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Thursday 14 February 2019

Dopey mothers



We’ve been doing the morning school run for quite a few years now and that entails a car journey each morning to pick up the grandkids. During the journey we see lots of mothers taking their kids to school or nursery and cannot help noticing how casual a few of those mothers are when it comes to keeping an eye on little kids skipping around next to busy roads.

Some of it is the mobile phone addiction but not always. Often there seems to be a casual assumption that their kids will be okay because everyone else is keeping an eye on them and if not they damned well ought to be because I can’t watch them all the time can I and what you doing not looking out for little kids in the first place because that’s your job in your car just as much as mine innit?

I wonder how self-driving cars will cope with this phenomenon. Do their navigation algorithms have a “dopey mother” identification mode?

7 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Their numbers are decreasing all the time. Darwinism in action. Think of driverless cars as an introduced predator that will probably eliminate this sub-species.

Demetrius said...

Look where you are going is a phrase I recall from childhood. When more walked they had to. These days it is both weird and scary that so many do not know how to walk and even more know how to cross the road. Must go, time to wash the blood off the car.

James Higham said...

Mothers are certainly a mixed bag.

A K Haart said...

Sam - driverless cars as an introduced predator? That's a spooky thought. They could all be programmed to go on the rampage at the same time.

Demetrius - it's amazing how many don't look.

James - they certainly are.

Penseivat said...

Have you looked at the "Dublin" range? 40 shades of green!

Penseivat said...

Sorry. Wrong blog. Should have been on the one after it. Must stop smelling the paint thinners!

A K Haart said...

pen seive - if you hadn't mentioned it I probably wouldn't have noticed it's the wrong post! Is paint thinners still available in a world of water-based paint?