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CARtoon vignettes inspired by incidents from previous generations



1. I AM INVINCIBLE
A person speeding recklessly through traffic in a little Honda civic, with a balloon above their head, thinking that they are in a tank. Caption at the bottom says, "When I'm behind the wheel, nothing can harm me."
inspired by Caroline Balatico

2. WE ALWAYS WANT MORE POWER
A man is at a car dealership and the salesman is telling him all the features of the car. The man is not paying attention to anything that the other salesman is saying and interrupts him and says, OK, OK, but how fast can it go?"
inspired by Kendall Matsuyoshi

3. DRIVING SPEED LIMIT CAN BE DANGEROUS
Everyone is tailgating and honking their horn at this one car in front and eventually everyone zooms around him and the driver stares at his speedometer and sees that he is going speed limit. He says, "gees some people are in such a hurry."
inspired by Braden Kato

4. SPEED LIMITS ARE TOO LOW
A car is doing 120 as he passes a 20 MPH sign, and the driver thinks to himself, "The speed limit is set too low."
inspired by Berna Collado

5. I'M INVISIBLE
An old grandma accidentally cuts someone off, and so to retaliate, they flip her off and speed off. The poor old lady is horrified while the driver thinks nothing is wrong.
inspired by Michelle Ota's homepage, as she cites an anonymous person who says, "I tend to think that other people can't see me, or if they do, I'll never see them again, so rude gestures are OK (as long as I speed off really fast")

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