuit and is now 20.5 points behind Button.
"Additionally, a malfunctioning stop lamp switch may also result in intermittent operation of the push-button start feature, affect the operation of the brake-transmission shift interlock feature, preventing the shifter from being moved out of the park position and cause the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) malfunction light to illuminate, " stated NHTSA documents.
That ensured Button was able to emerge in the lead after the first pit stop period and thereby extend his advantage sufficiently to win the race.
Mr Walker said he and his daughter got to stop the traffic and shut the gates of the bridge before they pressed the button to raise the bascules and waved the vessel through.
The clock typically doesn't start or stop on travel time between the station and a fire until someone in the truck pushes a button.
Mercedes-Benz, for example, has programmed cars to stop and go into Park when the door is opened, no matter whether the driver has correctly engaged the Park button used on certain shifter stalks.
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