When the day arrives when the answer is driver-less cars and the Tories claim to be helping the least well off in society then something has gone rather wrong. If anyone could mistake what Cameron and chums are doing for the worst-off as beneficial social reform then I suggest an appointment with an appropriate adult. And so this is my one-sided take-home from the Queen’s speech, not having heard it.
Driver-less cars appear to be a great thing, who wouldn't want to be driven home from the pub by one because you’re too pissed to take out the other two driver-less cars parked outside your own house.
The car, the single most environmentally unfriendly and polluting object a person could own (and you can quote me on that as it is almost certainly a fact), is an abomination. A colossal piece of useless metal, plastic and corrosive liquid. Sitting doing nothing except depreciating for almost every hour of every day, mostly only used to fetch some compost from the garden centre or to pick up some milk from the corner shop as “it’s raining so I went in the car.” - apart from on the few occasions when it isn't...
Back in the 18th century (the 1960’s actually) when I was growing up, on the half mile long street where I lived there was one car, a single, solitary car. Barely anyone could afford one. That street has long gone, as no doubt has that car, but if the street still existed there wouldn't be space between the cars parked along its length to slide a garage receipt between the back to back bumpers. And if the car still exists it will be worth bugger all, only slightly more than the landfill it probably occupies.
When the sea level rises due to climate change all that will be left will be a rusting mountain of vehicles from where the humans desperately tried to park higher and higher as the water rose. All driver-less. Such is our love or the motor vehicle, we are happy to let the planet go to ruin rather than give up our little metal gods.
Here’s some soy sauce. Drink up, the world’s about to end.
Driver-less cars appear to be a great thing, who wouldn't want to be driven home from the pub by one because you’re too pissed to take out the other two driver-less cars parked outside your own house.
The car, the single most environmentally unfriendly and polluting object a person could own (and you can quote me on that as it is almost certainly a fact), is an abomination. A colossal piece of useless metal, plastic and corrosive liquid. Sitting doing nothing except depreciating for almost every hour of every day, mostly only used to fetch some compost from the garden centre or to pick up some milk from the corner shop as “it’s raining so I went in the car.” - apart from on the few occasions when it isn't...
Back in the 18th century (the 1960’s actually) when I was growing up, on the half mile long street where I lived there was one car, a single, solitary car. Barely anyone could afford one. That street has long gone, as no doubt has that car, but if the street still existed there wouldn't be space between the cars parked along its length to slide a garage receipt between the back to back bumpers. And if the car still exists it will be worth bugger all, only slightly more than the landfill it probably occupies.
When the sea level rises due to climate change all that will be left will be a rusting mountain of vehicles from where the humans desperately tried to park higher and higher as the water rose. All driver-less. Such is our love or the motor vehicle, we are happy to let the planet go to ruin rather than give up our little metal gods.
Here’s some soy sauce. Drink up, the world’s about to end.
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