Good link. Not many seem to find this issue significant. I'm amazed at the irony of selling booze and gasoline at the same outlet and then being surprised that so many people drink and drive.

So who was the rocket scientist who decided to sell alcohol products where people buy fuel for their cars?

It's chaotic!

And they've been predicting that everyone would have a flying car since the late 1940s. Hell, most people car barely control their non-flying car. And just imagine the fun a terrorist in a Cessna would have running into the "space elevator".

What does this theory say about the poor folks who live in places like Seattle and Portland? Are they all doomed to a dismal old age at age 45? This would mean I waited too long to move away. :P

Look at it like a toll road versus a freeway. You pay for the public roadways regardless of whether or not you choose to take the toll road. If you take the free roads to work you may forego certain benefits but at least you're getting something for your money. If you take the toll road you pay extra for whatever benefits you feel you get. Either way, it's your choice. Would you advocate a refund of the money paid out in taxes for the miles you traveled on the toll road? If so, expect lots more traffic on the toll road.

Well... in all fairness I had already left my smart-ass comment. :)

Wonderful story. It's life-transforming for almost everyone who gets the surgery; certainly it was for me. I was mid-50s when I had the surgery. My mother had gone blind from cataracts in the 1960s so I knew it would happen but I was unprepared for the impact it would make. I could swim, kayak and ski without worrying about glasses fogging. And lights at night were pinpoints.

Happy for your father and for you. :)

But I did get X-ray vision... it's not as good as you'd think. For one thing, I'm never going in to the senior center ever again!!!

And give it a bogus default gateway.

You'll be surprised what you can find in the major markets. Seattle, for instance, often has lots of jobs asking for some experience with Linux.

I hate to disabuse you but my experience with low-competence speeders is that they often tailgate (trying to make the person in front move over) and also often ignore a free lane apparently under the impression that "slower traffic move right" means "slower than ME") and they single-mindedly seem to insist that everyone has to get out of their way.

But I have also, like you, seen drivers who seem to have a "comfort zone" a car-length behind and won't pass even when given a chance. Some have offered up the idea that staying close helps traffic by increasing the capacity of the highway system but I think that the constant braking required of drivers who follow too closely cancels this out.

My attitude is that it's an intelligence test and finding a way through traffic without slowing everyone else down is what produces a winner. I often hang back and let a few very-high-speed drivers go by to collect the cops; I'll follow them 1/2 mile behind. I use their sudden application of brake lights to tell me when their radar detectors have gone off. :)

One of the leading causes of accidents is following too closely and a GPS will not measure that. If tailgating can be correlated to speeding (e.g.: people who speed also follow too closely) then I'd say there could be a good outcome from using this data. Otherwise, not so much...