Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful, creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field.
For some people, driving has become a bit of a challenge. Blame it on Toyota or multi-tasking failures everywhere, but we now hear daily about too many people killing themselves or others in an attempt to get from Point A to Point B.
Oprah Winfrey and overzealous legislators want to change all that. While there is always room for common-sense legislation, regulation and Queen Oprah’s intervention, most improvements regarding our vehicles and driving laws require people to smarten up.
1. Treat your speeding car like a horny 20-year-old – downshift into neutral and don’t close your eyes.
I haven’t heard the term “unintended acceleration” since college. These days, the phenomenon has less to do with drunk frat boys and more to do with Toyota’s faulty engineering.
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2010.