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vsmith I love your post. Especially the part about Inoculating children with DVD video players in teh back seat. That took me back to my child hood. Road trips to Strasburg RR near Lancaster PA from Baltimore were all day affairs. Us three kids packed in a small import without airconditioning made do rather well. When the sun got too hot we would deploy a horse blanket. Drank lots of water and as long as dad kept moving we had really good air flow. Drank lemons at midday and lots of sprite. (No pepsi or Coke as caffine worsens the situation) People will deploy whatever vehicles they want to. The inattention to the driving is kind of not worth arguing about here in this thread. However I will understand that when used properly Onramps and off ramps do not give problems to traffic. I have spent years making allowances for other people's mistakes. Not anymore. Any lane is a travel lane, they will either need to speed up or slow down to merge. I hear you loud and clear on the SUV sales with GM. I suspect that Hybrid technology will make it possible for us to have vehicles that are roomy and rather safe.. but still get 30-40 miles to the gallon. When Toyota released the first Hybrid that looked like it did not have any back wheels.. I seriously considered replacing my cars with that one model as you can take it downtown everyday and park it anywhere you want to. More importantly you got like 600 miles on what was 15.00 worth of gas and still had the air conditioning and radio. I have seen prototype designs for a in-line ceramic engine that is really nothing more than a 1500 pound turbine that burns fuel and drives a generator powering electro motive engines under the tandems of a 18 wheeler semi. This design was forecast to generate almost 30 miles to the gallon in Class 8 Vehicles grossing 80,000 pounds at 50 mph. I was very excited, but back then it was 1996 and the attitude was that they will NEVER see that design on the american highway because of the greed and lust of Uncle Sam for desiel fuel taxes that we happily pay as long as we never break the 10 mpg barrier. I have had the privelidge of driving some of the most advanced vehicles using desiel and have achieved close to 9.0 Mpg in some areas of the United States. Imagine going from 9 MPG to 30 the fuel costs savings alone is in the thousands per month.
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