Originally Posted by donnamb
Heck yeah I think we should have grislier PSAs about dangerous driving. It's not like we aren't constantly exposed to violent images if we watch TV. Maybe it'll get through to more people that way.
The sad thing is most violent images are being watched voluntarily... as one tunes into the latest adventure of "CSI" or any of the other crime dramas so graphically illustrated on TV.
Meanwhile the show is brought to you by some auto agency featuring all the wonder and spender of "the ultimate driving machine" that goes "zoom zoom" while it is "Designed to improve your performance." But that's OK because "It's how the smooth take the rough."
Nowhere are we ever exposed to the reality of day to day traffic, bumper to bumper driving and the results of inattention that the GPS, the Cell phone, the DVD player and a bag of french fries can actually bring. Heck even on the TV show you are watching, rarely if ever does the hero have to face bumper to bumper traffic. When was the last time you saw a chase scene that had to stop due to the typical congestion in most cities? Yeah. Reality.
Perhaps it is time for the American public to be shown the ugly truth of the auto... the junk yards heaped with decades of rusting metal, and the lives lost at a rate that far exceeds that of all the wars the US has fought thus far. (about 45000 lives lost annually).
Opps never mind... here comes another shiney new car ad... "Like nothing else on Earth." Thank you... 'cause at 8 miles to the gallon... You get the idea... I hope.