I've often thought of a snow plow-type blade on front of car to roll them up
and over and off to side.
BTW, leaving Lowe's yesterday, 'met a fairly new Buick driven/occupied by a
true/real codger. Before he got to driveway into parking area, I could
already tell that he was going to turn too early; 'even said aloud to
myself, "He's gonna turn across end of that median." Shonuff, both
right-hand wheels right up over the curb; rear one through middle of plants.
Driver never hesitated; never looked back. I still don't think he has any
idea what he did. --And license examiners are concerned about MY driving -
where the Hell was license examiner when that codger renewed his license?
Examiners and many people see me using the walker and seem to think I'm
blind, deaf, dumb, stupid, ignorant, helpless and incompetent. When I
renewed license 5 years ago, examiner saw the walker and asked, "Why are you
using the walker?" I replied, "I have trouble standing and walking safely,
NOT sitting and driving." Examiner gruffly went on, "Well, I'll hafta go
for a drive with you." "OK, that's fine," I said. At car ('87 300D), I
said to examiner, "You need to run the seat back some - switch right there
on the door." He ran it back some and got in (well, squeezed his very
rotund-and-uniform-busting self in, anyway), and said, "Ok, let's go." I
said, "Your door is not fully closed and latched." He closed door, "OK, he
grunted." I said, "Your seat belt?" He fumbled for it, "Where is it?" I
pointed, "On the post there by your right shoulder." He finally got it on.
I backed out. As we approached street, examiner said, "Take a right." I
knew that would take us out onto VERY busy and fast 4-lane, divided street.
I certainly didn't mind driving wherever he wanted, but I really didn't
think he wanted to do driving test out there. I asked, "Right, turn?" "Oh,
no, I meant left turn," he grunted. After that, whenever he'd give a
direction, I'd reply, "Understand left turn, right turn," etc., aviation
checklist style. 'Didn't want him saying he had said one thing and I did
another, etc.
Renewal coming up again in week or so. 'Probably hafta go for 'nother
drive, and that's Ok; Helluva lot of others need to be taken for a drive by
the examiners, too.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bennell" <rbenn...@bennell.ca>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Google's robot cars pass driving test
Back to the original subject.
It occurs to me that it might be a great idea if all new immigrants were
required to have a car that was operated without their input.
I am almost run off the road daily by people who have no idea whatsoever
how to drive.
On my way back to the office after lunch, an asian woman in a Jeep Patriot
zoomed up past me and changed lanes into the spot between me and the
vehicle ahead. If I had not braked fairly hard, I would have run into her.
She either did not know how to change lanes or really did not give a
proverbial you know what about me or my vehicle.
My first thought was, to swap the F150 Supercrew for and F350 Crew and get
a heavy duty front bumper and bull-bar so that the next one can be punted
into another time zone.
Randy
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