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2007-08-15

Cars are flock animals

Cars are like birds. Or fish. They move in tight flocks, maneuvering in harmonic unison. Each car following tightly the movements of the whole flock: When the flock turns, each car turns; when the flock stops, each car stops. - Right? How else could cars run just a couple of meters apart at over 100 km/h?


What the birds and fish can easily do, the cars can not do. So they collide when something unexpected happens. Causing death, injury and damage. Yet each driver has agreed to play by common rules when receiving their driver's license. But on the road the promises are forgotten, and this strange flock behavior is assumed.

And even though the drivers are clearly breaking their license conditions, the police does nothing: in Finland it is quite acceptable to threaten, kill, injure and damage, if you do it with your vehicle.

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