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Eliminate the danger of psychopathic tailgaters and banshee-doppler-effect overtakers.
Station a big hovercraft, wide enough to take up the whole road, every 30 or 40 miles along each motorway. When the bad weather comes down, launch the hovercraft fleet and control traffic speed.
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and blowing the shit out of everything? |
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Yeah, if that floats your boat. I suppose we could position cops with shotguns on the roof. ;-) |
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Not quite what I meant, hovercrafts have thrust propellers. |
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Why a hovercraft (other than that they're cool)? Why not, say, a police car (as often used now for this purpose)? |
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I think [skinfla-[freerunner]'s got a point there [thud]. Your Mother Duck will be blowing all the bad weather into the traffic. I love the image of a 3-lane-wide hovercraft cruising down a motorway, but it just ain't working. |
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I knew, freerunner - apologies for my flippancy. Is the blowing really such a problem, though? Why can't it be an added "keep your distance" thing? |
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angel, what I have in mind is a full stop to speeding, rather than a deterrent. Even maniacs can't overtake a wide hovercraft. They'll just have to sit and deal with their blood pressure. |
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O/T Hey, this place is really cool, isn't it? |
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//this place is really cool, isn't it?// |
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The thermostat's broken in this oven, baby. |
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What's to stop a car from just driving underneath the hovercraft? What if there were roadworks in one of the lanes? Why not just make the driving test harder and more frequent so that only people who are able to drive inteligently are allowed to? |
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Yeah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me pigpen? C’mon. |
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Belfry:
(a) physics/self preservation;
(b) good point - let's station 2-lane-wide hovercrafts wherever there are roadworks; and
(c) not in my remit. |
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etherman: your issues are not my issues. |
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po: that's a big ten-four good buddy. |
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sorry thud for trying to enforce an abstract and irrelevant subject matter like the US presidency on you. I didn't realise we had bakers from Pluto. |
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the more I read this, the more I like it. I think they should be camouflaged as big waddling ducks though. |
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...or some kind of science fiction alien 'Blob'. |
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etherman, I refer you to my profile page. |
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[thud] read the prof.pg. I love you.... |
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[hint... use your profile page to tell us a bit about who you are, instead] |
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Why, thank you dentworth. And david, I have followed your advice. |
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So that's where you? [tsuka] went, gone, back, etc, etc.. |
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