What did you think about on the highway this morning?

Well… That way too many people talk on the phone while driving…. Not using those Star Trek bluetooth things either – I’m talking like one hand on the wheel and the other holding their damn headset to their yapping, distracted head.

Then I thought there probably really should be stricter laws to enforce handsfree use while driving.

Then I wondered how much longer till we have cars with autopilot…..

Then I figured when we do I wondered what kind of laws would have to be written to manage that.

Would some routes, like highways, be autopilot only?

Then I figured cars will need another light added to them… Sure it’ll seem wierd at first – but don’t you remember when 3rd brake lights came out? I do… they were only a novelty for a few years before they bcomeing ubiquitous.

So… these lights would signal the car is in auto-pilot… being driven by machine.

But what would the light be? I mean – what would it be to signal humans near by that a machine is in autonomous mode?

Would a new international symbol for “robot” have to be developed?

Assuming we’re just going to start seeing more and more automation in our everyday lives – you’d see the little icon all over the place… lighting up on your vaccum cleaner when you were using your iPhone to control it….

or maybe flashing on the automatic lawnmower…
garbage truck drones?
grocery cart fetchers?
and so on and so on and son on.

besides… the machines will need a symbol to rally under when they overthrow us.

Anyway… So then I started thinking what the hell that symbol would be…

It would have to be universal…

I kept coming back to 20th century science-fiction imagery.

that seemed like a cheep copout…

but then I pulled into the garage and parked.

yeah… so that was like the morning commute.

Anyone want to take a stab at that symbol though? I personally think this is a puzzle begging to be solved by minusbaby

wait.. wasn’t I bitching about peple talking on the phone while driving?

isn’t that as bad as people who wander off in odd chains of thought while driving?