Yes.. I Did Just See That

Don't be surprised by what you may see while driving down the road here in Florida. Today? It was a Hummer with a complete snow plow mounted on the front. It was a strange enough sight that I had to pull over to allow the Hummer to pass so I could look at the license plate and see where they are from, Florida. Now I think the Hummer only gets 4-5 miles per gallon so what could be better than adding a thousand pounds of useless steel to the front of your car? Maybe they could just throw out and anchor and pull that around behind them. Well, I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune the next time it snows here in Florida and I can't get out of my driveway.

Technology, Please Save Me

So, I suggested in an earlier post that perhaps there was a way to take advantage of the large gaps in traffic created by people who were texting while driving. My friends, the odds are against us. The sheer number of people texting while driving is more than we can handle. I'm starting to think that I might be the only person left who is actually driving the car while driving the car. Now I have a new suggestion. Embedding sensors into the lines on the roads to create texting lanes. You can only text while in the curb lane. The left lane is for driving only, all other uses of this lane are strictly prohibited and electronically enforced. No further action is required on your part.

Simple Solutions

It's so simple, yet so hard to do. Letting people merge. We are so afraid to let someone get in front of us that we would rather sit in a mile long queue than make room for the person who is brave enough to drive all the way to the traffic obstruction before getting over. They're right! The way they are doing it minimizes the obstruction. A car accident or broken down vehicle should take up about fifty feet of roadway. When we start getting out of the blocked lane too early we are just extending the fifty foot obstruction to ??? Miles? I have had the personal experience of a longgggg... line of cars in one lane and nothing in the other. So I got into the empty lane and drove by almost a mile and a half  of stopped/stop and go traffic before moving over to travel over a single lane bridge. Be brave. Take the empty lane and drive until you can drive no further. If the first couple of cars won't let you in you'll still be far ahead of where you would have been if you had joined the herd at the end of the line. And, you will have done all of us a favor by moving traffic ahead just that much faster.