England has an amazing road system. Really. If I were to create a country named, um, nothing witty jumps to mind, I would model the road system after the English. Why? Because it works, and it works well. The English road system consists of clearly marked and well maintained roads, strict speed limits, and drivers who pay attention. Oh, one more thing, they have no stop signs in England. Intersections are mostly handled by round-abouts. Not the US version with strict lanes of travel as you drive around the circle. No, wide open round-abouts which leave drivers to work out their troubles and right of...

Recently bumped into an ABC report on the age of tires and how a brand new tire, max tread can actually be years old (due to the practice of retreading the tire for resale). From the report, it appears the US is one of only a handful of countries that don’t place expiration stamps upon their tires. The lobby responsible for this disinformation claims there is no need but most civilized countries around the world recognize the actual life of a tire is no more than six years. Not six years then slap on another tread. No, six years in total. Check out the clip here. Interesting stuff. When I took a...