Your afternoon can go right in the crapper cause of someone else's fender bender.

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So I recently moved to an apartment in Jersey City with one of my Buddies.  Working full time as a game tester, there isn't a lot of things that I don't like about my job.  One thing, and I am sure any working man or woman who lives near NYC would agree about, is that you are not looking forward of the inevitable part of your day that looks like this:

Now let's face it.  There is not much more that can be done to limit the amount of traffic in certain area of the world realistically.  The reason that I emphasize the word "realistically" is that I know some people would be thinking, "Carpools and public transportation would fix the problem."  Unfortunately, even though this would fix a great deal of the congestion problem that highly populated areas would have, people are lazy and won't do it.  So are we damned forever with congestion?  In ten years is it going to take hours to get somewhere that takes us an hour now?  Probably.  For this to get fixed, certain drastic changes would have to be made.  This is one of the things I think about while I am stuck in traffic.

Of course, the thing that seems the coolest and that would work the best are new types of cars.  As I sit in traffic at rush hour, I would say that at least 80% of all the cars on the road only have one person in them.  There is so much wasted space on the highway that it is ridiculous.  Carpools don't really work most of the time.  What are the chances that you live close enough to someone that you work with that you would want to go out of your way to pick them up?  I would say that on average, people would not travel more that an extra ten minutes for a carpool.  So what can be done about it?  Nothing without some drastic change, and one of the ideas that I have with this is that everyone should buy thinner cars.  This means more lanes, and instantaneously get rid of a good deal of the traffic, at least for another 10 years or so.  After some research, I realized that there are cars that have been in development for the past few years that fit into this category.

It's pretty kickass in my opinion.  A two seater, styled like the cockpit of a fighter jet, and it's electric?  Sign me up for one! Top speed 80mph and can go for 93 miles.  If you wanna read more, go here.

So I know some of you are thinking, "There is no way that everyone will want to get this car," or "It is going to cost too much money."  You're right.  I am assuming that all of my ideas would either take many years to assimilate, or an infinite budget.  After some math and statistics, to replace every car, not including heavy machinery and work trucks, would cost somewhere in the range of 632 trillion dollars. So yeah, not happening instantaneously. 

The reason this is going to cost so much is because for this idea to work, it would have to happen all at once.  This is because it is replacing something that is already in use.  If a million of these cars were made and bought, it wouldn't even put a dent in traffic because the majority of people would still have normal cars.  So instead of replacing and reworking space that is already in use, we have to find somewhere else that is empty that we can add to....

...Look Up.

Look at all that empty space up there!  It's just waiting to be used!  So...scientists out there, where are our Jetsons cars?

This, I think, would be the ideal and most realistic way to go.  Other ideas that I have had aren't going to get anywhere anytime soon.  How about teleportation like in Star Trek or the tube in Futurama? If there were flying cars, people would be able to adopt them at their leisure, or when they can afford them.  And many people would want one because there wouldn't be many people out there using them.  So we are just waiting on the scientists and engineers of the world to actually come up with something that works that can be used by people on a regular basis.  I sincerely believe that this will happen in the next few decades.  With the exponential rate that the population is raising, we have to do something.  You guys have any ideas?