Venture Chronicles points us to a story that hit (no pun intended) a few days ago about a recent demo of the new Mercedes S class:

The new Mercedes S class has a sophisticated radar-based braking system – when it works. A TV demonstration ended up in a 3-car pile-up when the S-class’ safety radar failed. (from Mercedes pile-up at safety demonstration)

This was definitely going through my mind when we demoed our product yesterday. I’ve done lots of demos. Sometimes they go great. Sometimes they are total disasters.

Our demo went great yesterday. Thanks to the hard work of everyone on our team over the last few weeks, we were really well prepared. We even slept in and did some shopping before the demo because we were ready to go.