Flutterby™! : Nanny 2013-06-07 13:53:41.746169+00

Nanny

2013-06-07 13:53:41.746169+00 by meuon 4 comments

No Phone While Driving - the Nanny State attempts to further enable stupid people.

While (most of the time) I hand off my phone or ignore it when driving, I tend to fear the idiots I see while driving. I see enough cars in "slow wavering distracted mode" that when I zip by them to get out of their impending disaster zone, see a phone in their hand...

I get torn on this, and I feel that the real solution is: Many people should not be driving. It's not a right, it's a responsibility to wield a solid mass with deadly inertia in public places.

The accident rate continues to decline, but the real solution appears to be getting the human the hell out of the driving loop. The headline calls it: "distracted driving". There's always something that can get the driver's attention, targeting one tiny bit of that space is stupid.

I still think the way to make driving much safer for everyone is to attach a 6" sharp spike to the steering column. People will pay a lot more attention to what they're doing. And if not, the idiots will get culled soon enough.

Sammy Davis Jr has been proposed to me as the counter-example to that. And, heck, for most of the '50s and '60s, the design of steering wheel columns was essentially that...

Western Canadian provinces have "Distracted Driving Laws" - saw lots of signs about them on my trip that didn't make it to Alaska. Might be interesting to see what they've implemented...