[ The Chill Factor ]        [Previous entry: "Things You Can Only Say on Thanksgiving"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Old Skool Baby"]



11/23/2005 Entry: "Incivility on the Roads"

Here's an interesting Freakonomics piece that addresses our capacity for being complete assholes when put behind a steering wheel. Check out Levitt and Dubner's solution - something we could realistically implement. I have a more progressive (read: unrealistic) solution that addresses our individual perception of our own identities. Our cars should have LCD screens all around them with our mugshots on them - publishing our identities to the outside world. This way, our vehicles become true extensions of our 'selves' (instead of masks) and should fall in line with our moral accountability of our actions against our vision of 'self'. Huh?

Replies: 1 Comment

that was a good piece. I think it could work. However, totally off the subject, I have a problem with traffic cops who stand in an intersection with a functioning light thinking they are actually moving traffic along. They always seem to add to the congestion making everyone more miserable. Everyone knows that green mean go and red means stop. I don't need some dickhead keeping me stopped at a green light. Then when they actually wave my car through, they act like they did me a favor. I also love when 8 lanes of traffic converge into 2 lanes (ie after the toll booths at the Holland Tunnel into nyc)

Posted by tim @ 11/23/2005 04:45 PM EST