Running for Your Life: Hot Weather Mullings

What comes to mind during a long run (in July). Hot but not too humid.

See the Revel moped and consider this straight talk, shoutout.

Download and ride, all you need is a valid driver’s license.

Am struck by the idea when it comes to roadway rules and regulations, the paramountcy of capitalism, the advance of these ‘sharing” transportation businesses overrides the concerns of public safety.

Certainly that is the mark of the self-driving thrust.

Imagine a day when people take to their pedal bikes or mopeds and find themselves in danger of being in a collision with a “robot” car. What guilt, or compunction, does the robot “feel” for running into and killing a human aboard one of these unregulated contraptions ...

Could these developments will yield more rather than fewer traffic deaths? Isn’t it possible that the unemployed or underemployed person, chronically depressed and high on prescription drugs, will be aboard one of these downloadable, unregulated vehicles and when presented with the opportunity swing their rig in front of a fast-moving robot-controlled car, choosing this way – not a bridge leap or a gun or a pill overdose – to end it all, knowing full well that they won’t be leaving their vale of tears with any guilt feelings they may have had for the poor innocent soul driving on our highways today.

It would be a clear conscience way to go; remember the old wood burned shingle hanging in a family cottage back in the day: “Goodbye Cruel World” of a man standing inside a toilet throne, with his hand on the pull chain …

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