It's a rainy day today, you can tell by the fact that the cars are crashing into one another. I passed the aftermath of three accidents this morning on the way to work, all rear end shunts. Work it out for yourselves. People spend tens of thousands of pounds on cars which are equipped with the very latest safety features. Air bags, ABS, bull bars (you never know when you might hit a bull in Surrey), crumple zones, shatterproof glass, a thing for your coffee cup, something to rest your balls on whilst driving (oops, that's golf). They spend hundreds of pounds on satellite navigation systems, radar detectors, radios that switch to the traffic report five minutes after you joined the end of the tailback. Here's an "open source" safety feature, free to all neveratossBlog readers who can count two second in their heads. First, put your phone down, then when the vehicle in front passes a landmark, lamp post, bridge, cow pat, speed limits sign (a round sign with a large number on it), count two seconds. If you pass the landmark before you have counted two seconds, you're too close. This is a self adjusting safety feature, it works at all speeds and it's free. When it's raining it's a little bit harder, count to four. It might even save your life one rainy day, like today.
Oh, and a message from my colleague Simon. Don't drive through puddles and soak him on his way from the station!
