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Douchebag Driver Score

Don’t you just hate it when someone does something rude or aggressive to you on the highway? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could signal to other drivers, “Hey, that guy in the blue sedan is a real jerk!” With the right technology, I think that would be possible. I frequently muse about ways that technology could improve our lives. Obviously, one of the areas which could use some improvement is vehicle transportation. In many ways, technology has already made our daily commute much safer than ever in just the past few years. With features like automatic braking, lane departure alerts, and other such machine-assisted functions, drivers are probably more protected and assisted than ever before. It is nearly guaranteed that we will one day have fully self-driving vehicles. A coworker of mine recently took at 100+ mile trip, taking control of his Tesla exactly twice. To me, that’s magical. Still, we aren’t yet to the point where all vehicles can fully maneuver themselves, and I think that stat...