AaronM Jenkins

They are popular. Over 40,000 different people have taken over 86,000 trips since January 11. All passengers are logged in a data base. Anyone may do it. So far only two can do it. The permissions and TOS allow it. AnnMarie is a scripter, not a builder. If you think they are ugly, send her a pretty one to use. A dinosaur would be great. Her script is far from perfect but those that criticize have no idea what is involved. She is up to version 1839 after 4 years work and constantly improving it. If they crash on your land, call her. She is very responsive and will diagnose the problem so it doesn't repeat. Just returning them removes the symptom, not the cause. There is no script available to remove vehicles that get stuck on no-script land. Suggestions have been made to solve the problem but its unlikely the Lindens have someone to work on it. AnnMarie says 25% of her vehicles have already been modified to morph automatically into boats or railroad cars as needed however the Lindens have stated they do not regulate appearance of builds, vehicles or otherwise. Roadside land gets a premium price and the roads have abundant roadside advertising. Advertising is located there for visibility to traffic. 80,000 passengers of "unmanned" vehicles provide the majority of that traffic. Many criticize her using resources that everyone pays for and for personal gain. AnnMarie spends over $US 300 a month to provide the vehicles. Tips and script sales bring in about $US8 per month.

LMAO, where did you see "100 vehicles"? I understand there is a "Cloning" bug that occasionally will replicate 20 or 30 duplicates but most of them rapidly dissipate. That is an SL bug, hardly AnnMarie's fault. How are they griefing you? My experience is AnnMarie responds promptly to problems and makes corrections if they are running off the road. But griefing implies intent and she obviously has no intent to grief. Occasional accidents due to lag and communications problems are part of everyday life in SL. Lindens did not promise to remove them. "Vehicles are back"?? They never left. "Attacking People"? If you block public access and "play on the freeway" you should keep an eye open for traffic. "Contain over 10 scripts." So what, Avatar clothes can contain 10 times that number but the mono script loading problem has been corrected. "Drain Resources"? They cause negligible load, I've watched a nearly empty sim with time dilation at 99.9. The vehile enterd and time dilation dropped to 99.2 for one or two seconds and then went back to 99.9. "Totally Useless". At last report she said there had been over 75,000 passengers since January. The average number of rides is about 2 with hundreds riding multiple times. What a great introduction to the magnitude of SL for noobies. She gets AR violations and gets suspended like all residents but just because she is off line, the vehicles are able to continue, they are not suspended. In fact problems cannot be corrected until the suspension is over. To violate the TOS you have to show the violation was intentional, not the result of accidental lag or bugs. Intentional griefing would have to be a case of repeating violations after being warned or suspended. She told me that she has had 3 suspensions and warnings for encroachment but they serve no useful purpose. She says that there is not much she can do if the land owner doesn't contact here becuse the Lindens won't reveal the location. All she can do is access the data base of crashes and check repetitive trouble spots for problems. I've known AnnMarie for 2 years and I believe her contribution and dedication to be just what the roads were meant for.