- You can measure the intensity of rainfall by the position your wipers need to be in to maintain visibility. Meteorologists should adopt this as a standard. They could say 'rain expected today, position 2 with occasional areas of position 3', and everybody would know exactly what they were talking about. Of course, all the automakers would have to calibrate their wiper speeds, but how hard is that?
- People from Indiana drive really slowly1
- Who invented the thought bubble? At what point did comic strip characters acquire an internal life? It's an enormous development with far-reaching implications, and I'm kind of ashamed to admit I have no idea who first came up with it.
- The iron law of 4-lane2 highways: for every vehicle driving X mph in the right lane (where X is 10 or more mph below the speed limit), there will be at least one vehicle trying to pass it at no more than X+5 mph.
- If Illyria fought Jasmine, who would win?
- On any highway of 6 or more lanes, the speed of any given car will always be a) faster than the car ahead of it, b) slower than the car behind it, and c) exactly the same speed as the car in the adjacent lane.
- It isn't just people from Indiana.
2I.e., 2 lanes in each direction.
[That's all, folks]
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