Sometimes we take on faith that an established part of our society is essential. Except other places do fine without them. School-related speed limits are one example. New Zealand authorities are reminding drivers that the speed limit passing a school bus is 12 mph. Why do we stop for school buses in America? Because we […]
345 Blog Posts From the John Carr Tag
Misplaced priorities
A young man from Maryland will plead guilty to manslaughter for killing three people by driving 115 mph towards an intersection where a car pulled out. He had a prior conviction for bad driving, but it was lost in a sea of hundreds of thousands of minor offenses. In Maryland, running a stop sign and […]
A misleading report
Health researchers stepping out of their field released a report saying Americans die twice as often in car crashes as residents of countries whose bureaucracies they envy. They say the causes are all the things regulators want to throw us in jail for. The real explanation is simpler and less amenable to handcuffs. We drive […]
The end of the age of interlocks
I used to write software for a machine with moving parts and high powered lasers inside. The designers made it turn off when the door was opened. They didn’t ask my software to please turn it off. Opening the door flipped a switch and cut off power. That was a mechanical interlock. It was a […]
A drop in the bucket
A series of stories is making the rounds saying Indiana police are enforcing the “slowpoke law” prohibiting left lane blocking. No, they aren’t. 100 tickets in a year statewide is not enforcement. My city writes more speeding tickets in a month. I expect Indiana police use the law like my police, for pretext stops and […]
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