Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Life In The Vast Lane

Drivers Have Reached Their Cut-Off Point

You know the driver who just cut you off on the freeway? Shame him (or her) on a new website. According to a great story on
6abc.com, two Washington, DC men have created the website platewire.com, where people can post the licence (well, ``license'' if you're in the US) plates of bad drivers. Co-founder Mark Buckman, a north Virginia computer consultant, told The Washington Post he's outraged by careless, rude or inattentive drivers. He said they have hundreds of messages on the site from drivers venting their spleen. The messages have headings like ``Maniac'' and ``Jerk on the Phone''. The site, however, is not just for complaints. The introduction says: ``Report and flag bad drivers, award good drivers, and even flirt with cute drivers.''

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good site. My pet peeve is not fast drivers but those who stay parallel with another car while driving in the fast lane. So no one can overtake them and they have a whole line of cars trailing them. No dearth of them in the Northeast... :-) They're (deliberately) oblivious to flashing lights, or take offense to them. They're only a shade better than those who don't let vehicles in front of them change lanes.
-Sandip Madan

Fletch said...

Now, that's such a simple idea that I think I shall create a 'specific' Blog just to 'name-and-shame' Portuguese drivers who totally ignore pedestrians on Pedestrian Crossings. Quixoting it with officialdom hasn't produced any results so far!

Perhaps a dual-language 'parochial' Blog will achieve something. It took a similar, locally driven, initiative to reduce the death toll on the 'killing-fields' of the N-125 in the Algarve, so it may have a similar impact (ouch!) here in Lisbon.

Will keep you posted on the other side of the world!

david mcmahon said...

Hi Sandip,
You've been driving behind me - again!
Keep smiling
David

david mcmahon said...

Nice one, El Tel,
Like the `impact' line. Didn't happen just by, er, accident.
Go the Portuguese man-o-warn!
Cheers
David