Rant: Current car commercials

ThoriumHotdog

The worst drivers I see are the texters.. I'd rather have some tweaked out meth addict or some coke snorting douche in traffic than a stupid teenybopper texting messages.

WarmAndSCSI

I'd rather have any of the above than ANY teenager driving on the same roads as I. I haven't been exposed to how poorly this age group drives until recently, but it's just horrendous. I have no idea why they let some people drive to begin with. It ought to be an even more exclusive "privilege."

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shadoquad

We all had to start somewhere, though.

Texters are a huge problem, BUT, the real problem is that people don't pay attention to the road. It's been an issue since well before MMS. Road maps, lipstick, hamburgers, coffee, laptops, passengers...

MD legislation is in order right now that states that holding a phone to your ear while driving is against the law. However, it's ok to use a wireless head set. What this has effectively done is drive the market up for bluetooth headsets while doing nothing to fix the problem. Whether you hold the phone to your ear, talk over bluetooth, or hold a conversation with the passengers sitting next to and behind you, it doesn't f*cking matter. The problem is that you should be focused on the road. So the State of MD officially endorses spending excess money on a bluetooth gismo that you don't f*cking need, while the accident rate stays the same.

ThoriumHotdog

Yes. An intelligence test for all drivers would be nice. All others can have nanny-mobiles without steering wheels.

Then there are the really really old ladies behind the wheel of a car and they can barely see over the dash. Now, that sounds like a cliche but I was almost killed by one in a pristine Cadillac. Perhaps a annual driving test should be required for the elderly.

WarmAndSCSI

Yes and yes.

Problem is, we live in a Politically Correct society and people start yelling at you as though you're the next Hitler every time you mention something that excludes people who are less intelligent or less enabled.

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Jeffblue

yea seriously, we need to stop the suffering of women.

shadoquad

But what can we expect from a society that cannot control it's own drunk driving problem?

nuTinmuch

The thing I think a lot of the people are missing in this thread (tbh I only read the last few pages) is that the large majority of people consider driving a huge chore.

Most of my friends who are not big into cars don't care what they drive as long as it is "safe" and gets them from point A to B. If given the choice, they would probably automate the entire process in a heartbeat.

The "nannies" that we are seeing are just a result of that. I don't really think anyone is realistically going into a car with a "lane departure warning" or a "holy **** you're tired" thing and thinking that they are perfectly safe. I think most people jump for these things because it makes them think their car is "safer."

What we really need to do is completely model ourselves after Finland in that department. Until kids learn to power slide during driving class, we aren't doing it right.

Godwin aide, that's because exclusion can quickly become a dangerous game.

As long as we live in a society that glorifies drinking (and to some cases, drinking and driving), this will continue.

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