They say cars tell a lot about their owners...
As I'm driving to LA today in the carpool lane, and realizing there are a lot more motorcycles on the road, it occurred to me...
Why not enforce the 'car size access' rule? Only allow access to class of cars in relation to the number of persons in them.
Let me explain.
If you are in a driver only vehicle, you shouldn't be driving an SUV on the freeway/highway. SUVs should have a minimum of three people in them, including the driver. A mid-size four-door sedan should have two. And small sized cars or two-door cars should be OK with just a driver.
There's no reason for anyone to own an SUV unless they have kids or have in-laws living with them.
You'd be exempt of course if you are a renegade radiologist who uses liposuction fat to power his SUV to work every day. (Check out #8)
And there's no explanation for people buying large cars if they are a family of one.
What would all this do?
Well, for one thing, we'd save a lot of gas; we'd also be able to see in front of us instead of staring at the back of a monster truck or an SUV large enough to house a Cambodian family (with apologies to Cambodia). We'd also have a little more breathing room between us and the car in the next lane to us. And we would engage people to think a little more before they buy that large vehicle.
It would also lessen the major reason why people don't buy smaller and more economical cars; they are afraid of getting involved in an accident with a minibus, even if its driver is a lady who's only four feet tall and needs a ladder to climb into the driver seat.
It's almost as if you're at Disneyland, and you're not tall enough to enjoy a ride.
And what's with people with DVDs in their vans, playing the latest porn flicks? There might be parents (of those kids 'acting' in the movies) nearby?
Speaking of porn, did you hear about the porn industry's $5B bailout request from the Federal Government? It turns out people are not buying as any DVDs as in prior years. They're just accessing them on the Internet for free instead.
And if you thought the auto layoffs would be huge (no pun intended) in the U.S.; wait until you realize the amount of people employed by the porn industry.
By the way, let's ban trucks, including pickups, from the highways during rush hour. It's not like the construction industry starts the day at 9AM. And any businessman driving a pickup wearing a suit and tie should be forced to drive in Texas, or drive local streets, where he'd be forced to stop at every red light and have the people in the car in the next lane point and laugh at him.
What do you think?
