Quick question: when you take your driving test, and you have to back into a parking space, is there a time limit on getting it done? It occurred to me while in an underground parking lot today that if someone is able to accomplish the feat but takes too long doing it, there should be condition on their Licence forbidding them to ever back into a space.
This concept has very limited application, probably. I can only think of one other immediately: maybe if you're always slow during your test, even if you're not TOO slow, you should have a condition of licence forbidding you to be in the fast lane. If we're really looking at ticketing people who go too slow in the fast lane, maybe we should make it so they don't get those tickets by not allowing them to be there in the first place.
My other brilliant thought here was that if we do go with tickets for slowpokes, they should call it the Goldilocks law. You can get a ticket for going too fast, and a ticket for going too slow, but you won't get one if you go ju-u-u-st the right speed.
Okay, one more thought: if we're going with all these forms of vehicular revenue generation, how long til black boxes that phone Big Brother are mandatory? You'd have it in your car, it would be aware of your location and of the posted limits for that location, and you'd just get your bill in the mail every month for all the speed-related infractions you'd committed. Kind of like how bridge tolling is done here for the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges.
Hmm...in Chem Trails mode, maybe all the increasing regulation and cost of driving a car is being driven by the Autonomous Car Cabal so that everyone would rather just throw up their hands and let a robot do it than walk the tight rope between legal and not legal every day. Yeah, that's it. I should find the website that discusses all this, it surely exists already...
My thoughts are even further along the line re backing into spots: WHY do people need to do that? Am I the last person left who knows how to back OUT of a spot without whacking into someone? We are "encouraged" to back into our parking spots at work, so in the morning I get to sit - often halfway into the street (very safe) waiting for a line of people in front of me attempting to back into their spots. Drive in, pull forward, back up, pull forward a bit again, back up, aaaaaand they're in. I drive into my spot.
ReplyDeleteI wondered about that, too. I was trying to imagine why the fast getaway is enough of a priority to risk, say, YOUR wrath. Going to finally pull that heist they've been planning for months? Today might be the day they throw their back out and can't twist around to see? Maybe backing out is SO daunting that backing in feels like putting that overtime you just did into the vacation bank, kind of like insurance. You never really take that vacation day but it's comforting just to know it's there. Or, maybe, in the Opposite universe, blogger Headxog is foaming on about why some people take forever backing out of their spaces after work and holding everybody up from getting home to dinner, and why don't they just back in when they arrive in the morning, is THAT so hard?
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