Aaggh!!! Seriously. Why do we have all these retarded laws about driving while on the phone / drunk / texting / old / young / applying makeup / asian / eating / fapping and who knows what else? We've already got the negligent driving laws that address the root issue anyways, but more importantly, where's the Automated Driver Assist Law of 2010?

You know, the law that mandates that by 2010 all new cars must be equipped with an autopilot feature (or, alternatively face a 20% higher tax to pay for roads and such) which will keep the car driving at the proper speed to avoid collision while staying in the proper lane, and alert the driver when the GPS indicates a turn or lane chance is necessary? The Jetsons told us all we'd be riding in flying cars by now, but I'd settle for cars that drive themselves. I'd get so much more done! It'd be like riding the bus, but without the annoying wait or smelly proletariats. Add some wi-fi swarming in there, and we'd all get better gas mileage with our file sharing.

We have the technology. We can do better. Write your representative today!

I did that once in high school... I think I actually made it AT school, for that matter.

Although I would usually just seed mayhem by giving the camera/tazer away, since McGuyver'd camera/tazers are difficult to retrieve from pockets without zapping oneself.

Thank God this was all before Virginia Tech, 9/11 and Columbine, when pranks weren't terroristic threats.

I'd be interested to see this proliferate through an existing social forum by initially reinforcing the group norms, and then see how quickly you could subvert them by tweaking the reputation algorithm.

If they keep this up, just imagine what the resulting post-apocalyptic future's archaeologists will think...

Centuries of research later, finding out that they weren't THAT advanced, they just had a thing for mecha. Seriously embarrassing.