Saturday, December 6, 2008

What's your SQ?

Have you ever been frustrated with the sheer lunacy of other drivers on the freeway? At the GNU Public Dictatorship we've been working a solution. We're not naive enough to suppose that it will solve all of the problems, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.

Our solution builds on the idea of metering, but takes it a step further. In metering, traffic entering the freeway via an on ramp is artificially choked at the on ramp to prevent backups on the highway itself. This "choking" is generally accomplished by means of a light which allows vehicles to enter the freeway at predefined intervals. Rather than choking based on time our system will choke the flow based on the driver's Stupidity Quotient (SQ). A central database of SQ scores and drivers' licenses will be maintained, and drivers' licenses will have embedded RFID chips. Gates at on ramps will open only for RFIDs associated with drivers with low enough SQ scores.

We believe our system will work better than metering as it controls the quality of the traffic as opposed to the quantity of the traffic. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not dedicated to improving your lives!

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