Left lane is for matching speed with right lane

Problem:

In my home town they recently (3-4 years ago) changed the speed limits on most of the major 4-lane roads to 40 mph from 35 . Driving on these roads might lead you to suspect that it was actually changed to 37. It doesn't matter so much that someone wants to go under the limit (when I would possibly want to go over) because there are two lanes, so they can just merge right and, if they so desire, flip me off as I go by them. (loudly as I, like most of my roommates in fact, haven't fixed my muffler) However, as the title might suggest, there is some sort of ideology that suggests that both lanes are for going slow.

Maybe that girl whose cell phone conversation is hindering her already inadequate driving skills is worth staring at, and so the driver of the suburban in front of me with the 19" rims can't drag his eyes off of her, or his car in front of her.

Maybe grandma doesn't quite feel comfortable with that whole slower-traffic-keep-right thing.

Maybe the guy in front of me saw a cop a few miles back and has permanently lowered his speed, "Just in case."

Whatever the case is, the left lane is for faster cars people.

Solution:

I don't expect people to ever become better drivers. Since this isn't going to happen, we'll just need to change the rules for the rest of us. To start with, let us pass in the suicide lane. Or maybe just raise the speed limits to 43. After all, that wouldn't result in anybody going over 40 anyway.

Round-A-Bouts NEED to be Two Lanes

Problem:

People don't know how to drive. It is a fact.

Every time a new round-a-bout is installed in my town, cars collide in horrible ways. Either people don't know how to merge, or they decide to randomly go the wrong way around the circle, it doesn't matter. Small round-a-bouts hurt my chances to safe passage.

Solution:

Every round-a-bout needs to be two lanes, so I can dodge people.

Traffic lights

Problem:

I hate traffic lights. I often will drive on side streets and brave school buses, children waiting for said busses, stop signs, and old people driving just to avoid turning left at that light that I hate so much. Roundabouts and 4-way stops remove them, and they could be a better solution but for the idiots who get confused and destroy any efficiency that they otherwise might create.

Solution:

Require localizers in every car. Apparently the internet doesn't know what a localizer means (at least, what I think it means) so I can't find a definition. Oh wait. Don't worry that they come from science fiction, to the extent that I need them, they're totally possible today. They're totally possible five years ago too, but who cares. So a localizer is a transmitter that will broadcast some information at all times that the car is moving. "Here I am." "Here I am." "Here I am." That's all that they need to say at first. Eventually they, like every other standard and technology, will become more sophisticated and they can say more.

A small, cheap, computer can read the information that they're sending and from that, determine where other cars are, and what they are doing. How does this remove the need for traffic lights? If you always know where other cars are, you can make this computer eliminate car accidents. If you don't have accidents, you don't have to stop at intersections cause it will be impossible for you to hit another vehicle. Eventually you'd reduce the need for a driver at all.

This solution has the detriment that it won't be effective for a decade or so after it starts, but every year that goes by without this requirement causes that much more time before it can be useful. Bush already failed me. Now that we have a democrat who owns the car companies, this should be even easier. This is big government man! C'mon!

Send a Contact From My Phone

Problem:

I was watching Paul talk to a friend on the phone. His friend needed a phone number, which caused Paul to juggle the phone's menu and a conversation at the same time.

Jumping back and forth from the contact in your phone to the person you are talking to is awkward. Everybody has had this experience. Somebody should fix it.

If you call Goog-411 (which I recommend), you can have them text you the phone number (and address) you are looking for. The technology is already there. People just need to connect the dots.

Solution:

Cell Phone's should do four things (things that they can ALREADY do):

1. Switch to speaker phone automatically if you are using the menu's and are on a phone call.
2. Speak the selected phone number to the person you are talking to.
3. Text the selected phone number to the person you are talking to.
4. Connect the people together through a phone call (Google Voice Does This).

Implement this idea and make me happy.