dr_lizardo

Ash nazg durbatuluk

It struck me that it might be a good idea to have this printed as a courtesy warning on credit cards. That little piece of plastic can give you magical powers, but if you give in to the temptation to use it, the person who made it owns your soul.

I noticed that trucking school has implanted itself pretty firmly in my mind when I caught myself referring to car drivers as "four wheelers". I got to thinking that car drivers who are really inconsiderate and dangerous ought to be required to ride motorcycles for a while so as to burn into their brains just what it means to others on the road when they drive as unsafely as they do.

Actually over in italy they have a far better vehicular system in many ways. If it has less than four wheel you don't need a license, and people drive a lot of scooters and bikes and three wheled vehicles. Something that would be quite workable, thought socially and politically impossible to achieve, would be to place poor drivers under a 250cc restriction, meaning that they could operate vehicles with no greater engine displacement than that. As it is nowadays the're this wrestling match you go through, if you drive drunk for example, where they threaten you and fine you until they ultimately just take your license away and you can only then operate a 49cc moped. On the other hand, if there were a 250cc restriction that the courts could impose on you if you fuck up more easily than they can take your license nowadays, it would improve the safety of roads as people would be real careful to avoid getting put under that restriction, and people under it would be in small vehicles that don't have the damge causing potential of heavier full size vehicles. It wouldn't prevent people from getting to work; most 250cc bikes can do 85-100mph. Small enclosed vehicles could be made as well, and if they were too slow to go on the highway, well too fucking bad, you should have thought of that when you were driving recklessly/drunk/being a major asshole or whatever.

Think anybody's going to listen to Dr Lizardo? Naaaah.