Jul 31, 2004 02:00
You know what the automotive industry needs? Well, since you can't answer that question i'll tell you what: they need to get their hands on bumper car technology. I know we have it, we've had it for decades, centuries perhaps, ever since some egyptian guy decided to put rubber on his chariot and ram it into his friends. And yet, the legitimate transportation industry has ignored this goldmine of safety and enjoyment. Ralph Nader would pop a safety-boner if he found out that cars now harmlessly bounced off one another when impacting at high speeds. Why, the rate of vehicle-related deaths would plunge to 12% of what they are now, and those would only be the teenagers-making-out-in-a-car-and-getting-hacked-to-death scenarios that rubber would simply not be unable to prevent. Of course, that's not to say we couldn't find some kind of clear rubber alloy to replace car windows that axes would merely bounce off of, but that may prevent something like the jaws of life from breaking in and saving someone who's trapped in their car. I GOT IT! we'll make the rubber resistant to anything but lasers, because who's going to have lasers but the government and their affiliated employees, except for aliens, but if aliens want in your car you're screwed anyway. Of course, that's far in future, what we have now is rubber cars, not rubber windows, but that's certainly good enough, i think. I mean, i'm thinking realistically here, the worst that could happen is your car goes flying for a while like a bouncie ball, but to be honest with you, i'd rather bounce like a bouncie ball that like a two-ton hunk of steel. that's just me. so if any of you people happen to be automotive moguls, drop me a line, we'll do some bidness, steal some rubber. It won't be easy at first, until the bumper car copyright runs out we'll have to duct-tape rubber galoshes to the bumper of an '86 chevrolet celebrity and have at it with a basketball goal for testing, but we can make this work. The world will be a better place for it, like nuclear power or silly putty.