12/16/2004

Reality TV + Better Traffic Flow

How about this for a new TV channel: The All-Traffic Incident Network. We'll call it CrashNet. Since people are obviously friggin enamored with looking at road side incidents--even when there is nothing to see people!--we can just televise them all. The idea behind this is that you will be able to satisfy your morbid curiosity 24 hours a day, in the comfort of your own home. The hopeful side effect of all this is that when there is a real altercation on the highway, no one will rubberneck and the traffic will flow better. Think about it - why drive slow and hold up everyone to get a quick one-second glance at the incident, when you can hurry home at 80mph and watch it up close on TV for as long as you want! Just try not to become tonight's main feature yourself. Most cop cars have video cams in them now anyway- we just have to get them hooked up to realtime reporting servers. We can also show 'The Best of' when things are slow. Plus there can be a couple of great weekly or special features such as: Holiday Tradegies, Multi-car Pile-ups, Trucks Gone Wild, and Who Put That on the Road?

I will be accepting offers from networks now. Have a good day.