Every time we get in our car, I remind Eliot that his job is not just to drive but to watch out for others. I guess you can call me a backseat driver. In my estimation, I have good reason to be a nervous wreck when we go out for a drive. Driver distraction has increased dramatically thanks to texting. I have watched more and more cars weave in and out of lanes. It is so unnerving I beg Eliot to be extra careful.
I am all in favor of requiring automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets them warn each other which way they are going. That would be such a great relief for me. I spend all my time navigating and directing. Eliot hates it.
A radio beacon can be placed on each car to continually transmit a vehicle’s position, heading, speed, and other information. All automobiles would receive the same information from other vehicles. The car’s computer would alert the driver to an impending collision.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates vehicle-to-vehicle communications could prevent up to 80 percent of accidents.
I’m all for it.
DigiDame 
I think every car should be equipped with a sensor that SCREAMS when a driver picks up their cell phone. It should be so loud that they must put the phone down. I don’t know why people don’t take texting and talking while driving seriously? I guess they feel it will never happen to them. I know a man, and he’s not young, that has totaled 2 cars while driving and texting. He didn’t even have his license taken away and only a $250 fine. The last time, recently, he ran into a car with a family in it. Thank goodness no one was hurt.
I love you dearly Lois but you must be a “nightmare” in the car. I think it runs in the family…
I am worse than that. My eyeballs see everything closer. You have it easy.
FYI.. Did you know Eliot as the only boy my mother let me drive with?? And, I think all cars shoould be made out of negative ends of magnets, that way they will never crash!!! Love you
Your mother never saw Eliot drive, mr weave in and out of lanes and Tail gater