Quote Originally Posted by sparq View Post
I wonder how much automatic transmissions influence those bad lazy driving habits? They require very little attention and no hand/brain/leg coordination.
I've wondered about that too. Compounded, maybe, by all these HUGE luxury SUVs that are basically living rooms on wheels, and now by GPS units so you don't really even have to pay much attention to where you're going. It seems to me that the more time Americans spend on the road, the less we want to be actual drivers.

... The cops are pretty useless too, I have never seen them giving tickets for anything but speeding and lane violations.
Amen to that. I don't even see them giving tickets for lane violations around here. There's one eight-mile stretch of four-lane road I often drive to work where, if you see a big truck or other slow-moving vehicle up ahead, the likelihood is about 95% that it's in the left lane. The state police could wipe out Illinois's budget deficit in a month just by hanging out there and writing tickets.

~Rich