Sunday, April 17, 2011

Blabber mouth cars

The rate at which technology is leapfrogging we’ll soon have smart cars that will report bad driving to the police. Johnny, my slightly squishy at the edges blue swift will have a lot to say. “She always overtakes from the wrong side, accelerates at the traffic signals when the lights are turning yellow and scrapes the road divider when making u turns….! Slap a hefty fine please!”
No more covering up accident involved cars with paint and dent jobs and passing them off to innocent customers. Cars will squeak up- hello- don’t trust this bugger. Three accidents, four door bash-ups, ten grazes and five bumper hits! And that will be the end of the deal. Detectives will read the memory of a suspect car for proof of crime and use it in court. It’ll be one car’s word against another human being’s. Cops might even trace the entire life of a car and all its travails by going into its ‘history’.
But hey, Indians are enterprising, if nothing else. We are great at finding short cuts and ‘fix it’ solutions to such problems. Like the homegrown MS office and refill ink cartridges that you can buy in Nehru Place we’ll crack this code too and come up with remotes to ‘silence’ these smart cars. Let the west comes up with new inventions, we’ll come up with new solutions. After any accident you’ll have folks pleading for an ‘erase memory’ job just like mechanics reset the mileage button and fake the usage of an old car. That’ll put an end to all car-smartness. Ok, want to blabber? Here you go….zzzzip!

2 comments:

Olivia said...

You have me in stitches now!

hugs xoxo

Olivia said...

You have me in stitches now!

hugs xoxo


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