HEY! The rest is garbage, but camping in the left lane should be a capital crime.

Well, a bit, in that the risk of death is likely less due to the glacial speeds, but that’s not to say hypermiling in traffic is really safe, either. A car going 25 mph in a place where everyone else is going 45 or more can be a huge problem that can lead to wrecks.

I mean, the point is still valid because the second-highest viewership in Netflix isn’t anything like the second-highest viewership in primetime in 1980. But the bigger point is, who cares as long as they’re funny?

Do you think that most people outside of the comedy movie nerd scene knew who Buck Henry was in 1975?

Yep. SNL is a sketch comedy show. It should be graded on how good a sketch comedy show it is.

Thank you!

Firsthand experience, this will change your life. Not very much, but definitely for the better.

Agreed. Nothing except an aircraft D-check would have caught this.

How ‘bout setting up a Cosmos watch party first? “You see, Carl Sagan is the nicest, smartest person who ever lived, and we believe in god exactly the same amount.”

Also, a watch-through of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy BBC TV series. If you’re feeling saltier.

Yes, but you can still test whether we’re training people better by looking at the reduction in the drunk driving death rate versus the reduction in the overall vehicular death rate. Still shows progress.

Carapult?

More like the automotive equivalent of playing Russian roulette with a full clip.

And yet... drunk driving deaths have fallen precipitously in the decades since it became socially unacceptable and the laws were changed - down over 50% since 1982 despite more than doubling vehicle miles traveled. Certainly we aren’t there yet, and progress seems to have stalled in recent years, but it’s not like we…

Maintenance nightmare, I would think. Those things are constantly at least partially broken, and that's in parking lots. They're just not built to take constant high-speed traffic.

Exactly - those are called four-quadrant gates because, well, they block all four quadrants of the crossing.

Of course there are.

Yes. In my cold heart, I say keep the train moving and clean it up later. It's not like the people in the car are going to get better.

Indeed. They also have better-maintained roads and four-quadrant crossing gates.

And our terrible driving license standards.

That sounds like blaming the victim to me... We should immediately limit all train speeds to 15 MPH #15isenough #visionzero #pleasepleaserecognizesarcasm