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Now I just need to get my Red Barchetta.

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What, so your brother's son can try and wreck it for you?

Now I just need to get my Red Barchetta.

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You and your friend might be interested in this story from by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road and Track. The story also served as the inspiration for the Rush song Red Barchetta. Given how a lot of people with their suburban assault vehicles currently drive it seems like it was a reasonable prediction.

You'd have to have something like that. I guess the age old method is just to limit it by cost through taxes. Of course, that has the appalling effect of ensuring that only the rich can do it, but then again, you don't see the guy making minimum wage at Jack-In-The-Box driving a hot rod, at least, not unless he's selling drugs on the side.

Also apropos: http://2112.net/xanadu/articles/a_nice_morning_drive.htm
Always loved that story.

From around the same time period, you'll also probably enjoy googling for "The Last Chase". Obscure 1981 B-movie, but it's one of those "so bad it's awesome" kind of vibes to it. The only thing they got wrong is that California turned out to be the source of the anti-car vibe, rather than being the last bastion of automotive culture in postapocalyptic America. But they got a lot of things pretty much dead-on. Aired once on Canadian TV, might have been available on VHS and laserdisc for a few months, and pretty much vanished into oblivion.

Y'know, tomorrow is Sunday. I think I shall go for a nice morning drive.

This is why I'm afraid of cars in the future. They'll have all these safety features, people will forget how to drive (even the little bit they know) and rely on the car, and things will go wrong.

Despite the extent of the safety program. it was essentially a good idea. But unforeseen complications had arisen. People became accustomed to cars which went undamaged in lO-mph collisions. They gave even less thought than before to the possibility of being injured in a crash. As a result, they tended to worry less about clearances and rights-of-way, so that the accident rate went up a steady six percent every year. But the damages and injuries actually decreased, so the government was happy, the insurance industry was happy and most of the car owners were happy.

from A Nice Morning Drive

We Rush fans have been preparing for this since 1981 (Ok, technically, we've been preparing for the Big Brother scenario since 1976).

Seriously though, I have a 1968 Ford Galaxie, and my daily driver is a 95 Honda. I only buy used cars (it's the value proposition). I wonder if they'll try to require some sort of retro-fitting on older cars. I'm not sure, but I think the massive steel body of the '68 may be a faraday cage anyway ;)

We Rush fans have been preparing for this since 1981 (Ok, technically, we've been preparing for the Big Brother scenario since 1976).

Seriously though, I have a 1968 Ford Galaxie, and my daily driver is a 95 Honda. I only buy used cars (it's the value proposition). I wonder if they'll try to require some sort of retro-fitting on older cars. I'm not sure, but I think the massive steel body of the '68 may be a faraday cage anyway ;)

Looks like Shake has already thought of this. Not that the house is any cleaner though...

Oh yeah... sorry Geddy's jet is in the way. Take off, eh?

It's a Shuttle launch, so... a Rush reference is always appropriate.

Hey with a pin and bubblegum he can build a Neil Peart sized drumset

this

Enjoy it - you've got 109 years until a guy with a guitar shows up and you're screwed...

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