While I'm banging on about cars and that, I think there should be a law that dictates a drivers eyes should be a certain level above the steering wheel.

I can't even remember the last time I was out driving and wasn't nearly run off the road by one of the old blue rinse brigade... absolute nightmares.

They drive extremely safely. And by safely I mean they change lanes without looking, merge onto freeways at around 60kmph slower than traffic, fail to give way at round abouts, spend 15 minutes unnecessarily giving way on intersections and generally causing havoc on the roads.

And while they pot along in the right hand lane at 20km's per hour below the speed limit, holding up traffic and blissfully unaware of the 3km traffic jam behind them, they peer out the tiny space between the top of the dashboard and the bottom of the steering wheel. Not that it matters though, they are obviously more concerned with what outfit they will wear to their funeral than being co-operative road users.

But if there were police out there, policing the roads between the retirement villages and the bowling greens and rotary clubs, ticketing the old brigade for wearing beige and not being able to see over their steering wheels, the roads wouldn't be congested and jammed up like a gunk filled sinus cavity. There would be less accidents caused by old people merging dangerously without looking... there would be more traffic movement through roundabouts...

...oh the world would be a safer place.