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Indication of relative intelligence

What use are car indicators if you only use them after you've already started to turn? Is anyone blind in such a specific sense that they can't see a large metal object turning, but they can see a tiny light blinking?

The main thing they seem to indicate is the relative mental health of the driver, from "Excuse me but I'm about to turn, so please don't walk in front of or drive into the side of my car or someone might get hurt," to "Woah! I think I just turned! Wonder if I killed anyone?"

Then there's the attention-seeking "I think I might turn sometime in the next four or five minutes, but it's any guess as to exactly if, when or where I'm actually going to do it." These drivers may be the most unstable of them all and should be shot at with meat guns and bitten with attack wombs.

Using the indicator in this sense, I judge that at least 65% of current road users are either too stupid or too psychotic to be allowed to pilot big hunks of metal at 50-100 kilometers per hour.

Posted by pearce at July 21, 2006 5:19 PM