Re: Is America waiting for the automatic bike?

Mar 02, 2011 1 Replies



>>> Sober up. The price of gas has nothing to do with the FACT that we
>>> encourage blind & dead people to drive.
>>
>> Really? Maybe in New York (and possibly Chicago, where they also >> encourage
>> the dead to vote), they encourage blind and dead people to drive, but >> here
>> in California, this sort of thing is frowned upon.
>
> Didn't some 90 year-old guy plow down 30+ people in an L.A. marketplace a
> few years back, killing a few? He suffered from peripheral neuropathy,
> and thought his foot was on the brake.
>
> I'd say California is hardly clean in this problem.
>

He wasn't dead or blind. He can't drive, that is clear. But he not dead or blind, he's just stupid.


Joe is stupid, but they let him drive.


A few years ago here, an elderly woman hit two girls who were standing on a curb. Luckily, the girls' injuries weren't serious. A school bus driver witnessed the incident and got the driver's plate number. When they tracked her down, her explanation was "I thought I'd hit a couple of trash cans, or I wouldn't have driven away."

That's my definition of blind, whether you like it or not. There are millions of drivers like her.

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