It is rumored that a bi-partisan bill, which has also been promoted by the National Safety Review Board, will be introduced in the House and the Senate requiring the wearing of helmets inside your car. The proposed measure has wide support in both Houses and is being heavily lobbied by the Helmet Industry.

As one of the sponsors noted to the media: "Helmets worn inside the car will save lives and will open the possibility of developing new designs and capabilities which, naturally, will create high paying jobs".

Companies that produce high quality audio and telecommunication equipment are lining up to introduce new concepts, which among other things, will forever remove the peril of hand held cell phones. How often have you been forced to emergency driving maneuvers in your car because some "bimbo" (male or female) was swerving at high speed in heavy traffic while talking on the cell phone and simultaneously sipping on a "frappuccino"?

And think of other possibilities: downloading music directly into your "on your head device", listening to your GPS System telling you when to turn (and NOT into the next coffee shop) and getting a pizza to go, with pepperoni naturally, from Vito on-the Park.

Predictably there are detractors of the proposed bill. Disgruntled people who are miffed about their God given right to fly through the windshield in spite of all the air bags around them.

In deference to some rather powerful lobbying and voting groups some exceptions are being considered. One of the most significant exceptions is being considered for truck drivers. Specially targeted are those who drive 18-wheelers. They feel confident that they can do without the helmets as they are able to crush any normal automobile. Regrettably they have also trying to repeal some laws of physics, particularly Newton's Laws of Motion, that is, and the notion of kinetic energy all of which place the truck drivers at risk when they hit one another.

Somehow there is a feeling that, if this exception is left in the Bill, there will be a great rush to purchase 18-wheelers and avoid the financial burden to purchase helmets for the whole family (and what about the pets?). Of course we know from what was said above that "high paying jobs will be created".

The President has not expressed a final opinion on the matter, as he is preoccupied with more important issues such as dealing with clearing land. In reality there is a fair amount of skepticism that this approach to safer driving will be superior to the low-tech approach of being a careful, defensive and rule abiding driver. But then people of that sort probably are from the period in history when cars did not have seat belts and the seats were bench seats, and one could make out in the front as well as the back of the car.

Somehow people survived in those days, though the carnage on the roads was no worse then it is now, and children grew up riding in the back seat of the car without seat belts and they survived too. It might be too cynical to say that in those days there were only good drivers, the bad ones had been "deleted" from the roads.