Playing with yourself

Now, now.  Clear your thoughts.    We all know that humans are competitive.    It’s the basis of our progress so far, make the most money, drive the fastest car, be first to climb a mountain, be seen with the hottest women.    Its the driving force behind most human achievements over the lifetime of our species.   Its also the one trait that socialists want to actual remove.   Weird huh?

Anyway, we also like to compete with ourselves.   Get a new high score on a game we are playing with ourselves, do an extra press up and, apparently, see if we can get our MPG, Miles per Gallon, average down to an absolute minimum.   Personally, I like the fastest I can get out of this bit of junk option but in our current society that is a no no except under strictly controlled conditions which plebs like me are excluded from.   So it seems we should try and compete in other ways.

The proposal here is that we should be using this in our technology in an attempt to encourage us to do the right thing.    So no recording of the vehicles top speed or its 0-100 time but a recording of the MPG over the last 100 miles instead.    Using our competitive streak to get our MPG to the maximum and benefit us all with lower emissions.   Sounds interesting but they will need to do a bit more on the marketing when they install it in the dashboard.

Personally,when I’m driving my Aston with Lucy Pinder sitting in my lap whispering sweet nothings in my ear I’m pretty confident I won’t be checking the MPG meter no matter how prominent it is on the dash as I’ll be tuning the batteries in my pacemaker instead.

On the other hand.   It’ll be interesting reading a defence in court that says I was trying to save the planet by maximising my MPG when I crashed because I actually didn’t bother to look outside the windscreen.   Although being realistic with today’s whingy whiney crowd I wouldn’t be surprised if this took off.   Couldn’t imagine it being a scoreboard on Top Gear though.   Highest MPG around the course.   The Stig shows you how.  Nah!  Just can’t see it.

I wonder what other things this could be used for besides that.     Most cabbage grown in a square foot, most carrots grown in a pot?

It does sound like it has potential for something but I’m struggling to think of anything and I’m normally so positive.