I Hate Driving

I hate it. Give me wings and a runway at every location, or just a helicopter, and I'll just fly places. Driving sucks.

First of all, there is no certainty. Everyone does their own thing and there is no protection from Air Traffic Control. You just have to assume that everyone is competant and knows what they are doing. Recently, I was doing a lane change (I HATE LANE CHANGES!!!!). I checked my mirrors and looked over my shoulder. And I nearly collided with a car I did not see. This incident wasn't really anyone's fault that I can tell, but there is a lack of certainty when ever I make a lane change. What if somehow I can't see the car? In a traffic pattern in the air, the ATC would ensure that I am not too close to another aircraft. On the ground, I do not have this protection.

Also, on the ground, since cars come close to each other, especially on interstates (I hate interstates too) , you have to worry about the other guy's competence. At least in the air, you know, the guy had to take several intensive lessons, an intensive examination and an intensive checkride. I live north of Massachusetts. Massachusetts. The state with the worst drivers in America. You've got morons who cut you off, tailgate, speed too fast, drive too slow and really should have their liscense revoked.

Give me my flying car already so I can just get over these guys.

"And what do you do with a radical? Shoot it? No, its not a hippy from the sixties . . ." Prof. Rock in Calculus

J Kuhl Signing Off