Joyanna Adams

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REMEMBER: Most of us do NOT have perfect Vision…Elon Musk’s Driverless cars will save lives


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Every morning, I would watch out my kitchen window, and watch old Mrs. Estep backing out her car, and I would say out loud:  “She going to hit it! She’s going to hit it again!? Wait! Go left, Go RIGHT! ahh…oh, NO! Mrs. Estep…LOOK OUT!!

She hit it again. Her mail box. Crunch. Poor thing. It was only about the 6th time she had backed into it, and her family took away her license, and her car. They knew it was time.

Next time it might be a kid.

She lived next door, and by herself, her husband having died many years ago. The car was the only freedom she had left in this world. And she was furious about it. She was 85. I could see her point, and tried to imagine MY future prison (YOU CAN”T GO ANYWHERE sentence.

“They shouldn’t have done it!” she would say every morning while we were out watering our flowers.

On the other hand, I had another lady friend, 96-year-old, MS Cloe, who never wore glasses, and still had almost perfect vision. Better than mine.

She drove herself everywhere.

Old age hits everyone differently. We have a demented President Biden who is 82 coming up, and President Trump, 78, who will be running against each other in the next Presidential election.

Clearly, Trump still has his mental faculty intact, but Biden lost his somewhere on a desert island where his dad was eaten by cannibals. Or was it his uncle? I don’t remember. (LOL) They should have not even LET him near the nuclear buttons. Clearly, they are just rolling him out for speeches now, and rolling him back into his soft but expensive White House cage.

The point here is, there are 55 million people over the age of 65 in the United States. Not all of them have great eyesight or can even drive very well…And who knows how many illegals even KNOW how to drive and are on our highways?

And let’s not just pick on the old: Millions of people who drive have vision problems.

Like me. I had a lazy eye as a kid. They made me wear a pirate patch over my lazy eye and I had to wear it in school. Did it fix the eye? No. To this day, I have stigmatism in both eyes, one eye is far-sighted, one eye is near-sighted, and so I wear glasses when I drive. But my dept perception is pretty bad. I haven’t hit a mailbox yet, but I slow down when I have to go around a car.

The other night, I had to drive, for the first time, my husband’s sports car.  So, I was backing it in past the house, and my lazy eye was not helping. Even with glasses. I must have backed up at least 6 times to make sure I didn’t hit the house.

And please, point out to me anyone who hasn’t had trouble parallel parking.

They did fix that problem in some of the newer cars. The newer cars have screens…to help you back up.
NEWSFLASH: Not everyone HAS a newer car.

I also had trouble backing up. I had learned to look over my shoulder to back up, which was fine when I was 16. But now, I couldn’t see up over the seat. And it hurt to jam my shoulder and twist just to see behind me.

Then it dawned on me: SO THAT’s it. That Elon Musk, he sure is a genius.
 
He tells us if we don’t go to other planets, sooner or later the human race will not survive. He’s right about that.
Pity. The only thing aliens will see is old reruns of I Love Lucy. Or Bonanza. Or even the Senile Ed Sullivan. And when they see our video games, they will want to invade us for sure. We will be exterminated by some alien who watched Diablo on his intergalactic TV.

As much as most of were against Electric cars, I think it’s time we rethink this…

It’s not just to save us all from running out of oil, and polluting the planet…no, it’s actually to save lives. Because Newsflash morons:

MOST OF US do NOT HAVE 20/20 vision. Elon’s camera’s and computers will see much better than any human.

Not to mention all the distraction we have now: cell phones, talking, looking down at your coffee, trying to find the right radio channel or favorite song, trying to pick up the soda from McDonalds you spilled, or the kids fighting in the backseat. And CD’s …you have to push a lot of buttons. And when you’re going 60, and have to look at a screen, a split second can mean life or death.

Add in we now have less cops, bigger potholes, and people from other countries who want to drive like they do in Kenya’s favorite cities. We are talking millions of lives being injured or killed.

Elon doesn’t mention this of course, but you bet he knows. And like a good father, he is gently but firmly pushing his children into safety of a driverless car.

His engineers will someday have a car that drives itself. Or a taxi that will come pick you up, and if you are me, and cuss at everybody riding your bumper going 65 mph, you will LOVE not having to get behind the wheel.

This will take time of course, But Elon has it all figured out. He has future radar embedded in his brain, and it just comes to him. How long did it take for ME to have this brain fart? LOL. Trying to miss my garage. TOOK me long enough.

He truly not only wants to have the best cars, his Cybertrucks will be almost invincible in the next global war.

Cops will want one. Cartels will want one. Black gang leaders will want one. Politicians will CERTAINLY want one. And the average guy going out to his boat to fish will want one to pull it.

Heck , I would want one. Just to lie in the back and look at the stars. (That’s still my dream.)

So, once again, the man who sees eons into the future, whether we like it or not, really has our best interests in his heart.

We ARE going to need to change the whole transportation system, with more electric, and better roads. He’s right.

Sure, there are a lot of problems with not being able to find a station to charge. And it takes longer, but I’m sure Elon and his teams will always improve every single problem, even if one at a time. If we didn’t have regulations and politicians always putting our money into the rest of the world, these problems woudl probably already be taken care of.

So, If I was on Elon’s team, I’d suggest they might start reminding people of how much safer an electric car will be in the future, BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE NEED TO THINK ABOUT…your eyes.

Nobody is thinking about how, as humans, we make a LOT of mistakes, and not with our eyes.

Colorblindness too…Elon will probably solve that with Nero link.

Just think about it…Elon again, sees the future road, and the rest of us are just like children, trying to hold onto our cuddly Teddy Bears and what we know.

We are like children in many ways.
Sometimes, father Elon does know best. And I hope I live to ride in one, because I’m sure the back seats are going to be simply as comfortable as your own bed.

Nobody’s Perfect: But I suggest we can leave the driving to…Elon.

He’s about as perfect as fixing humanities problems as they come.

And yes, this always happens when progress goes faster than the normal human brain can figure out.

Now, please take my cell phone. I think it’s talking to me.
 
 
 
 

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