Reducing road deaths

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  • Brian Ellis
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 9623

    #1

    Reducing road deaths

    A Swindon traffic engineer considers that most traffic accidents are due to inattention. He reckons that a sure-fire way of concentrating the mind on driving is to have a long sharp spike fixed to the centre of the steering wheel.
    Brian (the devil incarnate)
  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592

    #2
    Had considered a camera that measured the drivers blink rate. If the value went out of bounds electrodes in the steering wheel would deliver a jolt to wake him/her up
    Dr. Mordrid
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    • Brian Ellis
      Super MURCer
      • Sep 1999
      • 9623

      #3
      Originally posted by Dr Mordrid View Post
      Had considered a camera that measured the drivers blink rate. If the value went out of bounds electrodes in the steering wheel would deliver a jolt to wake him/her up
      Electrodes in the steering wheel would be useless, as one hand is holding the phone to the ear and the other is holding the cup of coffee. This morning, an idiot phoning at the wheel cut across my bows and I had to brake hard. My cornflakes with milk ruined my trousers and splashed across my newspaper propped on the wheel and I dropped my electric razor and it fell into the rest of the milk in my cornflakes bowl.
      Brian (the devil incarnate)

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      • Umfriend
        Crabby Smurf
        • Mar 2001
        • 7308

        #4
        That one made me laugh. Thx.
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